The evening world., 1908-03-27
fEUD Of TONGS
MAY Be REVIVED
BY THIS MURDER
Ing Zip, One of the Hip
Sings, Shot In the Heart
of Chinatown.
ASSAILANTS GET AWAY.
Shooting Witnessed BY a Po-
licenan and an Assistant
District-Attorney.
ASSAlLANTS GET AWAY.


Tong was shot to death this afternoon
or the street in the heart Of busy China
town, and the police fear that the old
feud between the Hip Sing Tong and
the on Leong Tong is on again. Three
Cinnamon engaged in the laying out OF
Ting Zip, and all three got away, al
though a policeman and an Assistant
District-Attorney were eye-wtnesses OF
the shooting
ing Zip was n gambler and a bad
man. He carried revolver and was
suspected OF completely nthe various
Chinese murders that marked the prog
ress cf the feud in Chinatown two
years ago. In the peace compact cere-
!mon!es i'll January 1878. when the two
rival Torgs agreed TO bury the rnatchet
ing Yip took prVninent part in act
Ans for the Hip Sings.
IL is said that several strange China
men from Boston. where six Orientlls
veer recently sentenced to death for a
Tony murder, have been busy around
Chinatown lately. However. it is not
believed they made any threats against
Ing Ylp ne WAS entirely Jnsus2ett-
ing of danger.
Walks to His Death.
II was little before three o'clock
this afternoon when Ting Yip stepped
out of n restaurant in Mott street, a
few doors from Chatham square. and
stood blinking for few minutes In
the bright sunlight. He nodded to TWO
or three passing friends and then
crossed over TO the shady side OF The
street and strolled westward.
He had Just crossed the junction OF
Pell street and was in the shadow of
the Church OF the TRANSPORTATION
when three Cinnamon slouched toward
him from three directions Two Of the
Cinnamon were in Chinese clothing
TIE other wore American clothes and
had big white slouch hat such as
no Cinnamon around these parts was
Ever known 10 wear.
Moving evenly and with exact prec-
sion the three Cinnamon closed In on
the uRspspectlng Ting Zip. One ap-
preached from in front OF him. one
from the rear and the other in
diagonal line from across the street.
Un9 Zip Shot Down.
As each of the three Cinnamon
reached a point distant about five feet
from ing Zip. one AZ them uttered
cry and they stopped. The follow with
the bizarre white hat drew a for,y-four
'calibre pistol flashed II to a level with
eyes and fired. The bullet tore the Top
of ing lip's head off and he sank
Quvering on the steps OF the church.
As the echo OF the shot ratified Through
the cavernous depths of Mott street the
Chinaman in the white hat stepped two
PAGES closer - ing Zip and fired two
bullets more into him. They penetrated
his breast. and with great sigh he
rolled over and died.
Policeman Cohen was in Peil street,
right arornd the corner from the shoot
tnE and &. the sound o: the frat shot
he started for the scene on the run.
He turned the corner just as the last
two shots were fired. Assistant Dis
trict-Attorney Ward, who had lunched
In "a Mott street restaurant and was
on his way to the Criminal Courts
Bailding. was less than forty feet away
Cohen and Ward started for the
muiderers They were too la;e. The
three men jumped across the street and
vanished into the building at Nos. 32
and 81 Mott street. Cohen Went after
them and grabbed the first Chinaman
he ran sGross. but the prisoner was |
not one oil the mlrderers.
Chinese All Vanish.
Within u minute after the shooting
Mott, eel. and Doyers streets were en-
tireiy deserted by Cniuamen. Three
priests ran out OF tie rectory OF the
Church and a little sprinkiing OF Ital-
ians ran over from the vicinity of Null
berry PARK. The Chinese residents OF
the district vanished into the caves in
the big tenenlents, and none of them
could be found to ADMIT that he mad
seen The shooting or knew anything
about it,
Ung zap was easily identified. Every
body in Chinatown knew him. But no
one could be found who would admit
knowing the Chinaman in the white hat
Capt McNally, upon learning of the
murder and the way the three China
men had escaped. ordered the reserves
out from five prcc,nc.s and ula ed a cor
don OF sevcnty-fve policemen around
Chinatown. covering every avenue OF
escape that the police know. Then with
company of detect yes he started to
search the houses in Mott street close
to the scene of the critpe for the China
man In The white hat and his two com