New-York tribune., 1910-06-28
ALL QUIET IN CHINATOWN
But Police Keep Close Watch
After Sundays Tong Fight.
ARRAIGN SEVEN CELESTIALS
One of the Wounded in Hospital
Dies, Making the Second
Death in Fusillade.

Peace reigned supreme once moro last
night throughout Chinatown. Captain
| Big Bill Hodgins was not entirely satis-
FED however, with the appearance OF
things, and. fearing q further outbreak
Ike that Of Sunday, he had men watching
every street along which the bland, inno-
cent looking Celestials glided noiselessly,
and especially places where they chartered
In groups.
Whenever policeman or detective saw
o suspicious lump about the hip pocket or
in any other part Of Chinaman's attire
he promptly "frisked' the Oriental, who
generally smiled sadly, as II panied that a
Mclean officer should think him so easy
as to carry a gun where II could be seen
so readily.
Every minute the guardians Of the peace
strained their eyes and ears for signs OF
trouble, and the first cry of "Agh ollah!'
which Is the nearest English rendering OF
tho Chinese expression for a fight. would
have seen Big Bill's'' men promptly on the
job. The slant eyed denizens of Mott, Peil
and Deyers street went about their bus1-
ness, however, as if such things as tongs
and shootings had never been known in
their history.
Sing jim, the sweetmeat vender who was
shot at his stand in Pell street during the
tong battle on Sunday. died early yesterday
at the Hudson Street Hospital. being the
second victim OF the ARRAY. Chu Pan. OF
No. 53 4th street, Long Island City, VINO
wss identified by Sing jim as the man who
fired the fatal shot into his abdomen, is
still In the hospital, under guard OF a
policeman. He has a bullet in his right
| thigh, and is likely to remain there for
some days to come.
Captain Hodgins and a dozen detectives
| took the seven Cinnamon arrested at the
scene OF the shooting on Sunday to Police
Headquarters yesterday. The Celestials'
handcuffed to one another. were lined up
before two hundred detectives, who had an
opportunity to study then. thoroughly
while the story of the shooting was being
detailed. The "Chinks' were designated as
gun men, Of Chinatown.
After this ceremony the seven were
taken to the Tombs court, where they were
arraigned before Magistrate Appleton.
Sergeant John Magner, who captured Chu
Pan, said he had seen the Chinaman now
in the hospital fire two shots, and had seen
two men fall He also stated that he sa"
Wong Kong another of the prisoners fire
q revolver.
follows: Hong Hang, thirty-1ve years old
of No. IS Mott street; Yung Tung, thirty
two, of No. Al Mott street; Pong Low,
tbirty-three, of No. 16 Main street, Flush
ing: Ling Yung. forty-four. of No. 80 Mott
street; Leong Lung. fifty-five, Of No Al
Mott street; Wong Kons. twenty-seven, OF
Nc. Is PelI street, and Hugh Kom, twenty
five. O. No SO Park street. Wong Kong
AND Hugh Kom were charged with felo-
nicus assault, while the others were hel1
as material witnesses.
The seven Cinnamon were taken to the
Ccroners' office and appeared before Coro-
ner Feinberg, who held Chu Pan and Wong
Kong without bail, while the witnesses
we're held in sI0o bail. Later the five wit
nesses were released on bail furnished by
Louis AIderisi a barber. Of No. II Chatham
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