Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-14

Locking the front door. throwing the
key under the bench in the front room.
the slayer made his way out Of the
back. There is no knob on the inside
Of the rear door, nor is there any mark
to show that the murderer had soiled
his hands. which would have been
made evident by the difficulty of FUN
bling with the stem Of the knob to open
the door.
The door opens upon an alley about
two and half feet wide, Uttered with
many impediments that make it i'm
passable; a high fence is on the
slayer made his way, leaving no hand
mark on the wooden boards which he
must have clutched, but making the
indistinct marks of his shoes in the
heavy crusted snow on the other side
as he jumped to the ground.
The Chinaman, recovering semi-cOn-
seriousness in a few minutes. must have
struggled to his feet, half-blnded, weak.
aimlessly trying to find way to the door,
calling and pounding on the partitions.
Everywhere is the evidence of his floun-
dering about; there is blood on everything
in three rooms.
BY the vender of fruit next door-who
thought a drunken man was in the place
and that it was none Of his affair-and
by jewellers in the house to the rear OF
the laundry shop the cries and poundings
were heard. The children in the house in
the rear called the attention Of their
father to the noises, and he went forth
and notified a policeman.
Policeman w. c. Allen was the man he
told. Allen went Immediately to the spot.
Finding the front way closed. he entered
by the rear, climbing over barrels and
boxes in the alley till he reached the
rear door, which was unlocked.
He found the Chinaman in this rear
room, sustaining himself on his feet by
holding on to the side of the partition
wall and to a box. With body bowed.
knees bent and half collapsing over an
other box, the dying Chinaman was still
making Intellectual efforts at times to
pound on the wooden wall, but his cries
had subsided into means.
Gave No Account of Assault.
The Chinaman could give no account
of what had happened to him. He sank
almost Immediately into Inconsistencies.
Policeman Allen summoned aid and the
precinct patrol wagon. The oriental, en-
litter, was carried out by the rear,
down the alley, put into the patrol wagon
and hurried to Garfield Hospital. There
he died at about midnight. without re-
covering consciousness, carrying with
him his knowledge of how he met his
death.
Annie Dade, colored, employed by the
Chinaman to wash for him, left the shop
at $40 o'clock last night. She appeared
this morning to resume work at about
o'clock. She knew of no one who could
have had enmity against the Chinaman.
On the hook, where the laundryman
kept the laundry tickets returned by
customers when they come for their
wash she found several tickets that had
not been there at the hour when she left
the shop last night. AS these tickets
may represent wash called for by the
slayer of the murdered man the police
hope to find in them possible clue.
Clarence F. Cobb, a resident of the
vicinity, told the police that he has long
taken personal interest in the China
man, and he offered 500 reward for the
capture of the murderer. He says that
Sam Hing. in addition to his daily re-
ceipts of cash. kept in the cash drawer.
also carried about his clothing a big roll
of bills.
Mr.. Cobb recently gave to the China
man a money bag, in which he put these
bills. What has become of this supposed
roll of money is not now known to the
police. They suspect that the murderer
found it in searching the dying mans
clothing
Sam Hing is supposed to have three
cousins living in Washington. a China
man gives their names as Lee Chom Lee
Name and Lee Wan. all dwelling at 43
Pennsylvania avenue.