Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-02
SLAYER OF WING FEARS CHINA
DEPORTATION WOULD BE BIT
TER PUNISHMENT.
Wong Glad He Killed and Would
Do So Again, He
Declares.

NEW YORK August 2.-Confident that
deportation will be the worst punishment
melted out to him as the murderer of
DIR. Chaun Lok Wing. the Chinese vice
consul, Wong Bow Cheung. when ar
raigned before Coroner George F. Shrady
ir. yesterday and committed to the
Tombs prison to await the result Of the
inquest, which will be held Wednesday
morning declared he was glad he had
killed the vice consul and that he would
have made another attempt on his life
IL the shot he fired Saturday had not
proved fatal.
No, l am not sorry | killed him. L
would shoot him again for what he did
to me-" said Wong.
His face took on sinister expression.
and directly afterward he relapsed into
his former morose state. Only once did
he break silence, and then to say to
Coroner Shrady:
You send me back TO China for this
yes?'
Taken Before Magistrate.
Wong was taken to the Tombs police
court and arraigned before Magistrate
Corrigan, who had just returned TO the
city and had not heard of the murder
OF the vice consul. He exclaimed on
looking at the prisoner:
That man is crazy, isn't he?'
IL was then that Magistrate Corrigan
was told that Wong was charged with
homicide.
Wong killed DIR. Wing with a cheap
pistol that he bought at Atlantic City
four days ago. II was such a miserable
weapon that when Wong pulled the trig-
ger the second time 1t missed fire.
The character nf he ueannp' ay-
planned Coroner Shrady. ''disproves
Cheungs claim that he wrested IL from
DR.. Wing when the dead vice consul
threatened TO shoot him. and, in turn,
shot In self-defense. DIR. Wing certainly
did not own that cheap gun
While Coroner Shrady could not say
that he believed Wong 10 be mentally I'M
balanced, he intimated that such was the
impression of the police.
we will have him under close sur
yeiilance at the Tombs, said the cor
oner. for few days, and at the end
OF that time will lie able 10 say definitely
u cur suspicious arc well founded.
Hard Drinker and Opium Fiend.
'Personally.' added Coroner Shrady. Il
believe Wong to be one OF those dcrelicts
OF his race that occasionally drift into
New York. lie is known 10 have been a
hard drinher. an opium Mend and a hang
cr-on about Chinese resorts frequentcd by
the lowest class or white women. The
life lie led would he calculated TO pro
duce the kind OF man WHO would commit
murder and not realize the gravity of his
crime
Dr. Ho Wing Shau, Chinese consul gen
eral, was present at the autopsy perform
ed by DR. Wescott at ST. Gregorys Hos
pital yesterday morning. DR.. Shau said
he had seen the murderer al the con-
suiate last Friday talking 10 DR.. Wing.
lie said. too that he had learned from
Michael Mcdonald. who for twenty years
has been Waterman at the Chinese con-
sulate, that Friday Wong had asked DIR.
Wing TO get him work. Wong was not
in want. for ne had Sli.69 in his pockets
when arrested.
Il cannot believe Nong's stories that
Dr. Wing treated him haIshly." declared
DR. Shau. lie was kind man. and my
country has lost invaluable servant in
his death. l can think OF no reason why
Wong should have shot DIR. Wing