The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-28
CH|NAMAN
DETAILS
CRIME
Tells Remarkable Story of Tri-
angle, Blaming Filipino.
Woman May Recover.

w I11lC OCCCCC1NOS anu HO"SpeA-
permen sat silent, inwardly mar
yelling at the detail and coher-
ence of his narrative, twenty-five
year-old Raymond Lee, Christian
Chinese, sat in the squad room of
the Sixth precinct station today
and told the tale Of his wife's
shooting.
Has Chance to Live.
She is an American woman, four
years older than Lee, and she lies
at Emergency Hospital, the spark
of life alternately glowing and
fading. in response to the pangs
OF bullet wounds through her body
and arms. Lee shot her at 10
O'Clock last night in their rooms
at 316 C street northwest. She has
just a chance to live, having rallied
a bit from an abdominal operation
early this morning.
There was little girl, Ellen Lee,
the couples daughter, present when
the husband emptied a revolver
against the wife. The child was
partially the cause for the tragedy,
according to Lee. Forty miles off,
in Annapolis, was the man Lee
calls the prime factor in the affair.
He is Brigade Ocampo, a Filipino
steward on board the receiving ship
Cumberland at the Naval Academy.
Ocampo came between the pair,
says Lee. The love given him by
q white woman for nearly five
years turned toward a member of
another race which Lee declares he
despises. Lee spent almost eight
days running between Washington
and Annapolis, looking for the wife
and child, and taking them down
to see Ocampo in the attempt to
iron matters out.
Find Woman on Steps.
The Sixth precinct received a rush
call last night. Policemen Cheney
and Mckinney hurried to the G.
street establishment, a boarding
house run by the Lees. There they
found a weeping Chinese clutching
a little girl. On the steps of the
woman, and behind her a trail of
blood.
This was the solution fate brought
to the troubled Lee. He claims he
remembers nothing Of the shooting.
"One minute she was nagging
me and haunting me, as I sat on
q couch in our rooms" he perforated
In his hour-long statement today.
THE next I was standing with
smoking revolver in my hand. I
noticed it was empty and / saw my
wife staggering out to the hallway.
Then l knew / must have shot her.
was mad"
Mrs. Lee was Ellen r. Tallant.
Of Westmoreland county, Va. She
and Lee were married in New York
and settled here about three years
ago. Lee, besides being an expert
mechanic has done Interpreting
work, and ekes out returns from
the boarding house by driving a
taxicab, the only Chinese hacker in
Washington. His father was
Methodist, his mother a Catholic.
His statement was punctuated by
such affirmations as Before God"
Tells Story in Detail.
Capt. Robert e. Doyle, of the
Sixth precinct, brought Lee out of
his cell this morning, and after
warning him that anything he said
might be used in evidence" left
him to 'newspapernen and detec-
tives. Then Lee for one solid hour
gave his story.
He was certain Of the events of
the past eight days down to hours
and minutes, according to him.
Mrs. Lee had known the Filipino
Ocampo for some years, he de.
clared, but he suspected nothing
wrong until she went to ANNAPOLIS
SUNDAY week ago. She went
back again Wednesday, returning to
Washington the next day, said
Lee.
Saturday night she started down
again, he continued, and Sunday he
accompanied her. They inter
viewed Ocampo inside the academy
reservation and Lee offered to
beat him up if he ever caught
him outside" after handing him
back a revolver and bullets which
Ocampo had given his wife.
Wanted His Daughter.
The theme to which Lee constant.
ly returned was that he loved his
little daughter, my flesh and
blood" and that if his wife insisted
on leaving him for Ocampo, ne want
ed the kid to remain with him. He
sounded about as little as possible
like an Oriental, as he dwelt upon
this love.
While the connectedness of his
statement was remarkable, the facts,
as advanced by him, were nothing
out of the ordinary run Of these tri-
angular affairs, save in Lees avoid
ance of trouble with his wife's al
legged paramour. and his willingness