Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
FIND DEATH WARRANT
FOR CHINESE TONGMAN
POLICE HAVE IMPORTANT cLEW
IN DISTURBANCE
discriminating Letters Found In Pos
session of Prominent Resident
of Chinatown Which Ex-
plain Matters

Leon Him, Chinese tailor with a shop
on Apablasa street, in Chinatown, is
prisoner in the city jail charged with
assault to kill.
He is said by the police to be one of the
three men who shot and wounded Chan
Mon, the rich Chinese produce dealer, in
Chinatown Saturday night.
Him was arrested by Patrolman Harrl-
son early yesterday morning in the south
ern part of the city. According to the
police he has been positively identified as
one of the guilty highbinders.
Wong Young and Lee Lem, two other
Chinese, are booked at the station on sus-
picion of being connected with what is
now known to have been premeditated
attempt to kill Chan Mon.
| Early yesterday morning Sergeant G. %.
| Sebastian headed a raid of Chinatown In
| the hope of arresting the men concerned
| In the shooting of Mon.
| In searching one of the houses on which
suspicion had fallen end which is the
home of Leon Him, two letters were
found written in Chinese characters and
in the chest from which they were taken
were four empty boxes which had con-
tained Colts revolvers of the latest pat
! tern and heaviest caliber.
Found Deatn Warrant
The letters were contained in an envel-
| ope addressed to one of the best known
Chinese in the local colony of Mongolians.
| The envelope and one of the letters were
dated San Francisco, and according to
| the postmark were forwarded from there
| but a week ago.
Freely translated one of the letters
stated that the writer, who is connected
with the Bo Dong tong of San Francisco,
would send the next day four of the best
known gun and hatchet men in the San
Francisco colony of highbinders.
| 1t stated also that there would be for
warded by express at the time the letter
was mailed four revolvers, which. in case
they were found, could not be traced to
any Los Angeles gun store and conse-
quently to the buyers or users.
1t was further stated in the letter that
the men had been given explicit direc-
tions to report to the addressee in Los
Angeles and to obey his instructions in
every particular.
Find Credentials
Inclosed with this letter was another
written on red paper, showing forth in
black characters the fact that the men
who bore 1t were the accredited repre-
sentatives of the San Francisco branches
of the Bo Dong tong, the BIng Gong tong
and the Suey Yup tong, three of the most
powerful organizations on the coast.
BY a close examination of this paper 1t
was found to contain secret writing which
could only be read by holding 1t in front
of powerful light.
Then, and then only, in faint characters
of lighter red than the paper itself, was
found the death warrant of Chan Mon.
| In terse language was there written in
blood colored letters the direction to kill
the Los Angeles Chinese who would be
pointed out to these gun men.
The police with this damaging evidence
in their hands are confident that as soon
as they capture the men directly con-
cerned in the shooting they will be able
to convict them of the assault without
any trouble whatever, and, more than
that will be able to arrest and convict
| the conspirators who are responsible for
| the deed
Chinese Aid Police
| Scores of law abiding and peace loving
| Chinese in the local settlement are aid
| ing the police in every way possible in
their search for the guilty men, and while
| a number of them e aware that their
action in this regard will bring them to
the notice of the highbinders and prob
ably sign their own death warrants, with
stocal Indifference to their fate they are
going ahead in the endeavor to land the
! would-be murderers of Chan Mon and
punish them for their act.
Sergeant Seba stian in charge of an aTg-
mented force of patrolmen, is still raking
Chinatown as with a fine-tooth comb to
find the men who are wanted, and num-
ber of detectives in charge of Detective
Hugh Dixon are searching the outlying
districts of the town.
That the police believe the shooting of
Chan Mon is but the forerunner of pro-
tracted war among the tongs is evidenced
by the fact that nearly half of the avail
able patrolmen reporting at central sta
ton have been assigned to the Chinatown
squad with orders to arrest every China
man found acting in suspicious manner
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