Evening journal., 1910-04-11
CHINESE TONG
WAR ON AGAIN
Killing Of a Girl Leads to
Other Murders and
Attempts
MANY OF THE YELLOW JACKS
ARE MARKED FOR DEATH

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
NEW YORK. April I.-An undersl1ed
but powerful built Chnaman. Chu Hen
10y name was hustled into the Tombs
Court to-day "a short affidavit charging
him with murder was read. formal plea
of not guilty was entered and he was
hustled back Go "a cell to await the ace
uon of the coroner and the grand jury
During the whole proceedings he watch
eel the rear of the room where several Chi-
nameu We're gathered. They affected
stoicism while "a dozen uniformed police
and more than that number in plain
clothes watched them. TO the latter IS
due the fact that Chu Hen went 10 "a ccll
and not 20 a morgue and when the
Chinese spectators scattered they were
followed by the police hack TO tho tri-
angle that lies just west of the Bowcry
where most of New Yorks Chinese gath
cred
so-called Tong war is ON in all its fury
in the East Yesterdays killings in New
York and Philadelphia are 10 be followed
bv simular Sudden deaths FOO many cit
ies according TO the OLD timers ia CHI
natown here. The real cause no white
man can learn. On the surface the affair
feud between The -Four Brothers and Tong
whose history goes back in China beyond
[ the dawn of the Christian era. and tho
ON Leong Tong Each has marked tho
others leaders TO the death, and they Will
fight IL out 100 their way.
/ Killing Of Girl Started lt.
The nominal reason for the trouble was
the killing OF Bow Kum the slave girl
and the attempt of the On Lconps to send
two OF the -Four Brothers To- the electric
chair on pcriured testimony
Police Captain nnrlsht and nfty men
are on duty In Chinatown to-day. assisted
by score Of Inspector Days detectives
I'm plain clothes
The assailant of the Chuy-Moy-Yen. tho
agent OF the Great Northern who was tho
first man shot Yesterday has excaped
Mov-Ycn with three bullet holes In his
thighs declares at tho Hudson Street Hos.
pital that he doesn't know. As mat
ter OF fact he does, and the "gun men
of the Four Brothers have their orders
Ntoy-Yen was one of the big men ia th
-Four Brothers and vengeance will b
swift and sure. Tie was shot because D.
walked through Mott street p thorough
Z fare reserved extlHsivplE for hc O
Leongs
Chu Hen. now in the tombs killed Chun
Fook. The latter was an on Leong. on
Of their big men and the shoorng wa
a direct reprisll by The Four Brothers he
cause OF the Moy-Yen episode.
Innocent Mans Slain.
The third shooting was unfortunate
from tho Tong point Of Wow. lie was lnr
Mon. an innocent third party. Wal
shang. -Four Brothers leader was play.
ing fan tan in No 10 Doyers street. He
sat in a chair just inside OF the rear
window. lie lost steadily and finally
called for Ing Mon TO change chairs for
luck Ten minutes later, the window
opened noiselessly. a man thrust a ~e-
volvcr around the corner until 90 stopped
against tho body. Tho gun harked and
Inr Mon fell dead. lie had suffered
eho~-'y for tho bad luck that shane es-
capped.
The police believe that the real reason
for AN of the trouble was the break over
the gambling privileges in San Francis
co. hut they are in the dark and admit Il
as TO when further shooting viii take
ploce All they know is that It SIS sure to
come as the law of the Chinese is an eve
+ for an eve and the score stands now ar
con Leone" dead as against a "Foul
j Brothers" merely wounded.