New-York tribune., 1905-08-13

to San Francisco for a time only to return with
new schemes and bundles of trouble.
Probably New-YOrk has never known a more
succesSfuI "bogte" man than he has become In
their day Monk Eastman, the Five Points gang
JACK the Ripper and other "bOgtes' have held
more or less sway but at time was II so COM
pete as Is that of Mock Duck over the 1000
chinese who live in the quarter near Chatham
Square. The smOothest work OF the others IS a.
rough as a He'll Gate tide rip in comparsion
with the efforts OF Chinatowns bad man
What is Mock Ducks address, a Tribune
reporter asked Chinese friend the other night
Wherever you hear the bark Of III was
his whispered answer. IF he is not there in
person his followers are. and the spirit of his
eVll hand is on the triggers Of their guns"
To command implicit obedience a Chinese
mother has only to whisper in the ear of her
yellow offspring: Mock Duck will get vour'
AT the mention of the dread name the child with
a whmper of fright. will hide in the folds of her
forebears ballOonIke garb
The grown up children of Chinatown almost
turn pale through their yellow skins when Mock
Duck passes. They have given him lot of
supernatural attributes-his big ears can hear a
pin drop block away his beady eyes can see
around the corners ahead Of him, he can read
the minds that would shoot at him from under
blouses. yellow mans bullet can puncture his
thick hide-and they fear him they do their
particular devil.
Even the police. who hate Mock Duck cord
tally for the trouble he has caused them, do
not charge that he has killed any rival tongsmen
with his own hands. They do say however
that his mind has planned the successful battles
or the last few months.
Il kill one" Mock Duck insists in very
good English. You prove that / kill I hate
nobody, and am not bad man"
He smiles blandly. rubs his hands softly
strokes his beardless chin with his slender I'm
gers. each one of which is tipped by a long
superbly polished nail He looks the picture OF
injured innocence when they get him before the
sergeant at the station house or before the
magistrate in police court
II is doubtful IL the police can prove anything
against him in regard to the Doyers-st. theatre
massacre He is supposed by some to h1ve
taken the gun fighters 70 the theatre and pointed
out the men who were to be slaughtered. but
il will be almost impossible 10 prove IL. Fright
ened men of the rival tong swear that he threw
the bunch Of hrecrackers on the stage The ex-
plosion of which signdled the outbreak As a
matter OF fact at the time the trouble began
willy Mock Duck was iE the Oak-st. police sta
tion Offering bail for Chinese friend who had
been arrested earlier in the evening.
Meantime Chinatown is holding its breath and
wondering where the next outbreak will be and
when Many are arranging for the tTanspcTta-
ton of their dead bodies back to a last resting
place in the FlCwery Kingdom IL may be their
turn next and IL is tusJ well 10 he prepared.
they think, There Is never thought on the
part of most Of them OF projecting their lives.
They are fatalists. these Chinamen. and the air
Of the quarter Is just as IL was before sudden
death lurked I'm every hallway and even IN the
brightly lighted omen street