Arizona republican., 1914-02-15
SOLUTION .0F W0NG'SOEATH.
Wong Fie and His Wife Are Still Held While In vestigation Proceeds - Posthumous Note Plays a Part


 Tie enter into a suicide pact as they
 sat over cups of tea late Frlday
 night, the Chinese barber keeping
 lis end of the bargain and the httle
 woman weakening at the last? or cid Wong Fie, believing that the man he had befriended and taken into his home five years ago, had won his wife away from him, steal upon him as he was sleeping and send a death dealing bullet crashing into his brain? These are the ques- tions District Attorney Frank Lyman and Sheriff Jeff D. Adams are en- 6eavoring to answer and thereby ar rive at q solution of the midnight tragedy discovered by the police at 22O East Madison street early yes terday morning.
 That the death of Wong Fong was the direct result of tong feud no person at all conversant with the | circumstances believes, it being cas- | fly perceived that there are but three persons concerned in the en- tire affair, Wong Fie, his wife ana | the dead man.
 | Early yesterday HOT IHIIS, tWO hours after the discovery of Wong | Fong's body lying upon his bed in 1 the screen room he occupied in Wong Fie's residence Wong Fie was taken into custody and locked up in 1 the county jail pending a thorough | investigation of the entire circum- stances. Fie claimed to have arrived | from MOrenci on the late train and
 to have gone directly to the rooms | Of the friend where he was found by the police The friend, another | Chinaman, told the authorities that | F'ie had come to his place about | 11:40 o'clock, which seems to have | been about ten minutes after the shot was heard that ended Wong Fong's life.
 Before he had been arrested, Po- liceman John McGrath made the dis Covery of more than a dozen cart
 ldges strewn upon the ground just outside the rear door of the Wong
 Fit home together with screw | driver which seems to have been | employed in forcing the door. This screWdriver Wong Fie admitted as his own, but denied knowledge of the manner in which it came to be out side of his rooms.
 Though strenuousIy denying any knowledge of the manner in which Wong Fong came to his death, Wong
 Fie said that on Tuesday evening
 his wife had presented him with two
 papers written in Chinese characters
 which he could not read. Wrapped
 in these papers were two Chinese
 coins and another one that had been
 broken in two pieces. He asked his
 wife the meaning of these papers
 She said that he would understand if he would get somebody to read them to him. He took them to the home of his friend who told him that they presented statement that she was tired of him and did not intend to live with him any longer Returning to his home he asked his wife if she was fully determined not longer to be his wife and she said that it was true. He then Jeff her and the next day, according tC his statement, he went to Moreno to notify the man from whom ht had secured his wife that she was leaving him. Just what was the purpose of this action does not ap- pear, but Wong Fie says it is thu custom of the Chinese. He present ed his marriage certificate yesterda, to show that he had been legally
 married to the little woman.
 But the most unexpected thin. cropping up in the case was whel Chief of Police Moore arrived at hi: office yesterday morning and du; I out a little note from his desk, pur ported to have been written b, Wong Fong and sent to a Lutheran minister. The note said:
 When I am killed, have Wong Fi arrested. WONG FONG." Mrs. Wong Fie yesterday main tained that her husband had threat ened to hire Mexcans to kill bot
 herself and Wong Fong. Both wer
 in fear that the threat would b carried out and for three day
 Wong Fong, laboring under that feai
 remained away from his barber shor
 It may be several days before tn inquest will be held. Coroner John
 stone being determined that ever,
 obtainable fact be secured before tn
 case is presented to his jury. At
 torney F. c. Struckmeyer has bee | retained to look after the interest
 of Mir. ard Mrs. Wong Fie, in cas either.