New-York tribune., 1905-08-21
ON LE0NG TONG'S INNING.
SCORES ON HIP SING.
tChiromen U'ounded in ReUenge for
Theatre Shooting.

The expected sequel to the battle of the
Doyers Street Theatre. in which the On Leong
Tong went down to defeat. came off last night
according to schedule. Two of the wounded in
the Hudson-st hospital. after the skirmish.
identified one Tom Su.. of No. 652 Washington
St. one OF the braves who had helped fill
them with lead
Ever since the fight of two weeks ago the On
Leong Tong have been planning. not only for
revenge. but to remove certain witnesses
against them, Of whose pernicious activity they
disapproved. One man carved TO death in
his laundry. That helped a little. The plans
were brought to a focus last night. Shortly
before 8 o'clock three shots were heard
from the roof Of the building at No.
| Is Doyers-st A few moments later some
more shots were heard in the building at No.
IL Pell-st. This was only about two minutes
before the real affair of the evening, and not
! only attracted the attention of the police. but
| also, ii whispered in the tortuous passages
of Chinatown. squared one or two old accounts
in favor of the On Leongs. AT any rate. the
police discovered nothing. except that they had
been bluffed.
About that time, but a little later, four husky
On Leong-Tong hatchetmen. with their caps
drawn over their foreheads. followed each other
pigtaiIs up the three flights of narrow stairs, at
No. IS Pell-st.. leading to room.
There sat twelve bland visaged Hip Sing mem
bers. gravely devsing new methods of hoistinG
the mortality records of the On Leong Tong.
Feeling secure. they had left the door unfast-
ened In a minute the gravity and peacefulness
of the assemblage was rudely disturbed. The
On Leong Tong men entered without knocking.
Twelve Chinese faces lost their blandness as
their owners sought refuge under chairs and ia
bles
The invaders opened fire with less ceremony
Dr.
Of Brooklyn, got two bullets through the body,
and Hu Yon Yuck winged and hipped, an
other slug, a "A. hitting him in the back he
convulsvely spun around, when the greater part
of his hand disappeared. They vii! be able to
leave the hospital in two three days
The four marksmen. keeping their eyes shut.
fired few more shots and then took the stairs
to Pell-st. in three jumps. There they disap-
peared.
One two of the Hip Sings were just crawling
out from the sheltered security of oaken tables
and preparing TO bolt, when Patrolman Noonan.
of the 10Th Precinct. detailed to Acting Cap
tain Eggers's Chinatown squad. ran upstairs
followed by Patrolman Reagan. also of the
Eggers squad. Noonan rounded up the dozen
Cinnamon with complexions like a rather dirty
piece of gray blotting paper, in one corner. and
while Reagan mounted guard, got in some eff
cient. If impromptu. FIRST aid work Wa
Wong and HUE Yon Yuck. who quickly
bleeding to death and wailing loud and bitterly,
Noonans prompt work saved their lives. for the
present at least.
In few minutes the rest OF Eggerss squad
was engaged in driving hack the crowd of sight
seers from uptown who wanted to stand in the
place nearest where there was likelihood of
few more shots They retired 10 the Bowery
before the onslaught of Pounds" the police
dog. who is a whole platoon in himself The
natives. wiser in their generation. kept well out
Of sight in dusly doorways and unlighted alleys
and passages. In the hallway of the Hip Sing
| headquarters. in the Bowery. one or two
Cinnamon could be seen away back in the shad-
ows. but they took good care not to pose under
the limelight, or any other, TO any extent
When the ambulance surgeon arrived from the
Hudson-st. House of Relief the little back room
in Pell-st. was full of blood. smoke. wounded
Cinnamon and overturned furniture. The
surgeon patched up Wong and Yuck enough TO
have them carried to the hospital, where they
will probably die None of the others were
seriously enough wounded 10 need a trip else
where than TO the Elizabeth-st. station, where
eight of them finally went What little English
all Of them knew had either been frightened
out Of them carefully concealed. OF
the men who did the shooting they knew. so they
insisted the police absolutely nothing
wouldn't even know them If they met them in
a dark alley and had one OF their favorite long
blue .44's up their flowing sleeves.
So far the police could learn, the cutting
ont expedition dropped their guns on the stairs
as they fed. where they were quickly found
by 'lolligobs" and Cinnamon. The party dashed
across the street TO No. Il Pe-st.. upstairs and
across the roofs, descending into Doyer-st to
mingle with the crowd and ask what the deuce
those foreign devils were up to, anyway.
sbutting into a strictly family affair.
The worst injured of the prisoners taken 10
the ELIZA beth-st station were HUE Yee of No
901 East 56th-st. who winged in the thigh
and Huie See. VINO had bullethoes through his
ri9bt arm and thigh. The others, all Cantonese
ianndrvmen were HUE Fong. HUE Dock HUE
Lung HUE Chung and HUE Lin.
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