Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-27
TELLS GRUESOME TALE
Mrs. May Coon Sing Fleeing
for Her Life.
FEARS HIGHBINDER.S
SAYS NEW YORK CHINAMEN
WANT TO KILL HER.
Talks Freely to Star Reporter of Man
ner in Which Women Are
Disposed Of.

| Onlndlnan, passed tnrOugn wash
ington this morning, fleeing from
highbinders in New York, who, she
claims, desire to kill her. She tells
story that may throw much light
on the dress-suit mysteries that have
mystifed the New York police.
Fleeing for her life from Chinese high
binders in New York, as she stated it, Mrs
| May Coon Sing, the white wife of noted
Chinaman in the metropolis, stopped long
enough in Washington today to make some
| startling disclosures to Star reporter One
| of her statements if true, may result in
unraveling the Boston dress suit case mys-
| terry and other recent happenings of a
similar nature that have startled the entire
| country.
In answer to telephone call from the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad depot ABOUT
$50 O'Clock this morning, a Star reporter
went to that place and found in the ladies'
waiting room a comely young woman,
rather neatly attired who said she had
sent the message because she had decided
that it was her duty to make public some
of the awful happenings that had come
uHuST HeE immaculate observation While Sfc
was living with her Chinese husband
Woong Coon Sing, the keeper of a cigar
store at Is Mott street
My Christian name" she said "is Lucy
Rosebury and my home is at Littleton, w.
Va. l went to New York several years ago
very foolishly, as many country girls do,
to seek my fortune in that busy and bus
Ting city. l have a fair education, and
believed l could find remunerative work.
| became acquainted with Woong Coon
Sing who is first lieutenant of Tom Lee
known as the mayor of Chinatown. He
taught me how to smoke opium, and while
under the influence of that seductive drug
l married him. I speak Chinese like
a native, and consequently came in DOS
session OF many of the secrets Of the high
binders and other death-dealing organiza-
tlons of ceiestials in New York
Reasons for Flight.
1t is because of my knowledge of the
Chinese language and of these secrets that
l was compelled to fly from that city, and
L determined to return to my, people In
West Virginia, where / feel that I will be
safe. I know that should return to New
York my life would not be worth a pin, and
l was advised by a friendly Chinaman to
get away from there as soon as possible
which l did.
You may not believe it, but L have seen
the white wives of Cinnamon who knew too
much killed and their bodies cut I'M and
sent away from that city The yellow suit
case recently found with a Woman's torso
IN 1t was no doubt the wife of some China
man who had come into possession of some
OF the dread secrets of their murderous So
ceties, and who may have threatened dur-.
ing a quarrel with her Mongolian husband
TO tell the police of what she knew The
dress suit case is favorite means of dis
posing or the chopped up remains of their
victims. who have previously been so badly
mutilated that their best friends could NOT
recognize them. The body of a victim or q
part OF IT, after being packed in the dress
suit case, will be taken by some Innocent
looking Chimes laundryman and carried as
MS baggage on the railroad train to his des
tlnation, where he will be assisted in dis
posins OF IL by some equally innocent-ap-
peaf1ng laundryman, far from the scene of
the tragedy. 1t is no wonder therafora
that the police authorities are mystified IN
securing clues to the identity of the victim
anu iiioiihatioh concerning the murderer"
Four Women Disposed Of.
1 have seen four American women dis
poseo OF IN TINS manner. They We're all the
wives of Cinnamon. One of these WAC
known as 'Sheeny Annie The Cinnamon
gave 1t out that she had gone to Boston
atter her disappearance. But 1 know that
after she had been murdered and her body
was buried either in the back yard or the
rear hallway of a Mott street house No
10, beHeVe, the remains were afterward
dlslnterred and sent by express to Chicago
Oinefs VINO We're done away with were
giri named Mamie, who they called Crazy
Mamie and another one who was known
as Hockway Mary These girls were heard
crying and screaming, and that was the
last ever heard or seen of them
II Is my candid opinion that IL the
ponce VIII only make the proper effort that
the Boston dress-suft-case mystery will be
cleared up and the perpetrators of the act
found to be Mongolian inmates of New
Yorks Chinatown. The Cinnamon who are
iphh
that they fool the police because as they
say. cinnamon never talkee.' It is be-
cause their American wives can talk both
Chinese and English, and will talk IF oc-
casion demands, that they are murdered
and their bodies disposed of in such man
ner that the perpetrators of the foul crimes
are never brought to Justice"
Mrs May Coon Sing otherwise Jucv
Rosebury, gave other startling details Of
crime and the operations of the highbind
ers In New York's Chinatown, which she
declared ought to be investigated by the
police of that city. She said in addition to
the four American women that had been
murdered to her knowledge a Japanese
woman from San Francisco. who came to
New York and married a Chinaman and
who was charged with knowing too much
was similarly disposed of.
When / arrived in Washington" she
said something seemed to hold me here
and as regained my faculties after being
debauched with opium by my husband and
his friends I felt that / must tell the
American people or the horrors had wit
messed in Chinatown and to warn my sis
ters of the fate that overhangs those of
them who allow themselves to become the
wives of Cinnamon. now feel that I
have performed that duty, although 1t
may cost me my life. Yet 1t will be timely
and may save many other lives from the
assassins of the highbinders and from the
living death of the opium devotee.
The Chinese Sleuths.
She described the Chinese sleuths who are
employed by the Highbinders to watch ev-
cry suspected person and particularly the
police. When they find that policeman
or detective or other official on duty in
Chinatown cannot be bought, she said,
then they are watched so closely that tho
Cinnamon are often able to thwart pros-
pective arrests and raids. Mrs. Sing said
that she left New York in such hurry yes
terday that she did not take time to put
on her good clothes, but came away In her