Evening star., 1909-09-13
GUN PLAY IN CHINATOWN
LEE wAH SHOOTS GUN .KEE IN
NEW YORK.
Trouble Arose Out of Indictments
in Case Of Murdered
Slave Girl.

NEW YORK, September 13.-Chinatown
was excited yesterday afternoon over the
shooting of a laundryman named Gun
kee, thirty-nine years old, of % Pell
street, who is supposed to belong to the
Four Brothers Company. by Lee Wah OF
~ Mott street, who is member. the po
lice say, of the powerful On Leong Tong
The shooting, which took place in front
of IA Mott street at 400 pm, Is said by
Police Inspector DAILY to be the direct re-
suit of the recent indictment of the two
Cinnamon, who. it IS alleged, had some
part in the death Of the Chinese slave
girl BOW kum who was found murdered
Sunday, August 15 in her room on the
top floor of IL Mott street.
For several days Mott, Pell and Doyers
streets have been patroled by special
squads OF policemen in anticipation Of
fresh trouble arising out of the Indictment
of the two Cinnamon. Patrolman Henry
Jacobs was standing in front of 16 Mott
street when he saw Lung Wah point to
IA, evidently calling the attention of Lee
wan TO the other. Gun kee as If by pre-
arrangement, was Immediately surround
ed by Cinnamon, and before Jacobs and
ano.ner pohceman could interfere Lee
wan drew a revolver and shot Gun Kee
In the back at close range. The buliet
entered just below the right shoulder
blade and took downward course. as
Siiow WI idter DIT the hudson Street Hos
pltal. where he was taken.
The wounded man dropped To ths
sidewalk and Lee Wah ran. Jacobs
chased him into the headuuarters of
the On Leong Tong. where he was
round hiding. He was dragged out and
taken to the Elizabeth street station.
He refused to say why he shot Gun
kee. but from other witnesses Inspector
DAILY said 1t was learned that the shoot
Ing was a result of the fear that Gun
hee would divulge what he heard at a
meeting Of the Four Brothers Society
held at its headquarters last Friday
night.
At the Hudson Street Hospital DR.
Denton said that Gun KEGS wound was
only superficial Before he was taken
70 the hospital the wounded man was
identified by Gin Gun, a merchant OF
No. 175 Worth street, as the man who
threatened to shoot him Saturday while
he and a number of other Cinnamon
were being examined by the grand Jury
In connection with the Bow Kun mur-
der.
Ten arrests were made at the time of
the Bow Kun murder, including six
white women living in Pell and Mott
streets. The woman was found stabbed
to death in the little room on the top
floor of No. II Mott street. A double
edged dagger was lying by her body.
She came here from San Francisco
early this year as the reputed wife Of
arrested and held for her murder, q
bloody trail having been found from
her room to his. Len sail that a China
man named Sing Ling had killed the
girl.
According to the police, bitter feeling
has arisen between the Four Brothers
Society and the On Leong Tong over the
murder of Bow Kun. After the murder
the husband of the dead girl, who is an
On Leong. made request on the Four
Brothers Society for So, 500 to reimburse
him for her loss. The society declared
that 1T was. in no way responsible, and
declined to pay.
Several days ago, the police declare,
two cases of derringers were received by
the On Leong Tong. and the police have
been looking for them ever since with
out success. A similar number are re-
ported to have been received by the Hin
Sing Tong, with which the Four Broth
ers Is allied. their grievance being the
arrest and indictment of the two mem
bers OF the society and the demand made
on them for money.
The police guard in Chinatown was
again doubled last night, and there was
patroiman or detective every ten feet
IN Fell. Doyers and Mott streets. under
command of Inspector DAILY and Actinp
capt Horrigan. II there are any mora
signs OF trouble men will be drafted from
odher precincts. Inspector Daily saws. and
CHINATOWN win literally be iammed with
police. WIN