New-York tribune., 1922-08-08
Ko Low Attacked by Cum
men i'm Front of Chinese
Delmonico's; Pretty
Diner Also Is Wounded
Chinatown Peace
Is Broken at Last
Mystery in Presence of
2 White Women i'm Hip
Sing Chiefs Quarters

Ko Low, national president of the
Fip Sing Tong for ten peaceful and
prosperous years, with a young and
pretty white woman on either arm,
stepped confidently into Pell Street
from the brilliantly festooned entrance
of the Chinese Delmonice's about 3
\ sxascK last night and was shot down
Eby Chinese gunmen.
The luminous haze which half wells
and half reveals the tortuous streets
Of Chinatown when shops and restau-
Yants are brightly lighted in the early
evening was rent by'the flashes of at
least three pistols, witnesses said later.
as the youthful and opulent head of
the Hip Sings stepped into the street
which has been Hip Sing territory for
generations and on which he owns at
least one building.
dozen shots were fired, it is esti-
mated, the reports overlapping each
other and reverberating in the narrow.
crowded street. The sudden din was
succeeded by an equally sudden silence.
no Low fell sprawling in the gutter
IN MS immaculate and freshly
En2hsh tweeds. Two or three figures
IN Gark biouses melted into the shad-
ows OF the beetling houses. A listless
breeze caused the powder smoke to
whiri and drift lazily away.
Police Pour Into Quarter
For the breath in which such th;nos
could be noted Pell Street was frozen
into this tableau. Then womsn
screamed and another and another.
chinese voices sounded shrill and
nasal, and in the intervals could be
heard the padding Of felt slippers and
the rustic and surge of the crowd.
Chinese and sightseers mingled. as
tney strove some to get clear of the
confusion and some to press forward
Tor better view.
Then came the resonant and imnera-
i've tattoo of nightsticks on fiagstones,
s 'he shrllllng OF police whistles and the
pcunding OF heavy feet as patrolmen
the OAK Street police station spread
,he alarm and ran toward the sound of
Inc shots. VI
ko Low lay twitching in the gutter.
~ Chinese part of the crowd, which
had choked the street moment before,
fad melted away, though furtive move
ments OF gay curtains in scores of
oFeriooking windows indicated their
NHsNASSS lIt bIlt event.
oniy one of the numerous bullets
fired had struck Ko Low. The Chinese
gsnman IS generally poor marksman.
tkt fact that one in a dozen shots had
struck 10 Low was proof enough for
tne police that the bushwhackers had
neen within a few feet of him. even
without the black rim of burnt powder
which surrounded the neat hole in the
back Of his trim coat.
The bullet had entered his back on
me right side. He was taken to Beck
Ian Hospital and is near death. He
doclined. however, to throw any light
on the shooting and protested family
mar ne had no knowledge of his assail-
ants He had $1,000 in currency in
mis- pocket and wore jewelry worth
mary thousands more, none of which
mad been touched.
Peli Street swarmed with detectives.
a big department automobile from
headquarters charged through the
rraffow street and deposited Acting
snlef Inspector Dominick Henry, who
'ock charge of the investigation.
Two Women in the Case
1t was not long before the porrce
tsJ tsSiu ABOUT the two white women who
had dined with Ko Low. Some said thay
had caught glimpse of skirts fashinr
up the stairs in Ko Lows house at il
lovers Street, which is at the corner
~ Pell Street and diagonallv across
st thoroughfare from the Chinese
eelmonico's. niieSe
.besa Mv Low @ runs a., sailors boarding house
;nere n and likewise conducts an import
ont ana exporting business. His liv;no
+ d;rhts 1gIters s. are on the top floor, three
me detectives climbed tho +,sroo
aoor tS panel in polite Chinese fashion nav apd !
80 s,,T aoor was opened, disclosing two
contemplating the great toe ''1' of Ias has
VIZ arsh' ! joo5 with some anxiety. The toe toe
SnIs Ss pdieedlng, and there was a hullet
table. 'loe she mad put on a
Ma,ns Inc women said they were Mrs. Mae
iil;a,suenoen i;~oS ei aen and Kitty Ravenette. and
hsu M,s AZ st 2o3 West Eighty fourth Street
w. aS, Maisdenden was the one who was
bv@nueo' b,,t Both of them were scared.
tbe ISs NOT not too scared to be indignant at
h,d s assumption of the police that thew
tbrso sought shelter in Ko Lows room 3
saoa sl1augh familiarity with the neighbor-
.s;d i was "; nothing like that at all, they
'a'a IN unison. They had never been
'Ocntinued on next paae)