Evening star., 1912-09-01
FOUL PLAY POSSIBLE is AGAIN THE VICTOR
Coroner investigating Death Layton Purdete Scores High
ofOr IF. Tong est in August Fly War.
BODY FOUND IN HIS ROOM FITZGERALD SECOND BEST
Chinese Diplomat Who Had of Slaughtered
Active in Revolution IN Month, 7,421, 800
CALLED TO HOME POSITION DISTRIBUTION THE PRIZES
Discovered by
artment Clad in Blood ondit ons of
athrobe. Crusad
BODY FOUND IN HIS ROOM
Chinese Diplomat Who Had Been
Active in Revolution.
CALLED TO HOME POSITION
Discovered by Janitor of New York
Apartment Clad in Blood
stained Bathrobe.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 31-Dr. f. r.
Tong, who was prominent in the
Young China Association and active
as an agitator for the recent Chinese
revolution, was found dead in his
apartment today. DR.. Tong was to
have sailed for China today to take
high government position in Peking.
The dead physician had been sitting
in a chair before the middle one of
his three front windows on the ground
floor for three days, with only lace
curtains to hide him from the street.
He was clothed in his underwear.
socks and bathrobe. This latter was
stained with blood which had flowed
from his right nostril.
julius Wentzel janitor of the house,
discovered the body at o'clock this
morning. Vented opened the door
with pass key and entered the apart
ment He saw the doctor in such a
natural position that he thought he
had been reading and had stopped to
rest. He put one hand on his shoulder
his horror he found the doctor was
dead. Wentzel called tenant OF the
apartment house. a physician. who said
that DR. Tong had been dead several
days.
Cites. Suspicious Circumstances.
Janitor wentzel said there were several
suspicious circumstances which demand
ed investigation. He said that for sew
eral days past DR.. Tong had been re-
ceiving more than a dozen calls on the
telephone a day. His usual number was
not more than three calls. Those who
called him declined to give names. except
IN one case where the name Of a general
| sessions justice, VINO is now out Of the
city on his vacation, was mentioned. TWO
| men who looked more like Japanese than
Chinese were seen about the stoop of the
house late Tuesday evening, and their
| behavior was such. neighbors said, that
they became objects Of curious observa-
| ton After lurking in the vicinity and
peering repeatedly into DIR. Tong's win
| dows they left the neighborhood
| The dead physician had come to the
United States five years ago. He was a
graduate of the Tientsin Medical Col
| lege, and took a postgraduate course
| here in the College Of Physicians and
Surgeons. He had been a medical Onicer
In the Chinese army before coming to
| law at New York University, and re-
ceived the degree of LII. b. there this
last June. During the second and third
Of his five years in this city DR.. Tong
Is Broadway.
No Motive for Suicide.
number of DIR. Tongs friends, MEM
bers of Chinese societies. the Oriental
Club Of Mott street and of various
| student bodies in town, came to his
| apartment today on hearing the news OF
his death. They said he had everything
| to live for and was in robust health
| They declared there was no motive for
| him to commit suicide and no natural
malady which would cause his death SC
suddenly. They declared. however that
| he had no personal enemies that they
| know Of DR.. Tong was about thirty
five years of age.
Although the coroner's Office was no.
titled. according to its own records. OF
| DIR. Tongs death at five minutes to IL
| O'Clock yesterday morning. there was no
representative Of the Office at the house
| at half-past ,. At that time Janitor
Wentzel telephoned the board of health
| telling them that the condition of the
| body was such that tenants objected to
| it's continued presence in the house
| Shortly afterward Coroner Hellenstein
gave an order over the telephone to have
| the body removed to the morgue.
| Coroners Physician Timothy p. Lelane
| was assigned by Coroner Hellenstein to
investigate the cause of death. Up to a
/ late hour he had made no report to the
| coroner's Office on the case. and 1t was
4 still listed on the coroner's blotter at "A
Lafayette street as a sudden" death.