The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-02
DR.. LUX Wing Shot in the
Back
In HIS NEW YORK OFFICE
The Assassin, Wong Bow cheung, Took
Japanese Name to Get Job.
Both Races Resented


New York, Aug. 2.--Dr lux Wing,
Chinese vioe-consul at New York, a
graduate Of Lehigh and Yale universi-
ties and husband Of an American woman,
was mortally wounded at his Offices in
lower Broadway building at New York
Saturday afternoon by man Of his
own race who gives voluble but confused
and contradictory reports Of himself in
1pidgin English" DR.. Wing died that
night in st. Gregory's hospital. He had
been shot in the back with a revolver,
and the bullet, entering below the shout
der blades, lodged in the lower lobe Of
the left lung. No attempt to probe for
II was made Mrs. Wing, who is III
herself, was driven to the hospital in
time to see her husband before he died
He recognized her and smiled before the
end came, but at no time was he strong
enough to make an ante-mortem state
ment.
Michael Mcdonald. who for p years
has been special watchan at the Chinese
consulate, identified the murderer Satur-
day night as Wong Bow Cheung who,
he says, was formerly q steward on the
United States battleship Indiana. The
man himself, who was at first thought
to be a Japanese, gave his name to the
police as Matuda Woung and said he
lived at 1915 Buttonwood street, Phila.
delphia, though until recently he had
been employed as a cook at Galen Hall.
an Atlantic City hotel He went 70
New York Friday, he said He Is under.
sized, crop haired and wears American
clothes No rational motive for the muir.
der has developed. Mcdonald says he
believes the man is crazy. During the
six years be has been in this country
he has been in and out Of the consulate
at intervals, importuning whomever bel
could find for a position or for iosn. ]
Nobody witnessed the shooting. DR..
Wing bad Offices on the fifth floor Of Isl
Broadway. Tenants on the seventh floor
say they heard shot, and rushed down.
stairs to find the vice-consul and his
assassin scuffling in the hallway at the
head Of the stairs. Men on the fourth
floor who were moving safe heard
someone above them shout Help. I've
been shotl" A dwardsh figure with
convulsed face rushed past them before
they knew what had happened He was
the assassin. One Of the men launched
q kick at him On general principles, but
he 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 she'll and a misfred shell
in it, was found in his coat pocket.
Quong Yick Nam, the Chinese inter.
prefer who figured prominently IN the
Elsie sigeI case. quizzed the prisoner
1t length Saturday night He talks free
" to anyone, but his excited and broken
answers to questions seem to bear out
theory that the man is de-
ranged, The residuum Of fact in his
conflicting statements is that he had
i grievance against the vice consul be-
cause his applications for aid had been
refused. Although he complained Of be-
Ing in want, and having slept Friday
night in the municipal lodging house,
The police found sl4e5 in his clothes
He denies that he murdered Dr.. Wing
md asserts that he fred in self-defense.
he says he was being forcibly elected
from the consulate, when he resisted,
md the vice consul drew revolver.
they fought for the weapon, be declares,
md he got it and fred point blank,
Az early theory that the murder was
by the well known hostility
if the vice-eonsul to the Chinese Tongs
ind their incessant wars is not thus far
by any findings of fact. There
s nothing to indicate that any Of the
uncovered by the murder
# Elsie sigel bears on the present case
d. Wing married an American girl 10
rears ago, There were no children Of
ihe marriage.