New-York tribune., 1922-08-08
Tong Leader
And W oman
Shot i'm r etnd
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tORA9BI Nh IL CeASM
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in Chinatown but once before, either
of them, it appeared. They had just
dropped in at the Chinese Delmonico's
to get some chop suey and rice cakes
and tea, and as they came out the
shooting began.
'T told Kitty: Look out, there's
some shooting said Mrs. Malsdenden,
while Kitty nodded confirmation. "We
saw a Chinaman fall and then the
crowd got to pushing so about us that
we were pushed into a hallway, and
selves up here
According to the police, Kitty told
them later that she was not quite SO
much a stranger in Chinatown as Mrs.
Malsdenden had Joined her and they
there early in the evening, Kitty said,
and met Ko Low with whom she was
acquainted. At her invitation, Mrs.
Malsdenden chad poined her and they
had gone to the Chinese Deimonico' s
/ with 10 Low.
Two other Chinese had Joined them
at the table, she added and il was her
recollection that one of them had gone
| street just before they left the place
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7 Mrs. Malsdenden was taken to Beck
a man Street Hospital TO have her wound
I dressed, and then both women were
taken to the Oak Street police station
to be questioned further.
Ko Low had sat at big table near
a window. One woman had had chop
suey and one had had rice cakes and
tea. Detectives OLeary and Mex ettrick
had visited company rooms and board
ing houses across the street and peer
ing from the windows had discovered
that the big table was plainly visible
from several of them
Chief Assassin on Watch
1t was from one of these windows.
it is believed, that the boss gunrnan
watched the victim and directed his
men in the street below The fact that
one of the bullets hit Mrs. Malsdenden
in the foot leads the police to believe
that perhaps the watcher in the window
fired a shot or two.
Patrolman Barron, of the Oak Street
police station, picked up an automatic
pistol of German manufacture near
where Ko Low fell. Several shots had
been fired from it.
-Four cartridges were gone from
the clip and fifth had jammed at the
barrel. Near the weapon were found
a mans coat, straw hat, bunch of
keys, napkin and paper bag.
The police believe that the gunman-
and there may have been only one post
ed there they are inclined to think
held his pistol concealed in the paper
bag and had thrown the napkin over
that to disguise it even more thor
oughly.
Finger prints had been left in
smudges of blood on the paper bag
and have been photographed and en-
lerged. They will be compared with
the prints of the fingers of Lee Cow,
whom Detectives O'Hara and O'Leary
arrested on suspicion at his home, 81
Mott Street, after the shooting.
The detectives said that Lee Cow
had run to his room in a panic soon
| after the shots were fired, and that
when they arrested him his right hand
smelled of gunpowder.
a report which is being investigated
| is that Ko Low passed judgment in the
tong court recently on two members
of the organization who had drawn
pistols in a dispute in a .poolroom,
Such decisions sometimes breed i'll
! feeling in Chinatown.
Despite the exalted position he has
held Tor ten years, Ko Low is only
thirty-six years old. The headouarters
of his tong at Is Pell Street is almost
/ opposite where he was shot. A hostile
tong man in the old days scarcely
| would have dared to lay his ambush
In that quarter, but ancient boundaries
have faded and have been half for
4 gotten in the years of peace in China
town.
DR.. Fong Flu Long, peacemaker of
/ Chinatown, has been in his grave only
three weeks. He was friend of DR..
Sun iat Sen and of the venerable and
pacific Tom Lee, Mayor of Chinatown.
and persuaded their leaders TO sign
articles of peace before Warren ".
/ Foster, then judge of General Ses-
| sions.
Peace Finally Broken
/ The peace OF r'ong Flu Long spre-
vailed while breath was in his body.
There were shootings in Chinatown,
but they were sporadic affairs, matters
| OF private vengeance of gamblers.
grudes and gave rise to no tone wsSs.
| Chinese boys have grown int, man
hood since shots were exchanged bv
the gunmen of the Hip Sings and The
| On Leongs or of one Of those tongs
and the gunmen of the Four Brothers.
In spite OF the apparent evidence
| that the peace of Fong Fu Long had
been shattered and that another tong
war might be imminent, Lee Yee Hing
state president of the Hip Sing Tong
was positive last night that twas no
local Chinatown feud in which Ko Lew
had been shot Lee Yee Hing care
fully restrained from saying whether
national tong politics might not be in
volved in the shooting.
,r,, chinatown is at peace" he said.
| The union chiefs MESSAGE - NJ
Stone said W tAi'
The governments has arthor,4,v J..