Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-08
CH|NAMEN WILL HANG
Nine Found Guilty of Murder
in Boston.
TWO IN PHILADELPHIA
Captures Made After Fierce Tong
Fights.
ARE NOTORIOUS RATCHET MEN
One Wealthy Oriental Captured
With the Gang-Another Dies
Suddenly in Jail.
RE NOTORIOUS RATCHET MEN

BOSTON Mass, March - Wary
Charles. one of the wealthiest and
most influential Cinnamon of Boston.
and eight of his countrymen. claimed
to be notorious "hatchet men, were found
guilty by a jury in the superior criminal
court late today of murder in the first
degree on four counts, alleging the kill
ing of four Cinnamon in Boston August
. of last year. A tenth defendant. Yee
Watt, who had also been on trial on the
same charges. died suddenly in his cell
last Tuesday, while the trial was in
progress.
The men today found guilty are Min
Sing. Hon Woon, Leong Gong. Wong
Duck. Wong How, Joe Guey. Dong Box.
Ling zee Jung and Wary. Charles.
The men were accused Of the murder
of Chin Mong Quin. Wong Shuchung.
Chin Ileet and Lee Kai Mem.
In each case Wary Charles was ac-
cused of being an accessory before the
fact.
Was a Long Trial.
The cases had been on trial for thirty
three days, the first four days being
thrown out on account of a mStrial,
owing to the sickness of a juror. Over
4,GO0 typewriter pages OF testimony
were taken and the cost of the trial is
estimated at $4,000 The cases were
heard before Judges Brown and Pierce,
the states case being in charge of AS
sistant District Attorneys McFettrick and
Dwyer, while the defendants had as coun-
sci c. W. Bartlett, II. II. Pratt and At
torney Woodman.
The murders for which the nine China
long standing feud between the Hip Sing
Tong and the On Leong Tong, rival Chi
nese societies..
Early Friday, August ., 1907. num-
Der of strange Cinnamon suddenly APP
peared in Oxford place. in the heart of
the Chinese quarter of Boston, and when
signal was given began firing from re-
volVers of heavy caliber upon scores of
Chinese merchants and laundrymen who
We're lazily lolling about. Over forty shots
were fired and when the police appeared
they found three Cinnamon dead and a
dozen others seriously wounded, one or
whom died.
Heard of the Hip Sing Tong.
Shoy Tong, one of the principal govern
ment witnesses, testified that Wary
Charles, president of the Hip Sing Tong,
had instituted the killing. During his tes-
timony he said: Charles said that he
WOulO nave TO 90 some Killing and make
the Chinese business men so afraid that
all of them would join our society
Charles is also alleged to have said:
I'VE are getting to be dead ones and
must kill some one"
Tong testified further that Charles pro-
posed sending to New York, Philadelphia
and Chicago for Ratchet men, who were
unknown to do the killing, as they would
be better able to escape.
Caught the Highbinders.
PHILADELPHIA. March 1.-Two Chi
nese-Jung Jow and Mock Kung-will be
hanged in Moyamensing prison here
Tuesday for the killing of several of their
fellow countrymen last summer during a
pistol battle in the streets of Chinatown
in this city. The warning factions be-
longed to the On Leong Tong and Hip
Sing Tong organizations. Tuesdays exc
cution will be the first hanging of a Chi
naman in this city, although there have
been several battles between the rival So
cieties with fatal results. In some of these
affairs the guilty men, usually brought
here from other cities, escaped.