Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-08-01
MOTIVE FOR CRIME A MYSTERY
WONG Be Cheue, Former Steward OF
6attleship Indiana, Who Inflicted
Mortal Wound, Says He Fired IN
Self Defense, But Police Believe
Him to be Crazy.
(By Associated Press.)

NEW YORK, July 31.-Dr. Lux
Wing, Chinese yice-cOnsul at New
York, a graduate of Lehigh and Yale
universities, and marrieu to an Ameri-
can woman, was MORALLY wounded AT
his office in lower Broadway build
ing this afternoon by a man of his
own race, who gives voluble, but con-
fused and contradictory reports OF
himself in pidgn English.
DR.. Wing died tonight in ST. George
Hospital. He mad been shot in the
back with a revolver
Mrs. Wing, who is i'll herself, was
driven to the hospital in time to De
at the bedside. Her husband recog-
nized her and smiled before the END
came. At no time was ne strong
enough to make an ante morten state
ment.
Former BattIeship Steward.
Michael Mcdonald, for twenty-seven
years special w.tchman at the Chi
nese consulate, identified the murder
er tonight as Womb Be Cheug. who
says he was formerly a steward on
the United States battleship Indiana.
The man himself, who was first
thought to be a Japanese, gave his
name as Matuda Wouing and said he
lievd at No. 1915 cottonwood street,
Philadelphia, though until recently he
had been employed as a cook at Galen
Hall, an Atlantic City hotel.
He came to New York only yester-
day He is understood and crop-hair-
ed and wears American clothes. No
rational motive for the murder has
developed.
Mcdonald says he believes the man
is crazy. During the six years he has
been in this country has has been
in and out of the consulate at inter-
walls. impOrtuning whenever he could
find, for a position, or for loan.
No Witnesses to Shooting.
Nobody witne ssed the shooting. Dr.
Wing had Offices at the fifth floor or
No. Is Broadway Tenants on the
seventh floor say they heard a shot
and rushed down stars to find the
vice consul and his assassin scufling
stairs. The assassin was not caught
until he reached the street, when Two
policemen. who knew nothing of the
trouble above. but were impressed by
his agitation and haste, gathered him
in.
The revolver. with one exploded
shell and misfired shell in it. was found
in his coat pocket
Quong Yick Nam, the Chinese in
-terpreter, who figured prominently IN
the Elsie Sigel case, tonight quizzed
the prisoner, who talked freely. His
excited and broken answers seem to
bear out the theory that he is derang-
ed.
Had Grievance Against Wing.
The residium OF act IN his conflict
ing statements is that he had a grew
arce against the vice-consul because
his applications for aid had been re-
fused.
He says he fred in self-defense and
that he was being forcibly elected
from the consulate when he resisted
and the vice-consul drew a revolver.
They fought for the weapon, he de-
clares, and ne got it and fred point
blank.
An early theory that the murder
was prompted by the well-knoTn nos
,iIity Of the vice-consul to the Chi
nese Tongs and their incessant wars
is not supported % any findings OF
facts.
There is nothing TO indicate that any
81 the complications uncovered by TIE
, murder Of Elsie Sigsl by a Chinaman
bear on the present case.
Dr. Wing married an American girl
IS years ago. There we're no children
frou, the unarria~o