New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
ONE DEAD, ONE DYING
IN CHINESE SHOOTING
The Four Brothers Celebration
Starts with Battle in Streets
of Chinatown.
DIDN'T STOP FEAST, THOUGH
After Smoke of Conflict Cleared
Members Were Anxious
About Feed-Police
Make Arrests.

IN the Elizabeth street station as the re-
suit of a pitched battle with revolvers
| yesterday afternoon at Mott and Pell
streets, in Chinatown.
The Four Brothers Jared badly, as one
of their members. Chu Foo. died Ia st
night at the Hudson Street Hospital.
another is under arrest with a bullet
wound in his thigh, while the third man
shot was an innocent bystander. Sing
jim, who kept a fruit and CANDY stand
at NO. 2S Pell street. three doors from
MOTT street, where the battle took place
Inc -Four Brothers We're to celebrate
yesterday the 2,000th anniversary of the
e7ta abilshment of their society. Incl
dentally they We're to have as the guest
OF honor Chu Hen. who was acquitted a
few days ago, although six disinterested
white men swore they saw him shoot
Chong Fook Quen dead at Park Row
and Pearl street on Sunday, April TO-
Such an affair was bound to lead to
trouble, so Captain Hodgins was on the
watch. He has been expecting trouble
ever since his failure to bring about the
signing of the peace pact.
Were Looking at Flags
Yesterday at 4 o'clock he was at the
patrol stable, No. 81 Mott street. lust
opposite Pell street. A minute later he
was standing with Sergeant John Mag
ner and Patrolman Homer Willis ad-
mir1ng the great red triangular flag,
with green scalloped edges, which hung
| from the Chinese Delmonico. at No. "A
Pell street, proclaiming that the Four
| Brothers were celebrating AS the three
men met they turned to look at the flag,
when they heard what they thought was
the crackle of fireworks, coming from
Pell and Mott streets, a few doors away.
| Swinging around to see who was set
| ting off firecrackers. they saw a group
/ OF eight or ten Chinese blazing away at
one another at close range The three
guardians of the peace ran to the SPOT
| the heavyweight captain leading his men
to the corner. In the mean time John
Lang, jr-, the patrol driver, who heard
! the firing from the sta BILE, rushed across
the street and right into the zone of fire.
| He grabbed Hom Hong and Yu Kom
with reyolvers in their hands. They
| cropped the guns, and he tried to get
one of them, but failed until after the
row was over.
Captain Hodgins grabbed Leong Lung
Of No. Al Mott street, who dropped his
gun and ran when he saw the police
Sergeant Magner got Wong Hong, the
man who shot Little Lee through the
breast on the Bowery last November
and was later acquitted, while Patrol
man Willis grabbed Chu Pan, with the
revolver still in his hand.
Rolls Downstairs with Prisoner
A bystander, named Bill Egan, saw
some Cinnamon running into No. 43
Mott street, throwing away their guns
as they ran. He started in and got one
of them, Yung Tung, pulling the China
man down the stairs, taking a chance
of being killed in the long roll down the
stairway. Patrolman Conroy relieved
Egan Of his prisoner.
Two ambulances were called from the
Hudson Street Hospital. and Drs. Brown
and Denton said Sing jim could not live
as he was shot through the abdomen
The other man was shot back of the
ear and lay face downward in the gut
| ter. dead Chu Pan was shot in the
thigh. He was identified at the hospi-
tai by Sing jim as the man who shot
| him. and he in turn identified the dead
man as Chu Foo. thrty-two years old, IL
laundryman, of Auburndale, Long ISL
and.
| IT appears from what could be learned
| from the Cinnamon about that the Four
Rrathers sent out pickets to see that the
on Leongs were not in position to
make trouble AS the picketS came
down toward Mott street from their
Headquarters, at No. Il Pell street, the
ON I,eong scouts were gliding up toward
Pell from their headquarters, Nos. IA
and IS Mott street. The two parties
came together at the corner, and then
| the shooting began.
Mon were bv no means the only things
damaged in the fight. Quong Yee Wo
& Co. have a vegetable and fruit store
on the corner opposite where the row
started. and no less than three bullets
did execution ON their place of business,
which is at No 3S Mott street. Across
ment house building, with a tea store on
tbe ground floor. The transom was shot
through. Wing Woh Chong g. Co. S
grocery. at No. 81 Pell street, had
window smashed, while the glass panel
of the door also was shot through, and
across the way the fruit and vegetable
store of Chong Lung & Co. had win
dow broken and the window frame
piereed.
Bullets Strew the Streets.
All around the hydrant at the south
east corner of Mott and Pell streets were
bulIets of the particular pattern used in
the noiseIess powder shells The many
opns CAPTURED or found in cutters We're
of the finest pattern. but confirmed the
nrevious report that the Cinnamon had
given ND the use of the .44-calibre for
tong wars. and had resorted to the
,otest model, long .3S Colt.
Driver Lang was not taken much by
,,.,,-ise as this is the fourth affray of
H. Lind in which he has figured, dating
,ocL from the big shooting on the Chi
20 Now Years Day celebration some
! Us ago II was brought up in the
uzoo,' he remarked yesterday, when
,a whether he had not hesitated to