The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-04
''DETECTIVE IS REAL THIEF. ;.
CHINATOWN WRITES TO WADOO
BEGGING FOR MERCY.

Eplstle says That Wherever Two or Three
Cinnamon Are Gathered Together
Detective Appears and Demands
! % Apiece Not TO Arrest Them All.
In his noon mail yesterday Commissioner
| McAdoo got q letter which interested him
very much. 1t was written in a pains
| takingly, clear hand and seemed to come
from Chinaman. Thus il ran:
NEW YoRE. April /. 1905
Mr. McAdoo:
DEAR SIR: AZ present times the Detective
Of Chinatown teTrorize and arrest every
Chinaman by they feel slik. know so many
Chi namen victim by them and take their
money away II refuse arrest follow one China
men reading a letter In his room they grab
him and arrested and took away and other
one was reading book in - Peni ~.
They go In the room brake the draw and
take all the money away and other one they
don't like his face get arrested II you give
them money let 80. The month OF March
about a hundred case like this. This is real
hell treat worse then dogs. II you don't
remove them they he rich men sure the police
men alright. but the detective Is real thief
black mailer and bruet and cruel. Yours
trulyl
| am swear TO God what saying is true. .
Mr.. McAdoo read it aloud to his callers
just before lunch time. They asked him
what he was going to do about il.
Il don't know, =" said he. Il have not had
time yet, receiving the letter only ten min
utes ago, TO investigate the system. Then
he added 'Of course, any man with
badge has every opportunity in the world
to take advantage Of these poor creatures
down there. They do not know the differ
enoe between a policeman and a black
mailing faker. and they are like 30 many
rocks flying from roost to roost and always
afraid to alight.'
Mr.. McAdoo withheld the name Of the
writer Of the letter. 1t was impaired in
confidence to some Of his visitors and one
OF them, a reporter. went down to China
town to look into the complaint on his own
account. The signature was one to which
fifteen or twenty men in Chinatown some
times answer. None answered II, how
ever, at the address given by Mr.. McAdoo's
correspondent. Nor would any Of the
recognized owners Of the name admit
command Of English oozed from them
visibly as soon as the Police Commissioner
was mentioned.
From one resident Of Chinatown,
Chinese who speaks English with the ut
most huency and II not afraid to do it,
Of the letter which may interest those
who think that the blackmailing Of which
Mr.. McAdoo's correspondent complains Il
done by imitation detectives. He began
talking under the impression that the re-
porter was from the District Attorneys
office, and when he discovered his mis-
take begged that his name be not printed
though be still stuck 10 the accuracy Of
his statements.
and holding up said he, are not takers.
The trouble has been going on for many
years. Whenever a pOltceman-deteCttye
needed money he would pretend to raid
a gambling house. Everybody must give
money-he always got his money-then
nobody was arrested and nobody was the
wiser because people down here are apart
from the rest Of the world and nothing Is
said. But then came the quarrel between
the societies. The police worked with the
gamblers 1.-THE On Leong TonRsl. The
other society. which Is all cutthroats.
Hin Sing Tongsl, tried TO get share OF
the money. The police sided with the
gamblers. The Parkhurst society took
sides with the cutthroats. There has been
nothing but terror here. II Il as the man
in the letter says-nothing but hell, Peace
able men like myself who wish that all
the members Of the societies could be taken
out to the ocean and drowned-we dodge
bullets. There is much printed about the
war in the papers. The District Attorney,
Mr. Jerome, BE takes sides too. He lets
Lee Roy, old Tom Lees own cousin, act
as an Interpreter in cases affecting the
Now all this is good for the detectives
They have excuses for many raids. in
every raid they catch lot Of Cinnamon
from out Of town, laundTymen mostly
who have come in for one nights social
pleasure among their own people, They
eat. they play cards Is IL a crime to play
cards with your friends9 Not unless you
are a ChinAman. The detectives break in.
Unless you pay them money you go 90 the
police station. The Magistrate knows you
are a liar, because you are Chineman.
SO he will punish you anyway. Why not
pay the policeman and save time and !
trouble? That Is how Il works. But now,
they are grown 20 bold that they 60 into
stores and into private homes. IL Is cheaper
TO submit than 10 resist or appeal 20 the
law. -
friend here one night on business There !
were four men playin & dominos in the room,
A number OF others were looking on and
talking and laughing. The police broke |
in. They said that Il was gambling room,
Everybody who did not pay 81 was TO be
arrested / got mad. ! got out in front !
OF the detectives and said:
81 am here on business and / came 10
go This man here. Now these men are
nlsyinR dominos-H they have a small
stake on the game Il u their business and
none OF yours or mine. These other men
are looking on, they are not even playing
only four men can play dominos at once.