The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-21
LOSES HIS REASON
BECAUSE OF LOVE
!nfatuatiOn for White Woman
Causes Chinese to 90
Insane.
'NAM0RATA IS TEACHER
IN BAPTIST MISSION
MOngolian Now in Padded Cell
Raying About Young Woman
in Seattle.

Love for q white woman hundreds oil
niles away has snapped the mind OF
Chinamau in Salt Lake City.
Calling out incohercntly the name Of
mis- adored one. repeating religious teNts
which she taught him. beseecninS he'
TO come to him. the Chinaman, w. ::
Shing who is suspected of having tired
10 commit suicide on Saturday night rs
in the insane ward OF the county le,Is
He was taken thither on Sunday nignt,
after no had grown so violent at st.
Mark s hospital that 1t was necessary 10
lock him up,
instant after ne was taken from the city
prison to the hospital. Apparently III
only highly nervous state when he was
released from the city prison, he sud
he was admitted 20 the hospital no
called out that his inamorata was IN
the next room and that she must nS al,
lowed TO so TO him Mne4 Hn fbScs Sne cnod a'o 1 TO
become violent. 1t was then tnat lnN
police were appealed 10 second omc TO
take him in charge Ihey louh ''i" ~,
crazed Chinau2n 10 the county Jdi! III
the patrol wagon.
Loves White Woman:
From what Shing told Or. S. 6, Paul,
Dir. Murphy OF the hospital and the po-
licernen who took charge of him, ne was
infa tuated with a pretty teaener IN Tn, the
Baptist mission in Seattle's China town
But although Shing was her taforlte
scholar. she told him that his race was
bar to their marriage.
Notwlt hs tanding, ShnS continued 10
love in the ropressive. undemonStratiy!s
manner Of his Oriental kind. He did
not work. but continued TO attend tnG
mission school. He said that ne nsd
been a scholar there for seven years;
whereas the ordinary course rs only lour
years.
Again and again hes oppressed his suit.
only TO be refused as often by the pretty
r-b cir RI 4 dGSDcrl
decided TO leave Seattle TO see II he
could not forget.
Shins came 10 Salt Lake CITY he ar
rived on Saturday He took lodgings a
the Wellington hotel, across the street
from the Oregon Short Line depot
He Cannot Forget.
still he could not forget the pretty
mission teacher; in fact the distance
which separated them only made his love
the stronger. Then the Chinanan was
found unconscious in his room, suffer-
ing appa rontly. from strychnine poison
ing He told DR. Paul that TWO men on
the train which brought him hithcr had
given him some candy that made him i'll.
DR., Paul gave Shing temporary trent
ment at the emergency hospital IN the
city prison. where the Chinaman was
began to complain OF his head
1T is full Of lead" he said.
Aware that the mans mind was weak
cnng. Dr. Paul rushed Shing to ST.
gavc way entirely
Shing gave the police little trouble In
The ride from the hospital 10 the county
iaIl. although he talked incoherently all
the time Of the mission teacher. When
so arrived at the Jail he refused TO take
off his shoes TO 20 TO bed
God won't Let me- lie said. BE
sides. she wouldn't Ike tt
Shins has more than the ordinary
education OF Cinnamon in this country.
He is about % years old His uncle,
Hing Chong Nong. 217 Washington
street, Seattle has been tclegraphed.