The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-21
Four SHOT IN CHINATOWN.

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FIRING IN ANOTHER sTREET HAD
.., DECOYED THE POLICE. 30
wbl Tnoy were Around the Corner hattie
in PelI street Room Left Feur Men
Wounded-Ail OF the HUE Family. but
-. They Swear They Never Heard Of Tens
Six pistol shots fred from the roof OF Is
Mott street about O'Clock last night
formed the overture to Chinatown's regular
Sunday night entertainment, The six shots
meant nothing. They simply drew the
police to Mott street and left Pell street
free. Within a few minutes four Cinnamon
wore shot on tho third floor Of Is Poll street.
Two were seriously, and two slightly hurt
Tho streets Of Chinatown were packed
when the firing began in Mott street. In
front Of the On Leong Tong's headquarters,
at II Mott street, where old Tom Lee lives,
the sidewalk was alive with chattering men
who appeared to make themselves a. con-
spiouous as possible. Sightseers were
thick, dozens OF women among them,
walking along tho street or drinking tea
Two policemen were In front Of the On
Leong Tong house when the shots were
fred. They ran across the street and
rushed up the stairs Of Is to the roof. There
wasn't q Chinaman In sight and the only
sign Of tho pistol firing WAS the blue smoke.
Roundsman Costigan, Eggers's head man
In Chinatown, was In front Of the Chinese
theater. In Doyers street. when he heard
the shots. He ran to Mott street with
Detectives Seaman and Murray, and after
them came every policeman stationed In
Chinatown. ,,'
They searched is Mott street and the ad-
joining houses from cellar to garnet and all
they found was some dozens OF blank faced
Cinnamon who knew nothing and had
heard nothing. Across the street at ID
Mott street the On Leong Tong mon were
as ignorant. -,
While the police were clearing Mott street,
there was popping OF guns from around
the corner In Pell street. Policeman Clare
swung around on the run, yelling for some
body to call an ambulance and notify Eliza
beth street station to turn out tina reserves
on the jump.
there's room on the third floor Of 10
Pell that's regular slau ghter house, said
Clare.
Costiesn and his men ran into Pell street
and UP the stairs OF ls to the third floor.
The hallway was blue with smoke. so thick
that at first Costigan couldn't tell what
had happened. Then. in one Of half
dozen small rooms opening Oh the hall,
ne saw three Cinnamon on the floor Shrek
Ing with pain while eight or nine more were
wiping the blood from them and trying
to tie up wounds.
Another Chin man stood in the back OF
the room, meaning with pain and holding
his ri eht arm A tea table had been knocked
over, a bunk was upset and broken pipes
Uttered the floor. The back wall Of the
room was Clipped by bullets and 1t looked
as II fifteen or twenty shots had been f1reo.
Acting Captain Tracy OF the Elizabeth
street station got there about then, and
with Costigan closed the door OF the room
and held everybody inside prisoners.
Ono Of the Cinnamon on the floor, HUE
Chong Yu, would have bled to death then
and there II a policeman hadn't made q
rude tourniquet and stanched the flow
from his right arm. Dr. Merrill came from
the Hudson Street Hospital and took HUE
Chong Yu and HUE Wong, who was shot
In the thigh and right arm. to the hospital.
HUE Yee and Huie va were scratched by
bullets the first on the right shoulder and
tho other on the right hip. DR.. Merrill
patched them up on the spot.
HUE Hong Hing. who lives in the room.
told the police what had happene HUE
Hong Hing was giving tea party for his
cousins. There were Huies there from
Brooklyn, The Bronx and Manhattan. They
were sitting, said HUE Hong Hing peaceably
drinking tea, when the door was suddenly
burst open and four Cinnamon stood on
the threshold and began firing That was
about all the head Of the house Of HUE
could remember, for he dived under the
bunk.
He insisted that he didn't know who did
the shooting and wouldn be able to identify
ANYBODY. Neither. said he, did any Of the
family belong to q tong. He was 80 en-
phatio on that point that the police got
suspicious The cousins Of H,he huddled in
the back Of the room and were mum as
oysters. The room was not pretty, for
blood was everywhere and the furniture
was topsy turvy To the right and left Of
the place we're rooms full Of stolid yellow
men who hadn't seen thing or heard
1OunO, tNcy bdlu, dIiu tho pohSo SoNo ny
in disgust.
Capt. Tracy arrested seven Of the HUE
cousins and took them to the Elizabeth
street station as witnesses, although HUE
Hong Hing begged tearfully that they
might be let go. They were innocent
laundrymen, said HUE. The seven are:
HUE Tong OF % East l2eth street. HUE zee
of 2ol East Fifty-sixth street, HUE Duck
Of POI East Fifty sixth street, HUE. Chez OF
COS East ls4th street, HUE Fong Of se5 East
ls4th street. HUE Chung Of IA Variok street
and HUE Ling Of O. East i7eth street.
Roundsman Costigan, noting the gaiety
at the On Leong Tong headquarters. went
around to IL Bowery, the headquarters Of
the Hip Sing Tong. There was gloom and
angry chattering in the room. 1t appeared
from what Costigan learned that the gum
play at Is Pelt street was = fine stroke Of tho
On Leong Tong, although said Costigan
The Lord knows who is lying" Hip
Sing informers said that the shooting was
done by the On Leong Tong gun artists
and that the whole thing was shrewdly