The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-07
ASSASSINS AT CHINESE PLAY.
HIP SINGSKILL TWOuMEN IN TONG
FIGHT IN THE THEATER.

| HOHT IN THE THEAIEH.
Explode Flrecrackers a. Signal or to
4. Mask tho Gunflre, and Then Eight or
Ten OF Them start tho Murder Gano
Hit 4 Men, Dead-lO Arrested.
The dingy little Chinese theater in Doyers
street, just around the corner from the
Bowery, was the battle-ground Of the longs
last night. Trouble broke loose at 10
o'clock, when Chinatown was packed with
sightseers. and when IL was all over two
dead Cinnamon were in the Hudson street
hospital. with two 80 badly hurt that they
may die.
The Hip Sing Tong got revenge good
and plenty for their many defeats at the
hands Of old Tom Lees On Leong Tongers.
The dead Cinnamon and the two hat are
badly hurt belong to the On Leong Tong.
The dirty. smoky little theater was
jammed with Cinnamon from all over
Greater New York last night smoking
| cigarettes on the straight backed benches.
seeing the play, "The Kings Daughter
that has been running for months with
only the a3Ath act completed. and listening
to the jangling, Earring uIusio.
Oddly enough there weren't any white
people in the theater, although 1t was SUM-
day night, when the rubberneoks usually
| 60 to the theater In droves. There wasn't
| q policeman in tho house when tho guns
began to crack. Ono had been there,
Young Of the Elizabeth street station, but
he was called out by two Of Eggers's men
| who wSTe gumshoeing through the quar-
ter locking for pie-gow, dominoes and
| other sinful things. There were probably
500 Cinnamon in the house and they came
from most Of the laundries in Manhattan,
The Bronx and Jersey City.
During the cunning Of the past between
DR.. Parkhurst's Hip Sing friends and the
! On Leong Tong; the Chinese theater has
been neutral ground, and no matter how
many fights and gunplays there were In the
rest OF Chinatown, It was always safe for
all Tong men to 60 to the theater and bury
the Ratchet while Watching the show. The
Hip Sing Tong has Knocked that precedent.
all to smash.
Last night; as usual; the audience was
pretty evenly divided between Hip Sing
Tong and On Leong Tong. The orchestra
was beating out its ear raoking music and
the actors In .The Kings Daughter" were
droning away In most exciting scene.
The air was blue from tho smoke Of
cigarettes.
Suddenly, q lean Chinaman; wearing q
brown jacket Of oiloloth jumped from his
seat, pulled string Of firecraokers out Of
his pocket and touched them of. He
threw them on the stage and they went to
popping. craokety bang.
When the crackers got to going good
and the Cinnamon in thetheater were scream
ing with excitement, lodging under benches
or making break for tho door to Doyers
street, tho Hip Sing men jerked long pistols
from their pockets and began to bang away
Before the Arecracker scene they must
have marked their men with care and OBJ
served just whore they sat where "A
bullet would get to them. Eight or ten
Hip Sing men had revolvers out and were
shooting carefully at first. Four men went
down at the first volley and lay on the floor
Of the theater, trampled on by the yellow
men that were doing their best to get out
Of the house. The assassins kept on firing,
and the only wonder Is that a dozen weren't
ready for the hospital when they quit.
: The Tong men Of On Leong were caught
mapping, mainly, said Gin Gum, their 500
rotary and old Tom Lees right hand man,
because they never thought Hip Sing would
try to do them up inside the theater. But
they had their own guns out as soon az they
recovered from the surprise and the set
back and went after Hip Sing men with
blood in their eye.
They were too late to do much good for
themselves and they bagged nobody.
Not a Hip Sing man got scratch,
though several showed up at the police
station with their jackets burned with
powder and powder marks ON their hands
and faces.
Just about the time that the On I.eonfY
brethren got their nerve back and their
pistols popping and the hullabaloo In the
theater was deafening, Young and the
two Eggers detectives Sackett and Black,
got to the Doyers street door. The crowd
from the Bowery pushed into Doyers street
pell nell, sailors, a marine or two women
from the wine rooms above Bowery grog-
geries and all the rag tag and bobtail Of the
street after dark, all excited and bound to
see what fun was going on.
The three cops were blocked at the door
by the rush Of Cinnamon making break
for the street. For two or three minutes
the three were swept OF their feet by the
avalanche, although not one Of the fleeing
Cinnamon made q move to shootat them
or to strike blow.
1t was found when the police got In that
four men were on the door, two Of whom
have since died. The dead are Ii Yook,
SO years old, grpceryman Of Doyers street,
shot four times in tho chest, once in left |
arm. He died IN the ambulance. ING
Sing OF 10 Doyers street was shot once in
the right temple. He died In hospital. !
There were ten arrests.