The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01
Murderer Is Identified As F
 mef Steward on WarshiF
BELIEVED ID BE INS |
Vice Consul Killed Was Chin of Culture Who Had An Am, 2. ican Wife and Had Long
 Lived in New York.

New York. July S1.-Dr. Lux Wing,
 Chinese vice consul at New York a graduate of Lehigh and Yale universi- ties, and married to an American wom- an. was mortally wounded at his office in a lower Broadway building this aft
 ernoon by a man of his own race, who gives voluble but confused and con
 tradictory reports of himself in pid
 English.
 Dr. Wing died tonight in St. Greg l ory's hospital. He had been shot in the hack with a revolver.
 Mrs Wing, who is i'll herself, was driven to the hospital in time to be al the bedside. Her husbahd recognized
 her and smiled before the end came
 but at no time was he strong enough
 to make any ante 7rhortem statement. Michael McDonald. for 27 years spe- cial watchman at the Chinese consul late. identified the murderer tonight as 1 Wong Bow Cheung, who he says was formerly steward on the United States battleship Indiana.
 The man himself, who was thought at first to be Japanese, gave his name to the police as Matuda Young, and said he lived at No. 12b1 ButtonWood i street Philadelphia, though recently
 he had been employed as cook at Galen Hall, an Atlantic City hotel. He
 came to New York only yesterday He
 is under sized and crop haired, and
 wears American clothes.
 No rational motive for5 the murder
 has developed
 Mcdonald hays he 1slieyes the man is crazy. During the six years he haa been in this country he has been i1 1 and out of the consulate at interVais
 importuning whomever he could nne i for a position, or for loan. Nobody witnessed the shooting pr.
 Wing had offices on the fifth floor oi ! No. IS Broadway. Tenants on the seventh
 floor say they heard shot and rushed ] downstairj to find the vice consul and ] his assas In scuffling in the hallway at
 the head If the stairs. The assassin was
 nor caught until he reached the strer when two policemen who knew nothing
 of the trouble above, but were impressed
 by hls agitation and haste, gathered l him in.
 The revolver, with one exploded shell and misfired shell in 1t, was found in | his coat pocket
 l Quong Tick Nam the Chinese inter
 preter, who figured prominently in the
 Esie Sigel case. tonight quizzed the
 prisoner, who talked freely. His excited
 and broken answers seem to bear out
 the theory that he Is deranged The residuum of fact in his conflicting statements Is that he had a grievance ! against the vice consul because his appli-
 cation for aid had been refused. l He says he fired in self-defense and i that he was being forcibly elected from
 the consulate when he resisted and the 1 vice consul drew a revolver They fought
 for the weapon, he declares, and he got i 1t and fired point blank.
 l An early theory that the murder was l prompted by the well-known hostility of l the vice consul to the Chinese tongs and ! their incessant wars, Is not supported by l any findings of fact. There is nothing to 1 indicate that any of the complications 1 uncovered by the murder of Elsie Sigel 1 hv the Chinaman bear on the present ! case.
 i Dr. Wing married an American girl 1f ! years go. There were no children of
 the marriage.