The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-13
SHOT TIE WRONG CHINESE
T0NG RGLLETS ron NAN
WHO ISN'T A MEMRHk.
IRIended Ter . Rear npsaher Whs Lives
~ 10 Melt street. Theg Esn . I.adgsg
Va the same tsOnse asmnnev Eiseapeu
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nervous On Leoog Tong gun man
AS too quick on the trigger last night.
18th tho result that FOOng Hong SOY. q
'T-moer Of No tong. was shot twice
trough the abdomen. FOong Hong. tho
lice say. was mistaken for Four
irothers man. Who entered the building
D., 70 MOta street where Foonk HonG
led q few minutes before the shooting
as Chinese who did the shooting ESCAPED
sDcO the var 81 tho tonEs started up
gain last Sunday. when an On LsonR
nAn was killed. -Four Brothers man
sounded and an outsider mistaken, a.
u ihis case. for Four Brothers man vac
allied. Capt. EniSht. tho new commander
Il the Eliyabeth street precinct, hasn't
~andsrcd far cut Of Chinatown Siay OF
wight. He Was standing with Plain
Giothes Men Brickly and Miller Al Psll
and Mott streets last night and 81 ghteen
men in Uniform wsrs scattered about
me quarter when the noise Of rapid pistol
firing came from q house a little way
down Mott street.
capt Enright and his men we're AZ ~
Mott street before the smoke had blown
nut 81 the hallway. They heard Chinese
and found fOong Hong lying on the aOof
~ tho top OF the seairs. He was still
Conscious. bat in addition To repaetinG
over and over Me no belong anyt ing
would only cay that while he knew the
face Of the man who shot him he didn't
Know HE name or anything about him
FoOng Hong Vas hurried OF to the Hudson
erect hospital n no 10 In condition to
III h. uwftf to as..g
member more
A revolver with three empty chambers
Nas found IN the hallway near where
foonR Hong had dropIsed. II was not a
long barrelled ~. such ~ the Chinese
Ike. but a ~ &C hbrs Of recent make. The
tong gun fighters always throw away
their revolvers after using them and
then unless some one talks they are -
safe IN Chinatown a. II hidden in China.
Capt EnriGht and the two detectives
found another Chinese. Foong Hoy.
tending over the wounded man They
thought at FIRST that maybe Foong How
had had n part in the shooting. but Foong
Hong shook his head and told them that
Foong Hoy was his beloved cousin. with
whom he boarded. Foong Hoy aroused
the suspicious Of the police because he
TAU n1I uNNNN thtotAu W bbh WV HhAc hhN
hallway when he heard the shots.
Usually the pop OF a pistol - signal
tor every Chinaman within bearing TO
dive TO cover.
FoonR Hoy said that he was in bed
~hen the shooting started and that he
had heard FOonE Hong come up the
stairs to tie lending Then he ha~ heard
Foong Hong call oui the chinese word
~ Ia s!V,t
heIong 90 any tolg. Foong HoaR hadn't
had Tine to repeat the CIV before the man
With whom he plcadsd oDened fire..
The hallway Wa, deserted except for
Fooax Hong when Foong How got 10
the door. and - the police we're on the
steps o. the house almost az once Il was
~ Gent that he gan man escaped over
the roofs. The 'roiice searched all OF
me adjoining house and those In the
rear. hut iound M oue upon whom sl-- T,
picion could fast-n
ong Hnv hSC. "a ~ Fo"UC Hong
as-srtiDu thsr g." d..'r.t -!"'Cng anything
Ne sad tlaA a., .''To.d nan Wa -
yeaI- oid snd 'an. 90 go th" nitcd States
more TRAN .W"It" krs'-~ aru They b.
longCd TO the .aalc mi aLN
Foong How -TiG 'EaI - COUSIN had
formerly worked ~ = laundry b'it haA
been ot.t ~ work 90 lolr ~ nr~ - e'kS
F,ong Hoy vas CsTtsiE that the Wounded
man hat no sneiu,g- Iiss show s-d that hs
q in't h,heve thai ~, attack o as !Eten-
UonS!ly directed agRins' any II he FnonS
company Ivy dre-S,ns ~ on" aud start
ing or the hospital " hIle all Four Brother
men " ere either lying D. dden AZ their own
srveet or -Cur,y ing by close T." a rohCr-
mans coattssl
The fright II 'he -Four Broiher- men
,onvino~d the police that the bullets
FSong Hong stopped were intended for
me 81 that Tong. I'm searching tine house
= ~ Mott street they found Chung tlIUug. I
Four Brothers man VINO AZ first nd-
ulIt'ed through an interpreter that he had
heen followed 20 the house by two I'm
cong gun men and then denied tha' he
lad said - OF knew anything 81 all about ,
t"nkr
ina, a -Four Brot hers man should he /
u Mott street. which ~ On Leong terri .
tory. seemed strange until the police re-
mem bered that a FOs!r Brothers man had ,
, ~ ore IN the basement At No. 3O-had hal !
t-ef1Fe the trouble began and had ,
- 4ck to the place although badly fright
'.ned The store Was shut up after las; ,
gifts shooting and Chung QuUng was
aken back 10 Pell street. the -Four Broth
ere stron ghold. under police guard.
Iaia hnrighI and tue Elizahsth ~ rect
station men. who have had little sleep
-ince ne tongs got To fightIng again. ar .
rather grateful 20 Foong Hong FOR getting
%. he way - the bullets meant for the |
+ ,ur Brothers man. As things stand now.
ne -Four Brothers are ahead IN the bstil"
tally, ana " ~ not prcOaDtf tnSt they ~
esent the On LeOng mans mistake " ,
IS - r,Imored. however. that Foong Hong (
80 a relative in the -Four Brothers clan.
nd u mag be that this relative Will cbn-
der u his duty to make target OF some
entrsf Omoe men who were in China
WI las, nigh; stuck to the theory that I
the trouble started over the murder 81
b. Kun. the slave girl. They said that
n ght on Sunday began when four ct
no tong men were intercepted on their /
sAy TO BROOKLYN TO kill witness IN that .
q 40
The precinct police many ~ whom know !
, uI natovn a. well A. an outsider may. |
., ut bother with theOries. They say |
al tho Chinese tight because they like ]
n and that it's "A shame to keep an honest /
'up away from MS sleep to watch them |
Gr ~
There's 0uly one way TO end the !
rruubis- said one Wall zap the damn 4
Mace and have only one gate. and that /
me 10 larry out she deed ores. Then |
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