The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-22
TONG WAR WORRIES EGGERS.
CUIN4TOWN'S CZAR GIVES HIS
MEN SOME PLAIN TALK.
Tho sunday Night shooting Gave the
Elizabeth street Police Their Chance
rom Su Held In the Hope That Some
Cnc May Yet Tell q straight story.

Acting captain ERReIs, the o"'' VI
Chinatown, was hot under the collar yester-
day. He called into his Office at Police
Headquarters the men OF his Chinatown
squad and asked them point blank why
the regular Sunday night gun fights between
the ON Leong Tong and Hep Sing Tong
couldn't lie stopped Then he told them
that !. they weren't careful they would
hear something drop.
Chinatowns boss was particularly sore
because the shooting at Is Pell street Sun
tiay night took place under the noses OF
his roundsnan, Costigan. and Seaman
and Murray. the two plain clothes men, ana
It eavo Acting Captain Tracy OF the Eliza
beth street station chance to laugh at him.
Chinatown Is In Tracy's precinct.
Eggers heard about the neat trick worried
Sunday night by old Tom Lees Ratchet
men when detail shot OF pistols and
made all the racket possible on the roof
of IS Mott street, drawing the police there
thus giving another bunch plenty OF time TO
break in upon the twelve cousins OF HUE
Chung Yok at lS Peli.
1t didn't make Eggers any happier when
he learned that Capt Tracys men beat his
own sleuths on the job and were in among
the wounded Cinnamon before Costigan
and the two plain clothes men found out
where the shooting was.
When Commissioner McAdoo went away
on his vacation he made Acting Captain
, Eerers Car of Chinatown and gave him
instructions to hold the lid down tight.
The Elizabeth street station cops we're told
that they we're out OF the game and that
Essers was the real thing. Since the Com
missioners departure three Cinnamon
have been shot to death and at least five
wounded and the tong war is worse than
ever.
Tom Su, the crosseyed laundryman OF
$50 Washington street, who was arrested
on Sunday night, was arraigned in the
Tomhs court yesterday morning charged
with shooting HUE Chong Yu and HUE
Wong.
HUE Chong Yu, who may die from his
hurts, is in the Hudson street hospital, and
HUE Wong is in Bellevue. They have
identified Tom Su as one Of the men who
broke in on their pea ceful tea party on the
third floor of IS Pell street. Lee 10y,
secretary of the On Leong Tong. gravely
told Me- gistrate Finn that the shooting was
the work of the wicked Hep Sings, and
that the cousins of HUE were friendly to
Tom Lees men, From the seven Huies
that we're arrested Sunday night mighty
little could be got.
The Rev. HUE Kim. however, spoke
up in court HUE Kim is head OF the Chi
nese Presbyterian mission and came pretty
nearly being edde<. TO the On Leong Tong
game bag last spring. A bullet whizzed
by his head az he pessed through Mott
street and q few minutes later big China
man was at him with a knife. The police
saved HUE Kim, but he cherished revenge.
He told Magistrate Finn that the Pell
street gunplay was the work of the On
Leopz Tong. Tom Lee. said he, wished
to scotch HUE Chung Yok, his brother
and q man ebove all evil. Therefore the
On LeonR Tong Ratchet men fret drew
the police off and then shot all they could.
HUE Chung Yok is treasurer Of the Hep
Ma gistrste Finn decided to hold Tom
su in 81, COO bail, hoping that the tangled
tale would be Strengthened out somehow.
snd the best looking Cinnamon in Greater
New York, and on whose head q price OF
5000 is set by the On Leong Tong. was
very busy at IL Bowery yesterday Gfter-
roon. The dark. dirty building, every
Is the headquarters Of the Hep Sing Tong,
the good friends Of DR.. Parkhurst. Mock
WIS on the third floor in the temple room
and grinning god looked out upon some.
thing very like conference. Mock smiled
and withdrew to the hall. Jim Wang came
with him.
MOCK, who speaks English perfectly.
told what he said was q straight story OF
Sunday nights bloodletting. The cousins
Of HUE Chung Yok, said Mock, do not be-
very friendly-and have refused to ally
themselves with Tom Lee. Also, said Mock,
they know enough about the doings OF On
Leong Tong hatchetmen to hang few
II they spoke out. SO the On Leong planned
to kill them and to put the Hep Sing men in
hole at the Sc me time.
'Ghey planned the thing beautifully, eaid
Meek. hey wanted to draw the police,
then kill every soul In HUE Chung Yok's
room and get away. Afterward, when the
live Ruies to tell tales, they planned to come
TACK, claim the Huies as their own friends
and lay the murders to the Hep Sing Tong.
he scheme failed, said Mock Duck, be.
cause they didn't kill. Jim Wang nodded
at every GoT 6 n Tong
will get YOU sooner or later?" Mock was
asked.
Not on your life," eaid Mock with
laugh: Look He screwed his pleasant
a tsSs into s, d05 Maas srTSsSs s, asy
me. After the fight in the Chinese Iheater,
when the police took me to the Elizabeth
street station, looked out on roomful
OF Ion Lees dried shrimpe. made face
at them, and every man turned his back
or sided to the rear room.
- Old Tom Lee is sick with the grip at II
Mott street and Gin Gum does what talking
there is to do for On Leong Tong-and there
isn't much Of that.
Il dunno" said Gin Gum. .on Leong
Tong no shoot fom loot is Mott or IS Pell.
HUE Chung Yok f1end OF Tom Lee. Mebbe
Hep Sing. mebbe not, dunno"
Capt. Tracy's men believe that there will
be another battle next Sunday night and
that the Hep Sing folks are planning to
get even for the shooting Of the Huies as
well as the butchering Of little Hip Lee in
East Eleventh street a week ago. The score
ior the past two weeks Is: On Leong, three
dead, two wounded; Hep Sing, one dead,
!our wounded, The big bulletin board at
Pell and Doyers streets has . signif-
cant row OF hentracks, which freely trans
lated is
Members CT the Hep Sing Tong on whose
heaos price Of 81 600 IL set are warned TO
remain OF the streets this week"
The Chinese Government Is disturbed
over the war between the On Leong Tong
ana the Hep Sing Tong, which has resulted
~ several Chinatown killings. Shah Kaifu.
Ine Chinese Consul. and LUX Wing, the
Nlce-Consul called at the District Attorneys