The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-01
CONSUL SHOT
 BY A CHINESE CountrYman Fires on
 Lux Wing. RESULT OF SMALL QUARREL Assailant Captured With Evidence in Hand. Prisener Claims He shot in Self De- fense After Remonstrating Against
 Prosecution of which He
 is Subject.
RESULT OF SMALL QUARREL

New York. July s1-Dr. Lux Wing. Chinese vice consul at New York, a graduate at Lehigh and Yale Univer- sities and married to an American woman. was mortally wounded ct his office in 6 lower Broadway building race, who gives volubie. but confused and contradictory reports of himself In Pidgin English.
 Dr. Wing died tonight In St. Gregory's Hospital He had been shot in the back with a revolver 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 the end came. but at no time was he strong enough to make an ante-mortem statement.
 Michael Mcdonald. for twenty-seven years special watchman at the Chinese consulate, identified the murderer to- night 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 . Japanese, gave his name to the police as Matuda Woung. and said he lived at No. 1915 Button wood Street. Philadelphia. though until recently he had been employed as q cook at Qalen Hall. an Atlantic City hotel. He came to New York only yes- terday. He is undersized and crop haired, 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 he has been in and out of the consulate at intervals. importuning whenever he could find. for a position, or for a loan.
 Nnhaax, fha ahOOtinR Dr Wing had offices on the fifth floor of No. IS Broadway. Tenants on the seventh floor say they heard a shot and rushed down stairs to find the Vice Consul and his assassin scuffiing in the hallway at the head of the stairs The assassin was not caught until he reached the street, when two policemen. who knew nothing of the trouble, but were impressed by his agitation and haste, gathered him in. The revolver. with one exploded shell and a inisfired shell in 1t. was found in his coat pocket.
 Quong Yck Nam, the chinese inter- preter, who figured prominently in the Elsie sfgel case. tonight quizzed the prisoner who talked freely. His excit- ed and broken answers seem to bear out the theory that he is deranged.
 The residuum of fact in his con- flictinR statements is that he had q grievance against the Vice Consul be- cause his applications for aid had been refused He says he fired in self defense and that he was being forcibiy elected from the consulate when he resisted and the Vice Consul 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 hos tility of the vice consul to the Chinese Tongs, and their incessant wars. Is not supported by any finding of facts. There Is nothing to indicate that any of the complications uncovered by the murder of Elsie Sigel by Chinaman. bear on the present case.
 pr. Wing married an American girl. sixteen years ago. There were no children of the marriage.