New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-10
WOMAN TONC'S LAWYER
Miss Mi|hO|Iand to Defend
Chinese Held for Murder.
FIRST OF FOUR TO BE TRIED
State Hopes to Prove Local Up
risings Have Nation Wide
Significance.

\ remarkable murder trial opens TINS
morning before Judge Foster in General
I Sessions Gee Dol Yuns. one of -four chi
nese charged with first degree murder, -
the defendant Miss Inez Milholand. on"
OF the best known sunragettes Of Now
/ York. will assist James w Osborne iof
the defence. II viii be- her debut nm the
J criminal courts. lunG was one or tne
I ON Leong men that opened revolver
+, fusllade on the Hip Sings In Pell street
near Doyers, on the afternoon of October
II. The shots resulted Ia the death az
five men. two OF whom were white.
According TO Mr. Breckenridge. Assist
ant District Attorney. who worked mp the
, case. the prosecution will 20 into the
tong end of these murders. Mr.. Wasser-
vogel. Assistant District Attorney, VINO
will present the peoples ease. SAYS that
it will be the first time that this phase
II Chinatown's ever-recurrng murders
has been placed before jury. Usually
the Cinnamon arrested for shooting are
arraigned as individual murderers, and,
in the absence of white witnesses. con
viction is difficult This time there VIII
bee white witnesses
M. Wasseryogel. II the court allows.
will try To show that the tong outbreaks
| in New Norks yellow belt west of Park
/ Row are not local disturbances. hut are
ir,ally parts of countrywide uDrisings be-
tween the ON Leongs and the Hip Sings.
ON the day before the murders the grand
| Jury of this county indicted two Zip
Sings. En- Hing and Lee Dock. Tor muir
| der They are now boz the death house al
Sing Sing Mir Wassorvogei is satisfied
that the ON Leones. desiring TO celebrate
their victory as they regarded the acton
of the grand iury-by still further dem
onstrations. sent eight of their men out
through Pen street on murder bent
Accordingly. Mr. Wasservogel wrote 10
the police Of Philadelphia. and was told
that gun play and assaults prevailed on
October Il in that city. and the CHICAGO
police wrote back that there were con-
temporaneous assaults with numerous ar
rests there Since that time tho police
have been watching chinatown very care
fully Five raids have been made on the
/ tong headquarters and eight Cinnamon
have been arrested and four have been
convicted for carrying concealed weapons.
The October warfare came Ike bolt
out of a clear shy. Visitors were wend-
/ ing their way in Pen and Doycrs streets
when a shot rang ont through the as
trct. Others followed in rapid success
] sion until Pell street. half way To Mott,
was hidden under a mantle ~ blue smoke.
4 Chinaman popped his head over the
railing OF second story piazza on tn
] NJ. l.iI ~
To- take a look. and fen back dead.
/ \ Russian blacksmith who was htung
: "a lock Ar 80 % Pei street fell headlong
ON 10 the sidewalk with bullet in ms
I brain An Italian laborer. hurlyins down
! poyers street. staggered into Park Row
and fell dead with blood streaming from
his heart Two other Cinnamon fen that
afternoon and several bystauders we're
badly wounded.
! The companions OF Gee Dol Ylug 500"
were indicted. were Hung Fune. am ON
cong. AID "hu Quot and bu WAY 1872
Sings They elected 90 be tried s'ra-
/ rately
The chinese witnts-c~ told the grand
/ Jury that the outbreak grew out OF ihc
occipancv of "A new binding that took the
pla,e Of row of opium joints that
! stretched between No. IS and No p f'h
street Tho ON Looms. they said. f0ii
| that the HIp Sings were getting th' bot
ter II them I'm the selection of rents
In the present court term three china
men have been convicted 81 first degree
murder. and are now under sentence "t
death They are Eng lIng. lee Dock
and Yuns Hing
The defence of Gee DO. yong VIII pc
an alibi. a. is customary