The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-09
CHIC UNG'S NEGRO WIFE DEAD,
AND TIE CHTN4M4N'S IN IAN
on A MURDER CHARGE.
Hut She Had Other Lovers and the Police
Are Far From Certain That Cho Killed
fIer-He Met Her, lie says. at a
Colored school in south Carolina

toiOreu SchOol IN SCUM carolina.
Che ing. whose Americanized name
is Charlie Young. was taken to the East
1Oith street station Yesterday charged
with the murder of his wife. Daisy. negro
woman, at their home, 125 East l26th street.
Neither the Coroner. the police nor the
District Attorneys office is satisfied that
Cho ing is really the murderer of his wife
! The Chinese are usually very good TO their
women.
But Daisy wasn't as good as she mi ght
have been The police found at least one
man yesterday who could satisfy them
OF that He was a grocery store clerk
named Kelly. Daisy Young bought gro
ceries OF him. he came To deliver the
groceries himself-and when the police
doubted Che Ung's guilt Kelly was the first
man to whom they turned.
Cho ING and Kelly were not the only
men who made themselves at home in
Daisy's fat There were at least three
others One of them, the police have rea
son to believe, was negro. At least Daisy
used the name Juanita sometimes, and
was in the habit Of saying that one, of her
Cuban friends, dark gentleman liked
her better by that name.
Cho ing went home yesterday morning
early and couldn't get into his fiat He
went out and hired locksmith, and with
the locksmith's aid opened the door All
the other tenants of the hathouse. who we're
negroes came and watched the locksmlth.
With Che ING they entered when the door
was opened. They found Daisy on couch
in the frat ono Of the three little rooms.
She was lying on the couch with her head
on the floor. Her throat was cut from ear
TO ear. She was n little bit of a woman.
rather pretty, with very light yellow skin.
At once on the discovery Of the body
there was a wild yell of the negroes of the
house for the police who at once arrested
Cho ing. Was he not the woman hus-
band? Was she not dead? Cho ing did
not undertake to set up IN his defence that
no Chinaman in this country,s criminal
annals was ever known TO Kill his woman,
were she black. white or yellow. He took
his fate and went his way to the police
station in silence.
From the neighbors the police got Kelly's
name and that of ono or two others. They
examined Kelly and let him 60 last night.
They hoped TO get hold Of the others before
this morning.
Che ing, when his story came to be eN-
amned, told a very plain tale. He said
that he had come from China To South
Carolina There a rich white woman,
whose name he would not give, had bo-
come interested in him and had sent him
10 a negro school in Greenvlle. In that
school he met Daisy and fell in love with
her.
You know he said to the Coroner and
TO the District Attorney, what they think
about the black people. Therefore when
fell in love with her ] came 10 New York ~
Cho earned IS a week and sometimes
50 as a laundry laborer. He was regularly
employed at Eighth avenue and l2jth
street. He said that he had not been home
since Thursday afternoon. He got through |
work at midnight each night and was eX-
pected TO get at his job again by each |
morning, and he thought it easier 10 go to |
sleep on his laundry table than 10 go home. |
On Friday night al midnight, he sHid, |
he went home and tried TO get into the |
fat. He concluded that his wife was out |
when she did not answer his knocking and |
went around 10 his friends laundry at |
Lexington avenue and Ninety seventh street |
and stayed there After yesterday morn
ing's attempt to get into the place he got |
the loCksmith.
story came to the police from tenants |
in the house that nj about midnight Fri /
day there was the sound of a fight in Daisy |
Young's flat and that the door was shut /
and opened several times in the early morn /
ing: that deep groans were heard and the |
sound of running water in the kitchen sink, |
and that there was no sound from then Z
until yesterday morning when Che ing |
tried to get in.
Assistant District Attorney Caravan,
Capt Brennan and Coroner jackson
were all working until early this morn
ing in the effort to get some clue to the
real murderer OF Daisy Young None of
them seemed TO have any definite acousa-
ton TO make against the woman's Chinese
husband