New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
CHINESE BULLET Fatal
VICE-CONSUL SHOT DOWN
At HIS OFFICE.
Lock Wing Dies in Rospital-His
Slayer q Conntryman IN
Herd Luck.

Lock Wing. Chinese Wisconsin in this city.
shot through the lett lung at his Office. No.
Is Broadway at 2:35 p n. yesterday, BY Chi
ness cook recently arrived from Atlantic City.
and died from the effects Of his wound az St
Gregorys Hospital az 500 p n. According TO
the story told by Wong Bow. Cheung. the assai!-
ant his motive for shooting Lock Wing vas
the !attaras refusal 70 help him in getting job
and the vice-ccnsuls demand that Wong leave
the ofnce
No one but. Lock wing and the essailant we're
in the eonsu!'s Office at the time Charles L
Reob. who has an Office next door, On :he nth
noor. said that ne heard the shot. followed by a
co!7r.1rrotion il the hallway Z. ]. Miller. who
has an Office on the fourth foor, said that he
savv III. two rren fall down the flight OF stairs
from the fifth foor as If they we're locked to-
gether Lock Wing. he said. shouted. 'Hs shot
me- He SHOT me.'
when the two men landed AZ the foot of tAe
stairs On the fourth floor, continued Nj Miller
one Of them broke loose and ran. dld What
l could to assist the vce-consu!, taking his head
in nv lap and tanning him. asked him if that
vas the man who shot him and he said yes
He asked me to send 10 the otFice for his coat
which contained some valuable papers he
wished 20 be taken 70 Roosevelt Hospital he
said"
voRKMEH CATCH AssAILANT
Three rivgers for ] Fitzhenry. a furniture
mover. were working on the fourth floor at the
time One Of them Charles Fitzhenry' SAID
that he tripped the fleeing Cht-ar1an up as ne
ran downstairs. but when Wong drew his re-
-,olver on him he did not attempt TO hold hlrn-
Jack Worth, another one Of the rlgSers. 1ol-
lowed the assailant downstairs, out Of the build
ing and I'D 10 No y Broadway. Wong having IN
the mean time dropped his revolver. Worth
f~rI,i,, and
until Frank W. Dunno. special officer at the
,yew York Produce Exchange Bank came up
and arrested Wcne,
Patrolmen Wilson and Rims took the prisoner
to the 1st Precinct station, il John street sur
rounded by a crowd of.people from the Battery
and lower Broadway. Lock Wing vas taken IN
an ambulance to St Gregory's Hospital and
placed in private room Under private nurse
Dr. Marshall NIcDuffie. pr. Ralph stuart, Dr
Reeves Turner and Dr. Joseph Forbes made a
hurried examination. and decided not to move
the patient.
Look Wing retained consciousness until the
end came and suffered little or pain. At
o'clock he was talking with DR.. Dietrich, the
house physician AMI Miss Kraemer. the private
nurse, who was taking care OF him. He said
he felt comfortable. His pulse was good and
lis temperature only slightly sub-normaL
pE.-rH COMES SUDDENLY
At SIS o'clock he took a sudden turn for the
worse, and before anything could / done for
him he died. DR.. McDufle who is visiting sur
geon at Flower Hospital and 1T 81 Gregory's
arrived ten minutes after Lock Wing breathed
his last. He exa mined the body and said death
was due to shock. He found no signs OF either
external or internal hemorrhage. In cases of
gun pistol shooting where the shot is de-
hvered at close range death from shock to the
system is Verv common
DR.. McDufFle. who had already informed the
Chinese Legation at washington of the shooting
and received word to spare no expense in caring
for Lock Wing, at once teIegraphed to Washing
ton that the vice-consul was dead. He also in
formed Mrs. Lock Wing
Fifteen minutes after Lock Wing died Wing
Su Ho the Chinese Consul here. arrived at the
hospital He had just received word Of the
shooting He was allowed 10 see the body al
though the Coroner had not come. Coroner
Shrady sent word after he was informed of
Lock Wings death that he would NOT inspect
the body until this morning. so u remained at
the hospital last night. The Coroner said he
would hold the inquest Thursday or Friday. He
obtained no statement from Lock Wing when
he visited him. right after the shooting as the
injured man was too weak TO talk.
wing Su Ho was greatly agitated. and at once
got into communication with the Chinese Lega-
zion ar We shington. Fo said that he did not
believe Lock Wing had any enemies and hs
was totally at a loss 10 account for the motive
for the murder. except that Wong Bow Cheung
was crazy He was absolutely that the
shooting had no bearing on the Elsie SigeI case
or any connection with the feuds Of the rival
Chinatown tongs.
CONSUL THINKS WONG CRAZY.
The consul said that he had seen Wong Bow
cheung az his Office, but had never spoken 10
him. as Lock Wing usually talked with him. He
said he had been told that Wong vas crazy, and
he believed this to be the case
Loci; Wing married an american woman Of
education sixteen years ago. but the couple
have no children. OF late years Mrs. Lock Wing
has been in poor health. and she locked like a
very sick woman when she went TO the hospital
yesterday afternoon 10 see her husband. he
Lock Wings lived at No. l01 West 10Th street
Mrs Lock Wing arrived az the hospital about
an hour after her husband taken there. She
pleaded that she be allowed take her nus
band home. After short tall. with DR.. Nc
Duffie, who had been in attendance on Lock
Wing she appeared calner and was taken -
her husbands side. The wounded man greeted
her with smile, but did NOT speak. Mrs. Lock
Wing remained in the room for about an hour
and then left the hospital in the company of two
women friends
WIFE SAYS HE HAD NO ENEMIES.
She said that she knew of no reason why
any one should take her husbands life and
thought that his assailant must have been ir-
responsible. According TO her. Lock Wing had
never received any threats from his country
men and so far as she knew. he had no enc
mics. He was a very reticent man. she 'dded.