Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01
ASSASSIN BELIEVED INSANE
Claims He Acted in Self. Defense,
Following a Quarrel.
VICTIM A COLLEGE GRADUATE
Educated at Lehigh and Yale Uni
versities and Married American
Wife-No Witnesses
to Affair.

NEW YORK, July 3I-Dr. Lux Wing,
Chinese vice consul at New York. grad
uate OF Lehigh and Yale universities and
married TO an American woman. was
mortally wounded at his office in a lower
Broadway building this afternoon BY
man Of his own race, who gives volubie
but confused and contradictory reports Of
himself in pidgn English
DR.. Wing died tonight in st. Gregor,s
Hospital shortly after o'clock. He had
been shot in the back with a revolver,
and the bullet. entering below the shoul-
the left lung. No attempt to probe for it
was made. Mrs. Wing. who is Ill herself.
was driven to the hospital In time to be
at the bedside. Her husband recognized
her and smiled before he died, but at no
time was he strong enough to make an
anre-mortem statement.
Michael Mcdonald. who for twenty
seven years has been special watchman
at the Chinese consulate. identified the
murderer tonight as Wong Bow Cheung,
who, he says was formerly a steward on
the United States battleship Indiana. The
man himself, who was first thought to be
a japanese, gave his name TO the police
as Matuda Woung, and said he lived at
No. 1915 Buttonwood street. Philadelphia.
though until recently, he had been en-
ployed as a cook at Galen Hail. an At
lantic City hotel. He came to New York
only yesterday. He is undersized and
crop-haired, and wears American clothes.
Believes Slayer Is Insane.
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 he has been
in and out OF the consulate at intervals,
importuning whom ever he could find for
a position or for a loan.
Nobody witnessed the shooting. DR..
Wing had offices on the fifth floor Of No.
IS Broadway. Tenants on the seventh
floor say they heard a shot and rushed
downstairs to find the vice consul and
his assassin scuf1ing in the hallway at
the head OF the stairs. Men on the
fourth floor who were moving safe
heard some one above them shout, Help,
I've been shot"' A dwarfish figure with
a convulsed face rushed past them before
they rightly knew what had happened.
The figure was the assassin. One Of tho
men launched a kick at him on general
principles, but he was not caught until
he reached the street. when two police
men, who knew nothing of the trouble
above. but were impressed by his ag1ta-
ton and haste. arrested him. The re-
volver, with one exploded shell and q
misfired shell in it, was found In his coat
pocket.
Quong Yick Nam. the Chinese inter-
prefer. who figured prominently in tho
Elsie Sigel case, quizzed the prisoner at
length tonight. He talks freely to any
one but is excited and his broken answers
to questions seem to bear out McDonald's
theory that the man is deranged.
Claims lf-Defense.
The residuum of fact In his conflicting
statements is that he had a grievance
against the vice counsel because his ap-
plication for aid had been refused. Al
though he complained of being in want
and having slept last night in the mu-
nicipal lodging house, the police found
Sl46J i'm his clothes. He denies that he
murdered DIR. Wing and asserts that he
fired in self-defense. He says he was
being forcibly elected from the consulate
when he resisted and the vice counsel
drew a revolver. They fought for the
weapon he declares, and he got 1t and
fired point blank.
An early theory that the murder was
prompted by the we'll known hostility or
the vice counsel to the Chinese tongs and
their incessant wars is not supported by
any findings of fact. There is nothing to
Indicate that any of the complications un-
covered by the murder of Elsie Sigel by
a Chinaman bear on the present case.
DR.. Wing married an American girl six
teen years ago. There were no children
of the marriage.