Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-04-03
SLAIN AFTER WEDDING
cHlNAMAN REFUSED TO PAY HIS
BRIDES FORMER "owNER.-
'ao mission Ceremony and Husband
Henounced Oriental Code, but tiis
Rival Did Not.

Chicago.-A difference OF opinion
mat has existed for some time between
MOCK Chun. a carpenter. and a digni-
tary Of the Hip Sing tong. and Neg
HonS, q member In good standing of
Ne IN Long tong. and which involves
some profound problems relative to
.ne application OF American marriage
LAWS TO orientals. came to an abrupt
conclusion the other night.
Mock Chun was mailing ND some
shelves In the rear of the store OF
Louis Ching at $40 South Clark street.
numminS an incoherent Canton
enanty and obliyious to Neg Hong.
whom he thought far away in PhiladeI-
pnia, when five men came so softly
through the narrow inclosed entry
way at the rear OF the store that he
did not hear them.
And then suddenly one OF the men
Grew a pistol and fired a shot. The
outlet entered Mock Chun's back and
pierced his lung He was as good an
dead when he turned around. but 20
make sure. the man with the pistol
nieo another shot, the bullet passing
through Mock Chun's hand.
in the moment between the firing
OF the second shot and the flight Of
the i've Chinese. Mock Chun caught a
glimpse OF the man with the pistol.
10 the brothers in the Hip Sing tong
VINO gathered about him he confided
that the man with the pistol was Neg
hong- Then he made his peace with
mis- ancestors and the death rattle
sounded in his throat.
mere had been a lack OF harmony
between Neg Hong and Mock Chun
ever since May 29. 1908. when Mock
Chun married Ada Brown with all the
rites and solemnities of the Philadel
phin mission. within the periphery OF
whose influence they happened at the
ume TO be living The Brown girl
prlor TO that time had belonged 10
Neg Hong and. according to the we'll
established Chinese view. she was bis
chattel.
1t was quite proper. Neg Hong ad-
mitted. that the girl should 20. but
what puzzled Neg was that Mock
Chun didn't come around and pay I'D
like man for the woman he had tax.
en- from him.
Y.
quite calmly-for. OF course. he was
not foolish enough to permit OF the &C.
cidental passion OF jealousy over a
thing so Insignificant as a woman-he
spoke to him. Mock Chun. To his
surprise Mock Chun few into a rage
when he was dunned.
Mock Chun also gave Neg Hong a
good talking to about love" and the
sanctity OF the marriage tie" which.
as every Chinaman knows, is the mer-
est missionary palaver
Neg Wong went from that inter
view very angry. He continued angry
In tumultuous sort OF way for sew
eral months. Then his anger settled
into quiet. deadly hatred. There was
an ebullition OF this hatred in Phila-
delphia several months ago. which so
frightened Mrs. Mock Chun that she
prevailed upon the carpenter to mi.
crate quietly to Chicago, which. she
had read. Is one of the few American
cities where they hang Cinnamon for
murder. Neg Hong and his old-fash-
Toned views on the ownership OF wom- /
en- had been almost forgotten when
the tragedy occurred
The murder has caused excitement
among the brothers OF the Hip Sing
and the On Leong tongs. They don't
bother their heads about the sex prob |
lem involved. All that interests them
Is that the member OF one tong has
taken the life OF a member Of another.
and blood is invariably wiped out with |
blood.