The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-11
WEALTHY CHINESE
FATALLY ASSAULTED
Hop Sing Found in Room in
What Is Believed to BE
Dying Condition.
WOMAN ARRESTED SAID
TO HAVE CONFESSED
Fort Authorities Searching for
Floyd Morley, Her Alleged
Soldier Lover.

Hon Sing, 4 wealthy Chinese of the
old tcndcrloin district. was murderous.
" assaulted in his room at 1919 Com
mercial street Friday morning at 1
% clock and left in dying condition.
In the ncighhorhood of $500 in cash,
which Hop Sing is known 10 have
had, either on his person or in hls
room. at the time Of the assault. eau
not bc found. and the police believe
that il has been stolen.
Mabel LOOMS. known 10 the police as
q bophcad. has been arrested and
Is being held pending an investigation
of the case. Her alleged sweetheart,
Floyd MoXley. Il soldier stationed at
Fort Douglas. is being searched for for
examination, and VIII be arrested on
sight. said Chief Of Police Barlow.
Hop Sing is the proprietor of the
rooming house nj I9l. Commercial
street. and. according 10 the story he
told Que Of his Chinese friends, Ling
Mark. proprietor of a noodle Join, on
Commercial street he was assaulted by
the lover Of the BoomlS woman. who
is said 10 bc MoNley. Sing said, before
he became unconscious. that he WAS IN
his room Friday morning at o'clock,
when the woman knocked at the door
and asked TO be allowed 10 enter. Sing
said that he opened the door, and that
the woman and her lover, the soldier,
came into his room. and that the
woman asked him for money.
Refused; Became Angry.
Sing said that he refused To give the
woman the money, and told her 10 get
out of the room He also said shat he
cursed her when she refused TO 90.
Then, according TO Sing, she turned
TO the soldier, and, banding him beer
bottle, asked him if he intended TO
stand by and hear her iDsultcd hy
Chinese. According TO Sing. the soldier
took The hottie and struck him over the
head twice, telling him. to the floor.
After that. he said, he knew nothing
of what took place in the room until
the arrival of the doctor
Iouc Fuller. a woman who roomcd
in the room next TO Sing. said that she
heard the noise OF the quarrel and, after
hearing the thud of the falling body
the door that the light III the room had
been Turned out. She said that she then
entered the room and, after seeing what
had occurred, sent a messenger boy for
n doctor When the messenger boy
started 10 leave the room the Loomis
woman, according to the Fuller woman,
stopped him and refused TO allow Il
DOCTOR 10 NC uOlilltu. lOln i Hllts
finally came into the room. and after
seeing what had taken place and the
condition of Sing. sent for II doctor.
Little Hope for Recovery.
DR.. Sprsguc. who WAS called, pro-
nounced the injured Chinese s condi.
tion critical aud. after making an cX-
animation, said that he is suffering from
conclusion of the brain and that his
skull is fractured in three places. Lit.
tie or no hope is held out for his re-
covery.
The police were Immediately notified
and, after making careful search of
the room. said that no money could be
found. According 10 friends of Hop
Sing. he had in the ncighborhood OF
$500 either in his rom or on his per
son, immc diately before the assault took
place.
When taken to the police station the
Loomis woman said that Sing was in
iured by another Chinese and that she
thought il was the result of a fucd be-
tween two Chinese topgs. The police
refused to accept this story and, after
they had closely :. swc5tedp the wo
man. she made confession TO the cf-
feet that she had sturck Sing over the
head with the beer bottle, the police
say. She denied that she had taken
any of the money. When asked why
she had turned out the light in the
room she became confused and refused
To answer the question