Arizona republican., 1919-02-01
MYSTERY MURDER OF
 CHINESE OFFICIAL HOUSES WASHINGTON
Republican A. p. Leased wireJ

WASHINGTON. Jan Washing ton police tonight were engaged in an attempt to solve the mystery of the killing of Dr. Y. T. Wong, chief of the Chinese educational mission to the nited 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 a fellow student Kong Ii. who lives nearby, to investigate tonight. He entered the house through a window and found the body of Wong on the first floor. Police were sum monned and the bodies of the two stu dents were found in the basement All three men had been shot and physi- clans who examined the bodies said they probably had been killed Wednes- day.
 The pistol with which the men had been shot was found on a chair near Dr. Wong's body. Traces of a 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 dining room adjoining was overturned and d brown colored elastic from q garter was on the floor.
 The bodies of Hsie, who was secre- tary and treasurer of the Mission. and Wu. confidential secretary to Dr. Wong, were found lying head 10 head Tn the furnace room and evidently had been dragged there. A gas water heater still was burning when officers entered the kitchen, which also is in the basement. Blood stains were on he kitchen floor and the narrow stairs leading down to it. Dr. Wong had a deep Gash in the back of his head and two bullet wounds in the chest. Wu had one bullet wound in the head and another in the chest and Hsie had one wound in the head
 The police are a q loss for motive Tor the triple murder. There was no evidence that robbery had been com mittcd. The theory of the officers is that the two students were killed first by someone who lurked in the house and that Dr. Wong was murdered when he returned home.
 This theory is based upon several facts. The first is that Li went to the house Wednesday, and upon ringing the bell was told by a strange Chinese that Dr. wong was not at home. An other IS that there were only two dis i''+' 7 NA Cal ll 4NStS III 4l0e piSIOl. where as at least five shots were fired into the bodies. The officers think that sufficient time elapsed between the death Of the students and of pr. Wone Tor the murderers to hide the bodies ot he first two and reload their gur before Dr. Wong reached the house.
 Officials at the Chinese embassy could throw no light on the mystery Isu-Ld Sun, attache of the legation Who IS a student at George Washington university, missed Wu and Hsie iron the university and it was at his SUE gestion that Li called at the house or Wednesday 10 inquire for pr. Wong.
 The police have been furnished witt description of the strange man who answered the door and they now are searching for him
 Dr. Wong had been in Washington four years, coming here as the heat of the educational mission which i, charged with placing Chinese student, in universities and colleges in tn, United States.