The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-01
OF HEAD CHINESE EDUCATIONAL
 MISSION AND TWO STUDENTS
Bodies of Dr. Wong and Two Chinese Students of the George Washington Uni versity Found in Home in Washington
B, A.,ocrs.d Prs,

WasnlngtOn, January 3l.- Washington police tonight were engaged in an attempt to solve the mystery of the kill ing of Dr. T. T. Wong, chief of the Chinese educational mis- sion to the United States, and c. H. Hsie and Ben Sen Wu, students at George Washing ton university, whose bodies were found tonight in their home in the fashionable Mount Pleasant section. They were last seen alive, last Tuesday.
 Absence of the two students from
 the university led . fellow stu
 dere. Kong II. whes itxss nearby. @
 to investixafe tonight. He entered
 the house through window ana
 found the body of Wpng on the Arst floor. Police were summoned and
 the bodies of the two students were
 found in the basement. All three
 men had been shot and physicians
 who examined the bodies said they
 probably had been killed Wednes-
 day.
 The pistol with which the men had been shot was found on chair near Dr. Wong's body. Traces of death struggle were in evidence A heavy brass table lamp lay on the floor among the shattered remnants of the shade and bulk. A chair In the din- ing room adjoining was overturned and a browne -colored elastic from garter was on the floor.
 The bodies of Hsie. who was secre- tary and treasurer of the mission, ana Wu. confidential secretary to Dr. Wong, were round lying head to head in the furnace room and evidently had been dragged there. gas watcr heater still was burning when officers entered the kitchen, which also is in the basement Blood stains were on the kitchen floor and the narrow stairs leading down to it.
 TWO BULLET WOUNDS pr. Wong had a deep gash in the
  wounds in the chest The pistol had been held so closely that the vest was scorched. Wu had one bullet wound in the head and another in the chest and Hsie had one wound in the head. The police are at loss for motive forsthe triple murder. There was no evidence that robbery had been com mitted and so far as they were able to established from the friends of the men. they had no enemies. The theory of the officers is that the two students l were killed first by some ono who l lurked in the house and that Wong was murdered later when he returned home.
 This theory is based upon several facts. The first is that Li went to the house Wednesday and upon ringing 1 the bell was told by a strange Chinese | that Dr. Wong was not at home. An- other is that there were only two dis charged cartridges in the pistol, whereas at least five shots were fired 1 into the bodies The officers think 1 that sufficient time elapsed between | the death of the students and of pr. 1 Wong for the murderer to hide the bodies of the first two and reload the | gun before pr. Wong reached the I house. l Officials at the Chinese embassy could throw no light on the mystery. Tsu-Li Sun. attache of the legation. who is a student at George Washing 1 ton university. missed Wu and Hsie from the university and it was at his suggestion that Ii called at the house 1 on Wednesday to inquire for Dr. l Wong. r The police have been furnished with a description of the strange man who answered the door and they are now 1 searching for him.
 ] Dr. Wong had been in Washington
 four years. coming here as the head of 1 the educa tional mission which Is
 charged with placing Chinese students 1 in universities and colleges in the I