The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-13
l0HGMIDNIGHY MURDERSQUAD
/uINAMEN GLIDE BY IS ENGINES
noon TO BUTCHER HOP LEE.
Flrcmen ma Policemen Soon on Their
Heels and Get Three Of the Five After
chase Over Roofs-Supposed to he On
Leong Tong's Vengeance on HID Sings.

IeOng TOngs Nengeanco on HID sings.
Lee Poy. cousin Of Lee Toy. collector
for old Tom Lee, head Of the On Leong
Tong. ia out on 5000 bail. and Charley
.Ioe OF IOl Ninth avenue Is locked up In
the Tombs, charged with numbering Hop
Lee, a Hip Sing Tong man. There Is also
murder charge against Mo Wong, who is
in Bellevue Hospital with several broken
ribs Mo Wong belongs to the On Leong
Tong and lives across the street from The
tong headquarters, at IA Mott street.
They killed Hop Lee In his laundry, at
zoo East Eleventh street. butchering him
with a short meat cleaver. almost under
the nose Of a policeman There were Eve
Of them, the police say that had the Job Of
killing Hop Lee In revenge for the murders
that the allies Of the Parkhurst society
committed last Sunday night In the Chinese
Theater
Hop Lee was not fighting man and
80 far as is known was not mixed up In any
Of the Chinatown killings, but Tom Lee's
men knew him as a sohemer and q friend Of
Mock Duck, who was arrested after the
assassinations in the playhouse and IL now
out on bail.
Pistols are noisy. A meat cleaver II
very effective in the hands Of q skilful
artist When Hop Leo died In Bellevue
there were fifteen wounds on him. and his
nose was gone. The murderers had less
than five minutes to work In.
1t was about o'clock yesterday morning
tina, five Cinnamon shufaed along East
Eleventh street past the house Of Engine
IS, keeping out Of the bright light that
streamed through a saloon window. -Four
OF them wore blouses. baggy trousers
and felt sandals. but Lee Poy wore Ameri-
can clothes. Charley Smith. the engine
company's buff, who was sitting on the
chain in front OF the fire house, saw them
glide past and when Policeman Drescher
OF the Union Market station came along
a minute or two later Smith pointed the
Cinnamon out to him.
Il saw EN- in Tompkins Square said
Drescher. IN get around the corner and
you keep an eye on them
The Cinnamon had stopped when one
of them saw the policeman, but as soon as
he turned the corner lazily, with an as
sumption Of indifference, they streaked 1t
for the door Of Hop Lees laundry half a
block from the engine house. They hit
the door all together and the lock gave way.
r.nith saw them 60 in, and he waited for
E,rescher to appear. When the policeman
poxed his head around the corner Smith
told him what was up.
Drescher lost no time then. but he was
late by fifteen swings Of a cleaver. Hop
Lee was asleep, probably when the muir
derers broke into the dark little laundry,
and they went for him quick as cats. They
dragged him out OF bed, threw him on his
ironing board and hold him down. From
the look Of things there were two tong men
at his head, two at his feet and another
scientifically welding Hop Lees own
ceaver.
They might have killed him at ono blow.
but they Clipped pieces of him. beginning
with his nose. Then they worked from his
head to his feet, and the laundry was not
pretty when Dresoher ran In with fireman
or two from the engine company. The
men Of company % slid down the polo In .
hurry and poured into the street whom their
buff told them what he had seen.
The assassins had disappeared whom
Drescher found Hop Leo groaning in The
dark, not dead but nearly. The police
man went UP the stairs OF the five story
building on the jump and found two China
men on the roof. One Of them ran to the
edge Of the roof and jumped across = i've
foot gap to the other building. Tho other
ran around the edge Of the roof trying to
find Q way Of escape. Dresoher hadn't .
club and didn't want to shoot. He went at
the Chinaman with his fsts and tho yellow
man closed with him. They fought on
the edge Of the roof for two OF three minutes
before Drescher knocked the Chinaman
senseless. 1t was Charley Joe.
Lee Poy was the one who jumped the
five foot space between the buildings.
Then he ran north on the roof and took
twenty foot drop to the roof Of the next
building. He was up against 1t there and
had to 60 down through the scuttle. Tho
Aremen, who were In the game for al 1t
was worth, were waiting for him, and they
closed In on him. He struggled . second
or two. got black eye and gave up.
Fireman Eicher had used Dresoher's
club to rap for help. Policeman Blake
was there In minute or two, and then the
COPS began to como in squads. Tho whole
neighborhood, largely Yiddish and Ger
man. was awake and excited, and Eleventh
street was full OF lightly clothed men and
women who didn't know what had hap
pened and were shouting at the top Of their
voices.
Leo Poy hadn't any moro than surren-
dered when Fireman Quinn raised the
whoop halloo. He saw q Chinaman creep
ing along an alley wall near the laundry,
going on all fours. He got to his feet when
he heard Quinn's yell and ran limping up
Avenue B to Thirteenth street. There the
hue and crv was after him full force and he
was nabbed at Avenue A. He was Mo
Wong. and he was badly hurt. In trying
TO escape when Drescher first broke In he
fell down fight Of stairs and broke two
ribs. Then he hid while the fighting on
the roof was going on, waited until Drescher
got into the street and got out through q
back door.
A Bellevue ambulance took Hop Lee to
the hospital. He was conscious, but Dying
fast The police got the prisoners 70 the
hospital Just before the Hip Sing man
died, but he was too far gone to notice any
Of them.
Yesterday morning Charley Joe and
Lee Poy we're arraigned before MAglstrate
Mott in the Essex Market court. ne re,
manded them to the Coroner without ban
and they were sent to the Tombs. Coroner
Brown held Charley Joe, but accepted ?e,OOO
bail for Lee Poy. Pasquale Caponign Wa y
bis surety. Caponigri Is banker az ~
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