Evening star., 1909-07-12
TONGMEN FLEE BEFORE HIM
Woman Missionary Tells Of Messages
Sent to Harlem.
URGES WATCH ON WHITE WIFE
Miss Stewart Knows Her and SAYS
She Can Throw Light on the
Fugitives Movements.

| NEW YORK. July 12.-Wong Fang has
returned TO Chinatown-Wong Fang, the
sleek. the debonair, the terrible. He stroils
| jauntily through the narrow streets; he
chats lightly in his perfect English with
the white men he knew: he wanders into
open doorways, traverses dark, creaking
stairs, whispers secret question through
the curtained gratinSs of locked doors, re-
ceives his answer and strolls airily away.
| 1t is only natural that Wong Fang
should seek again his friends in China
| town. For he has been in exile more
| than a year-eyer since the great street
| battle of the tongs. But it is a strange
| thing that never one of those to whom
| he speaks unbars a door or shows face
between the gratings.
| And 1t is stranger still that through
| the little oriental village in the heart
of the great city d secret message speeds
before him and Chinatown sits breath
| less behind its fastened doors and waits
| IN terror for his coming.
On Trail Of Leon Ling.
/ For Wong Fang, the man without a
queue. the reputed captain of the Hip
Sing Tong, has come to Chinatown upon
the trail of Leon Ling, slayer of Elsie
sigel.
| There is no chivalry in Wong Fang's
| motive. Perhaps he is here because the
| past sins If he will aid them. More likely
| 1t is his quenchless hatred Of the rival
| Ong Leong Tong, of which the fugitive
Leon Ling is supposed to be member.
! At any rate, IL is true that, with his
mysterious arrival, there was a sudden
exodus OF the Ong Leongs from the col
ony. All the gun men''-the fighters
have disappeared as If their existence had
| been but one of their own Opiate dreams.
| Some had left before-those who, the
police believe, sent back the misguiding
| kilograms signed with Icons name. But
| now there Is not a gun man of the Ong
| Leong Tong in Chinatown.
Watched by Police in Hiding.
| AS Wong Fang went down Doyers
street last night there was a group OF
detectives lounging carelessly over the
rail Of the Chatham Square elevated sta
ton. He did not seem to see them,
though he knew well that they were
| there.
His whispered question was repeated at
No. and No. Doyers street. 1t was
the same he had already spoken at No. .,
No. II and No. Ii Pell. When he was
through he joined the officers at secret
rendezvous. +.
What information the informer gained
could not be learned, but last night there
| was a flying departure OF central office
| men and detectives OF Capt. Galvin's staff
| to parts unknown. And at headquarters
| the belief was confidently expressed that
! the slayer OF Elsie Sigel would be prts-
| oner in the Tombs within two days.
OF course that has been predicted be-
| fore. 1t is not new stuff In police talk.
But there is another reason for believing
| that Leon will be captured through the
| enmity Of his own countrymen, and that
| other reason is Chu FonS.
This man Is another educated China
| man who has been of service to the po-
lice. He was instrumental In the arrest
Of Wurry Charles. one of the Chinese
slayers now under death sentence in
Boston. And he, too, is now In China
town, weaving his own secret way
| through it's underground mazes. seeking
Tor news of Leon.
Believes Leon in Harlem.
New life was given to the chase for
l.. Leon when Miss Mary Ella Stewart
appeared with some fresh information
about doings in Chinatown and the
former life of Leon.
Miss Stewart is graduate of Hong
kong school, speaks five Chinese dialects
and writes the peculiar characters. While
she has not been regular worker in
Chinatown, she showed great familiarity
with the quarter and the relations of
the various Chinese societies, as well as
the business. habits and personalities of
many of the Chinese residents.
| She said that Chinese messengers had
been sent to Harlem from Chinatown
for the last week, carrying messages to
Leon, keeping him informed of the move
ments of the police, and carrying money
contributed by members of his society to
Icons support.
She said, also, that the police should
keep watch of Icons American wife,
whom he married in Philadelphia five
years ago. Miss Stewart said that she
knew this woman, and that much could
be learned of the missing Chinaman
nv watching her