Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-19
PEACE MEETING
ENDS IN MELEE
FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT OCCURS
IN CHINATOWN
RIOT CALL. BRINGS POLICE TO
CHECK CONFLICT
Great Time in Oriental Quarter-ce-
IestiaIs Attack offcer--Mob Falls
on Victim, Who Has a
Close Call

Within the sacred precincts of the
Chez Kong tong house in Apablasa
street, Chinatown, last night a peace
conference called to settle personal
dispute between Woo Kee, prominent
member of the Chez Kongs, and Fong
Ling CT the Hop Sings. broke up in
free for all fight, which resulted in
riot alarm being turned into the Chi
natown police substation and q more
active and interesting encounter be-
tween the police and the peace dele
gates.
Acting Sergeant George Willetts, in
charge of the Chinatown squad, invad-
ed the tong house alone to stop the
fight which was going on, and the IN
stant he commanded them to be peace
full the opposing forces who had but
moment before been battling with
one another combined and turned on
him.
In one solid mass of blue blouses and
flying pigtails they attacked the big
police officer, and under the force of
the impact he went down with hun
dred squirming. kicking, biting,
scratching Chinese on top of him.
For a few minutes Sergeant Willetts
occupied most undesirable position
but it was only for few minutes.
After the combined forces of the
Chez Kongs and the Hop Sings had
walked all over him and kicked him
and pulled his hair and tore his clothes
and inflicted sundry other marks OF an
| imosity upon him he gave heave with
his great shoulders and sudden uplift
with his body and Chinese flew in
every direction, and he stood upright.
| AS he reached his feet Willetts be-
gan laying about him with his lists.
and his arms few in and out with the
regularity of pistons and the force or
| battering rams.
Fall Like Straws
Chinese went down before him like
grain in front of the scythe and when
they were able to scramble to their
| feet they did not return the attack.
The "big white man. was too much
for the little yellow men and the entire
crowd of nearly 100 was whipped to q
| finish when the reserves arrived.
| There were no arrests. The Chinese
peace delegates had had enough ana
| Willetts laughed as he ordered them
all to their homes with directions to
refer their peace conferences to head
quarters hereafter.
In the meantime Woo Kee, one OF the
| parties to the first dispute, had gone to
his home at 21S Rose street. short
time after he had got into his bed he
heard noise outside his door. 1t was
only a little yellow cur dog gnawing 6
bone, but Woo Kee imagined 1t was
highbinders come to get him and ht
drew a revolver from under his bed ant
fired six shots into the ceiling Of hi
room TO call the police.
Patrolman Pautz vent to the place
and investigated the shooting, and aftei
he had ascertained the facts admon.
ished Kee to let his firearms alone ano
keep stray bones from off his porch.
Ching Wing of 1926 Marchessauli
street, said by t. police to be the Mr.
Buttin of Chinatown, is alleged to be
responsible for the breaking up of the
peace conference held in the Apablasa
street tong house.
He was a busy man on both sides OF
the conference until the arrival of Will
| letts when he took the way of a
window and made a more or less grace
full retirement from the scene over an
adjoining roof and thence by way OF a
fence to the ground.