The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-10
FAN.TAN RADAFGRCE
on LEONGs GO FREE-TROUBLE
FOR CLUBBING COPS.

70 Evidence Whatever 70 BACK Up spec
taoular Arrests, on Easter sunday
Ing P0nE's CORY Exhlblt0-WAntOn
Attack on ChineHe--DIHerSnt Ideas.
Tho curtain was rung down yesterday
on tho farce act OF the Mott street Chinese
drama entitled tom Lee. the Gambling
King Mock Duck, the villain, Ia foiled.
The police, who play the lnockabout comedy
Fart, got Il again.
The eighteen prisoners charged With
gambling selected from the $50 whom Capt.
Eggers gathered In his Easter Sunday raid,
were turned loobe 10 gamble az they list.
All tho Chinese cases except Tom Lees
and two charges OF carrying concealed
weapons we're cleaned up and not prisoner
was held. Mon Nun and Ing Pong, charged
with assaulting Ohicers Hamilton and
Murray, we're also set free, and the Court
hinted IN turning them looee that II any
one deserved 10 be held Il was the two
officers.
Peace and smiles hover over On LecuF
headquarters. The gamblers aJo getting
out their little pie-gow doHtnpes and touch
ing up the fan-tan layoufs With fresh paint.
Only about Hip Sing headquarters, where
Mock Duck, the gunfEhter. and Jim Wang
alias Wong Sang, the sanity Sunday school
teacher, cit planning more moves, Is there
gloom. Reinsurance rates on Nook and
Jim arc rising,
The cases OF the eighteen gamblers were
called yesterday morning by Magistrate
Moss. II was decided 10 make test case
Of Lee Wsh. Jim Wang had his Chinese
stool pigeons there 70 testify that Lee had
been seen buckmg the Oriental tiger in bis
Monaghan lair. Gin Gum, secretary Of the
On Ieongs and Tom Lees fsctot rl sat
with the defendant, taking lively interest
IN the proceedings Assistant District
Attorney Lord appeared for the people
and District Attorney Jerome was In court.
When Lee Wah's case was called Jerome
rose.
Eve will leave this case to you" he said
we have gone into the matter and find
that II will be hard TO secure a conviction.
Gambling and disorder exist In Chinatown
but the customs and ideas Of these people
differ from ours. II Is extremely difficult
20 get at the truth from their testimony
Your Honor has gone into the case carefully,
and while do not want to shirk response
hility l will take your judgment as abso-
htely fair. II you hold the prisoners /
will prosecute them
Magistrate Moss, who has been holding
star chamber sessions both with Lee Wah
and the Hip Sing bearers of light, replied:
In my Judgment there IL not the slight
est chance Of conviction. The case against
Lee Wah Is dismissed. Is there any better
evidence against the other seventeen? ?"
There is not, said Lord.
Then shall order them all dismissed
sSou,eLhing ought to be done about the
moomPstency Of the Eggers men, said %.
Frank Lloyd, attorney for the On Leongs.
"Oh, as for that answered Jerome;
"there ia as much difference between police
men as there Is between Cinnamon.
Two Eggers men got theirs few minutes
later. On the night Of April q Detectives
Hamilton and Murray OF the Headquarters
q warrant and began to search for weapons,
moved thereto by highlander scare a
their own, When the Chinese prot ed
they cracked The scalps Of Ing Pong and
Mon Nun with blackjacks and pulled
every one In sight, Notwithstanding the
fact that both Chinese had 90 60 TO the
hospital, they we're charged with assault.
ing officers OF the law.
They came at US, = said the detectives,
sand We cracked them.s
Pat OsKeefA and Willard. Modotrtg Wh tie
residents OF Cherry street, testified that tbs y
cav the row. They declared that The two
Cinnamon had offered no violence 70 the
officers, but were only protesting.
i saw one Of these detectives grab a
ChinAman by the throat, hang his head
against the wall and kick him into the
street, said O'Keefe.
Ing Pong sfiIl wore the bloody bandages
on his injured head. With hce eye for effect,
he wore also the shirt which was stained
with his blood on the night OF the assault.
These Officers are the ones who should
be charged with assault said Mr.. Lord
after the court adjourned.
The Eggers men destroyed lot Of prop
erty by smashing doors and tables on the
night Of the big raid, said Lloyd. 1T Ia a
shame, but my clients have no redress.
/ shall probably bring charges against
Hamilton and Murray
Tom Lees case was set over to next