The sun., 1910-07-16
TONGS WAR OVER WHITE GIRL
I'M CHI ON ~ TIRGET FOR
ON IEONG BILLETS
Ne o. %, IRs. hat white Glrt y s,na lleaS
ny FSar nsstbers Tsag and Psllee
war the Old war 0. Oa NgaIR Oa
I.sSag. Whsn, PsIIee suspect. Canshi.

two weeks ago coaNed a white girl.out of
the tenement at - Mott street. thereby
upsetting the domestic life of Leon Parker.
half white. half Chinese and wholly On
l-.ong. the halting. deadly waEIare be-
/ tween Chinatowns two tongs erupted
again yesterday afternoon. Chu On.
a Four Brothers man. who had nothing
IN the world to do with the trouble with the
girl. was so reckless as to stray into Mott
street about O'Clock He hadn't been
there five minutes before he lay on his
hack in the middle % the street with FIVE
bullets IN his body
Chu On is a -Four Brother because he
man born with the surname Hohenzollern
is likely tn belong To the German royal
family. Chu On works in laundries when
he hbors a: all. he is thought 10y the
police TO have been one of the three men
who IN the dark early morning Of De-
cember n. 1879. shot and killed All Hoon
the comedian among the actors at the
Chinese theatre. All three men escaped
An Hoon was an On Ieong man.
Whether Chu On had anything 70 do
with All Hoons murder or not he di-ap-
peared from Chinatown at that time
! SinCa then he has heen travelling from
here To san Francisco. from Fl Paso u
Chicago. Thursday night he got hack
IA Pell street from Albany
The Four Brothers were glad TO see him
and gave him all the latest news. including
the strninsd relations between them
selves and the On Ieongs
b. very careful On said a whits
bearded old Chinaman. and thumIed the
pavement with his gold headed cane
You must not venture in Mott street
.-On" uf our younger men two weeks
ago stol.. the white girl of Leon Parker.
an TN Is.ong at % Mott street A few days
ngu Jim Gam. secretary of TN lssoug.
sent a formal demand - US tn surrender
tins gIrl THIS young man of us who stole
her - rash W. cannot max. him hshave.
H. - the pockmerket fellow over yonder
AT II P-ll street You do not know him
-Of cuur~. we sent back word through
the white girl detective who brought us
th. Tn leOug demand that as tong We
we're not respInsibls for the deeds nf every
mernl-r We do not elect them They
are born Pour Brothers and Il they are
bad We cannot help II
Chu On replied that h. had been away
a hong tim. ard did not belieVe the On
Longs would readily recognize him
| lie wanted ~ 60 luio Mptt Atrs.t-
Yesterday Chu On poured hbatipus
into him-sn and swung into Mott street
| from Chatham square with a Swaggcr
Mott street was hIll - trucks cinnamon
| lounging IN doors ami children. Tho
street was busy bat Ieaceful 4 plump
faced Chinaman with sliding oy--
shmp-sd the staggering Chu On turn
| ing tn. corner and sad one sharp. high
pitched word
! Instantly the doOrwav- wsr. flk q with
men who -tepp-,l ont ON the sidewalk
and stood like rows ~ infantry. reiaNcd
insoIent. watchful. These were the gun
lighters ~ On Ieong with 'h-ir hacks tD
ths wall
Chu On had th.. roadway TO himself
| He listed a bit as he turned toward the
groC.ry store AZ ~ Mott street Hts arm
br'Ishcd the pong-e sleeve of a recruit
gunman aud he SEsered the untrans-
IatAbIe insult. 'MArgahai'-
Some one gave him a shove and Chu On
found himself on the curb. The recruit
faced him with one swift word Of warning
Hat thu TN had not the mind to turn and
flee His hp- had no more than twisted
to utter another poisonous word when
fiv. shots sounded and he Crumpled up
On the pavement
Joe Mcdonald was the policeman ou
| post lie saw the recruit who had faced
Chu On dart into the grocery store at II
Mott ~ reset Mcdonald spranR after.
through the store they went The
recruit went through the shoD and over
a back fencs into the yard 81 IL hs
dartsd ia TIA. building and reappeared
fOr a moment on the front fTs cscape
He bolt.d through the hall and mp flights
Of stairs lie traversed rear fire scap'-s
Nc Donald could just keep the pace fifty
yards behind him The policeman might
have caught up with the giInman had he
not stopped to pick up the revolver he
heard clntter To the floor ahead Of him.
(Itinman and policeman were in the tans-
m.nt at 10 Mott street when Mcdonald
heard the door bang. When b. got TO
the place whence the sound had come he
showed open the door upon Chinaman
living drowsy in his led. Mcdonald
stripped the hedclothes on the man and
beheld him fully clothed in his ponR-e
suit.
This was Louis We. an On Ieong.
He wns taken Ia the Elizatsth street sta
tion There he said be worked as a laun-
dryman at "a Bleecker street. was mar
ried and lived at 10 Mott street.
The police say that n hoy identified
Louis VIE to them as the one who shot
Chu On They charged him with felo-
NOUS assault and took him 10 the Hudson