The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-08-16
BOW KIM Is SLAIN
BY CHINESE WOOER
Body Of Oriental Girl Found
in Mott Street Dive.
SUSPECT IS UNDER ARREST
White Women, Ginning to BE Wives
of Yellow Men, Held as Witnesses.
ters ia Trunk I'm Room where the
Shocking Crime Was Committed.


New York, Aug. l5.-Bow Kim. a round
faced Chinese girl with straight black
bangs plastered low over her forehead,
came to America from her home in China
three years ago TO work as a servant in
San Francisco. Instead. she fell into the
hands Of Chinese parasites IN that city
Early this morning she was found lying
on the floor Of one Of the two rooms
that a Chinaman named Chin Len occu-
pied In q house at the rear Of II Mott
street She was dead.
\ frightful knife slash that ran dag
onaily across the girls abdomen alone
would have killed her To make sure
however, the murderer also had stabbed
her twice through the heart. Marks on
hce throat showed that she first had
been grabbed there and perhaps partly
strangled. cuts on her hands indicated
that the girl had struggled with her as
sailant and had fought of the knife Us
long rs she could The knife, a horn
handled hunting affair, with a blade al
least seven inches long, Of English make
stuck upright in the floor beside her
Policemen Discover Murder.
The murder was discovered about
o'clock this morning. when an excited
Chlnaman came out Of the narrow cor
r.dor that runs through the building
back Of the crazy labrlath Of novels be-
hind the stores that iace Mott street
The Chinaman. who wore a cheap sui
OF American clothes. ran over to Police
man Paul. Of the Elizabeth street sta.
ton. who was standing on the opposit,
side Of Mott street chatting with Lot
FOOk. the Chinese merchant
Murder, q murder, was all the China
man could say, and he indicated the darl
passageway The policeman. Fook ans
some Chinatown hangors-on WHO wer,
en- Mott street. all hurried back 10 uht
house IN +he rear of No. t. ana climbed
the narrow staircase that leads 70 two
rooms, one fight up. that the Chinamar
had pointed out.
Owing TO the darkness and the excite
ment OF the moment the Chinaman who
had brought the policeman back 10 IN,
house disappeared for a moment Tn,
door OF the apartment was locked Po
liceman Paul was about 10 break IN thl
door when the Chinaman reappeared anC
unlocked the door.
Body on the Floor.
The girl lay on the floor She wa,
dressed IN Chinese clothes-a little yel
low silk jacket and a blue silk divided
skirt Her body was still warm. Two
u..,f-,.- coo t.t- .lI.F o.. ,,.f-1l..,-.- ID, -.
doors tightly closed, made the tempera
ture of the room 7uffocatnE.
The girl evidently had been stabbed a.
she lay on a bunk that runs along tn,
wall of the front room and then haC
rolled 10 the floor. The bunk was covered
with blood. In an inner room was
bed that was undisturbed. There wa.
no clothing Of any sort to be found fl
the roOms-nothing but a few bits o.
furniture. some Cancelled policy slips
two or three New Year cards, and
number Of letters IN Chinese. most O.
which bore san Francisco postmarks
These letters when translated proved L
be from business houses. Most of then
were bills accompanied by dunning let
ters from Chinese merchants demanding
| payment for jewelry.
Chinnmnn Is Arrested.
Policeman Paul took the Chinaman q
the Elizabeth street station house. Hi
name, he said, IS Chin Ken. thirty-on
I years old. Once he was a laundry worker
he told Police Captain Calvin. but h
hasn't worked for some time. After h
| had been locked UP Capt Calvin, Police
man Paul. and Detective Nammack. o
/ Chinatown. gathered IN nine witnesses
all from II Mott street.
/ Three Of the witnesses are Cinnamon
/ Wong Sing. Yuen Chin. and Quong SING
They were taken from the little stor
| owned by Yuen Chin, directly under III
dead girls apartments. The other wit
/ nesses were all white girls. who claim [
I be married 10 Cinnamon. They CAV
/ their names as Annie NIOy, Pearl He
I Lizzie Yung Yen, Florence Quong. Mar
/ Sing, and Evalne Heag.
/ From Information given to Capt. Gal
win by the Chinaman first arrested. tn
/ captain and his policemen Went 10 - Mot
/ street and gathered up number o
/ things that proved interesting.
trunk belonging to the Chinama
first arrested, Chin Len, was found {
one Of three rooms at No p. that ar
said TO be the club rooms Of a branc
of the On Leong Tong.
Find Knives and RevOIvcrs.
Also the police found in the room tw
new Colt revolvers. one an automati;
and six long hunting knives Of Englis
and German make Five Of the knive
bore a marked resemblance to the knit
found beside the girls body. one OF N
knives was an exact duplicate Of tn
bloody knife that had been used by tn
murderer.
The trunk was filed with the girl
clothing. an odd collection Of Chimes
and American clothes. some photograph
OF the girl also picture of Chi
Len
Chin Lens overcoat was the only gal
ment of his in the trunk.
Written in English on the back of on
of the photographs Of the girl was tn
inscription:
ITO my darling honey, with much {
love from your sweetheart, Bow Kim &"
The inscription on the back Of III
other pictures said:
ITO my dearest sweetheart, with muc
OF love from Sweet Darling, Bow Kim. "
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