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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-21

when the room was being put in
order.
The district attorney says he
took the suit case to the bank
''to get the money in" | do not
think anyone would take suit
case for $4,000. Perhaps for
100000, but certainly it would
make bank people smile or be
very suspicious to see someone
bring a suit case for $4,000, unless
he wanted it in silver or some
thing very unusual.
Meets Two Men
Van put me on a bench in the
station out of a draught and then
left me to- see about train and
tickets. When going to the ticket
window he saw the two Chinese,
p. T. Wong and Moy, in the door.
way of the mems waiting room.
They beckoned to him and asked
him if he would go to the bank
and cash check for them, that
they did not speak English and
needed money.
Van explained we were going to
New York but they insisted and
said IL they took a taxi it would
be quick. Once Van, when he
first arrived in Ohio, had a 5000
draft but no money in his pocket.
The bank people did not know him
and he had a hard time for q.
little while to get the draft cashed.
This impressed him so he did not
think this was strange request.
He did not know the distance so
was persuaded to go with this p.
T. Wong. Moy waited outside for
them and did not even see
them go.
HALEY was the, taxi driver who
drove them and said it was / with
my brother. He described me as
the big one with glasses and Van
as the smaller one who paid the
taxi bill. At that time / was very
thin there is testimony that 1
weighed only 109 pounds when adj
mitted to the Jail February IL,
1919
We were and are now about the
same height but Van was then
about 20 pounds heavier than i.
/ am now much heavier than
he. HALEY said he identified me
by . picture he saw published in
the paper.
This Is the picture taken about
a year before the mission tragedy.
When HALEY claims to have seen
me, must have looked more like
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-21
Circumst antiaI Web
Woven Around Wan

The Chinese Educational Mission.
officially administering the Boxer
indemnity fund for Chinese stu.
dents. was located In January. 1915
ct 1923 KaIOrama Road.
While. keeping "Open house, for
students directly connected with
the Mission, IL was also used as
rendezvous for diplomats, delegates
and transient Chinese. The only
permanent residents were DIR. z. T..
Wong, tile director; Chang I1si
Hsie. the treasurer. and Ben Sen
W. secretary. These were all per-
sOnal and intimate friends of Ziang
Sung Wan. who had recently been
q house guest at the Mission on
the invitation Of both DR.. Wong
and Mr.. WI.
On January 81, 1919, late In the
afternoon, Kang Ii, Government
medical student living across the
street from the Mission, having
been told by Tsu Ii Sun from the
LegatiOnl Of the latter's inability
to get into the Mission, and that
there might be something wrong,
entered the Mission through side
window and finding q covered body
on the floor, the prOtruding foot Of
which he says he recognized as be.
ing that of DR 4. +. Wong, he fled
from the house and telephOned the
Chinese Legation that Something
terrible had happened" He was
directed to find q policeman and
make an investigation. This he did
and q further discovery was made
Of the bodies Of Ben Sen Wa and
G. III. Ifsie. in the furnace room Of
the basement.
PISTOL FOUND
Wu's pistol was found near his
body with two empty shells fin IL.
A broken lamp, overturned table
and chair, bloody surroundings. ETC.,
indicated that considerable strug-
gle had taken place. eight bullets
having been fired, five of which
had lodged In the bodies of the vic.
tins. AUtopsies and evidence gath
cred later indicated that. all three OF
the men had met death late in the
night OF Wednesday, January 20,
or early in the morning Of Thurs.
day. January, 80. 1919.
kang Ii volunteered the In
formation that he had called at
the Mission Wednesday evening
between 6 and o'clock, and had
found there the recent house
guest, Ziang Sung Wan, who
stated that there was no one
home, and that he was leaving
shortly. kang Ii furnished Vans
New York address and accom-
panied the detectives to, New
York the night OF January 81.
and was brought to Washington
the following Saturday morning,
subsequently charged with the
crime and arrested.
Several days later 10 was
found that an effort had been
made on Thursday night, Jan
nary 30, by two Chinese, to
cash . check for $1,000 at the
Riggs National Bank. This check
purpOrted to be from the Chinese
Educational Mission, signed T.. +.
Wong and G. III. Hsie, and was
made payable to bearer. ThA
Chinese who presented this check
(which was never casheD was
later identified as Van, the
brother Of Wan, and the second
Chinese who had accompanied
him but remained outside I'm the
taxi, was later declared by the
taxi driver to be Wan. himself.
WENT TO BANK
Actually, Van acknowledged go.
Ing to the bank. but said that
he had been accOsted on Tues
day morning. January 80, by two
strange Chinese standing In che
doorway Of the mems room OF
the URiea Station and wheRa he
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but / do not believe bank would
give back any check so big if they
were suspicious about It. There
was plenty Of time to call detec-
tives and make an inquiry. Also,
IL my brother knew the check was
q forgery, he would not walt around
while they telephoned and talked
about this. As he said on the
stand, he would ''beat it,
Surely, I, too, would not wait so
long on the outside not knowing
what was happening to my brother.
/ would at least discharge the taxi
and get out Of sight until knew
whether or not there was any
trouble.
Even the stranger Wong would
not wait so long Il he thought
the check was not good. ! am
sure this check was good, or the
bank people would not be 80 polite.
I think they did not want to pay
50 much money to stranger.
Surely they would talk afterward
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went out for a short walk because
felt better, but it was cold and
we did not stay long.
Van went across the street and
rot q sandwich before going in,
which is the only thing we have
to determine the time, which
would be before midnight. The
bell-boy, Robert Zee Carter, re-
members our coming in and fixes
the time as Ebefore he put out his
lights" It was. his custom to put
out the lights before midnight.
The walk stirred me- up and
my pain began again, so Van
gave me a treatment which re-
heved me and we went to bed.
Our room did not have running
hot water, so we rang for this
and the fact has been verified by
the testimony. Van thought it
was q very inconverient place
and hard TO get things, SO we had
agreed to return to New York
In the morning.
We rose at 8 and abort 8 went
TO the station to see about trains.
We did not check out because we
thought / might still need the
room. Van carried the little suit
case because it had my jewelry
and some of his war savings
stamps. He thought it was not
safe to leave it in the hotel room
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passed on his way 70 the ticket
window after settling Wan, who
was sick, on d bench On the main
waiting room.
Van had encountered these
same two men the day before
"wednesday In the vicinity Of
the Hotel Harris, where he and
Wan were staying, and which Is
near the, Union Station. They
had introduced themselves a. d
4. Wong and 3 Mr.. MOy, and
insisted they had met Van when
he landed at Vancouver. Van
corrected them by saying he
landed at San Francisco, and
after q short walk and talk with
them, excused himself and re-
turned to the hotel.
EncOuntering them this second
time Thursday they again ap-
preached him and on the plea Of
their ignorance Of English, asked
him to act as interpreter In get-
ting q check cashed at the Riggs
Bank, saying they were short Of
money. Van, who had once been
i'm q similar predicament I'm Ohio,
was persuaded and accompanied
Wong to q taxi outside which
they directed to take them to
the bank, MOy saying he would
wait.
Van was carrying q small suit
case containing $500 i'm war saw.
ings stamps beside some vaIu-
able stickpins and other jeweIry
Of Vans which they had thought
unsafe to leave in their hotel
room. This small case he took
with him into the bank, leaving
the stranger, Wong, outside In
the taxi. After about 40 minutes
consideration by the bank Off
Gals, the envelope with the check
and letter was returned to him
with regrets and q suggestion
that he bring someone i'm with
him for further Identification.
HAVE ARGUMENT
Van returned to the taxi and
gave back to the alleged Wong
the envelope and contents and
they were driven back to the sta.
ton, stopping on the North Cap
itOl Street side OF the pOstOffice,
where they saw Moy waiting for
them. A heated controversy
arose between Wong and MOy in
3 dialect which Van could not
understand, so he paid the taxi
bill Of $3.50 or Whereabouts, and
hastened on to his brother I'm the
station, leaving the two Chinese
to their argument. Such is Vans
account of his trip to the bank.
AsCertaining the next possible
train, he and Wan hurried to the
Hotel Harris, paid the hotel bill
and checked out. En- route to New
York, Van, in addition to being
very angry with his brother for
the delay, was too niserabIy sick
to talk, and Van, an fnVeterate
smoker, went to the smoking car
where he stayed for most Of the
Thus IL happened that he failed
to tell Wan Of his trip to the
bank, and thus it happened that
when the detectives told Wan
Of the details of the crime. In
Guiding the story of the alleged
forged check, Wan frankly and
promptly said: "F'ind the man who
took the check to the bank and
you will find the murderer"
To his utter and disbelieving
CONSERVATION they replied, 1--WE
have the man who took the check
to the bank, it was your brother,
VanP'
And so. the web Of circumstan-
tiaI evidence was woven about
the two. woven so tightly and
strengthened 50 mercilessly that
one marvels to find ZiaAk Sung
Wan alive today
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hurried to the station to get tickets
and find me.
When he came. complained
about the long wait, so Van did
not discuss it but got tickets and
we had to hurry to the hotel, pack
and check out and catch the II or
lilo train.
Americans think two things very
strange. That Van would pay the
taxi man and that he did not tell
me about going to the bank. Van
is very kind-llearted. These men
told him they were short of cash.
He knew just what it was to have
check but no cash in pocket,
so when they got so excited talk.
ing to each other, It seemed quick.
err and easier to pay the taxi for
them and get back to me.
Silence on Check
Then we quarrelled about his
keeping me waiting so long. When
American brothers quarrel think
they have many words. but when
Van and / quarrel, we get mad
and have no words. So en- the
train. Van was in the smoking car
most Of the time and we lid not
talk. Then he forgot about it and
the first. knew OF his trip to the
bank was later from the detectives
Therefore, when they told me
the check had nothing to DO with
the murder, said, 1T has. you
find the man who went to the
bank and You will find the murder
er. And when they said they
knew who went to the bank and
that 1t was my brother Van, / ma.
turally thought they were telling
me another lie, because Van him
SELF. had never told me Of this.
We arrived in New York Thurs
day afternoon and while / went to
bed Van went out to buy some
things. He saw Mrs. BarteIs on
the street. so she knew we were
back and came up to see how j
was, the next morning. Friday ]
stayed IN the house and in bed
most OF the day. Saturday morning
Van brought In the morning paper
which told about the murder at
the mission house.
was shocked, so he went out to
get more papers to make sure.
had started to draft some kilograms
to Washington. when Kelly, Bur-
Iingame ana q New York detective
came In the room. pushing Mrs.
Bartels in front OF them.
Kelly and Burlingame each had
hands on their pistols and first each
took an arm Of Van. Mrs. BarteIs
went out and then they demanded
our pistols.
s :. n
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Another interesting section Of
the story Of Wan win appear
In The Washington Times t0nl0r-
row. He will ten OF his first
interview with the detectives, Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-21

Frogs have been discovered n
the Andes Mountains that carry
their young in pouches on their
backs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-21
Harmonious Aging Is
Claim For New
Science

LONDON, July 81. Control
Of genius, morals and sex by
chemistry IS possible in the near
future, declared ST. Alfred Mond
before the Society Of Chemical
Industry yesterday.
Recent discoveries in chem
istry Of the body should enable
us TO achieve, full senility. Most
people decay in parts. Our new
knowledge will enable us to de-
cay tremendously.
with knowledge Of the
mechanism and fabrication of
the body, we may be able to
achieve 4 costialance /of youth"
his trip back to Washington iii
their custody and or the trick
through which q sample Of his
writing was obtained. &
Frogs have been discovered 81
the Andes Mountains that carry
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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-12-17

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and friends What would
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-05
Sunday Concert at $3.50
Hour Changed because Mr.. TrOxell
Must Get to Greensboro

Because Charles Troxell, the
tenor, has to go to Greensboro
to fill an engagement in the eve
ming, the hour for the music de-
partment's concert day after to-
morrow (Sunday) afternoon is
set at 3:30-a half hour earlier
than usual.
Mr.. Troxell will be accompan-
led at the piano, at this Sunday
concert, by his twelve-year-old
daughter, Helena. Besides serv-
ing as her fathers accompanist,
she will play two groups of solos.
Mr.. Troxell has sung many
times in Chapel Hill, to the great
delight of his audiences. He is
in the music department facul-
ty this year, teaching voice two
days a week and assisting with
the training Of the Glee Club.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-05
Parties for the Club
Simultaneous Gatherings for Bridge
Playing and Tea Drinking

Bridge and tea parties, for the
benefit of the Community Club,
will be held at several homes
throughout the village Friday
afternoon, November 19,-two
weeks hence. The bridge play
ing starts at half past three
O'Clock, and the tea-drinkers
gather at four.
The bridge hostesses who will
receive at their homes are Mrs.
r. M. Grumman, Mrs. P. J.
Weaver, Mrs. j. E. Lear, Mrs.
Merritt Lear, Mrs. H. f. Conner,
Mrs. j. B. Bullitt, Mrs. r. S.
McCorkle, and Mrs. H. d.
Carter, and GOintly) Mrs. r.
H. Wettach and Mrs. J. C.. By
mum.
The tea hostesses are MIS-. S.
E. Leavitt, and Mrs. Wheeler
(at Mrs. Leavitt's) ; Mrs. j. A.
Warren and Mrs. r. C. Andrews
(at Mrs. Warren's) and Mrs.
Prouty and Mrs. Terry (at Mrs.
Prouty's).
The price for bridge is so
cents a plate and for tea 25 cents
or more. The object of the enter
prise is to raise at least $50 for
the activities of the various de-
partments.
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House Moves on Campus
Contractors Offices Make a Trek
Work Goes on as Usual

The little one-story frame
structure serving as headquar-
ters for T. c.. Thompson & Co.,
the University contractors, has
been moved from the position it
occupied for four or five years
Just behind the medical build
ing.
1t was put on rollers and TAX
en- across the railroad track to
the grove down to the rear of
Murphey hall. Where it stood,
on the road leading to the ath-
letic field, it was rather too con-
spicuous. Now it is hidden from
the view of visitors.
During the moving operation
the contractors Office staff kept
at their work without Interrupt
ton. When they reported for
duty in the morning the build
ing would be twenty-five or fifty
yards from where it had been
when they quit the night before.
But, once they were seated at
their desks, the only thing to
tell them they were ION their
travels was an occasional slight
tremor. The heating, the cleo
trio lighting, and the telephones
were not interfered with.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-05
To Finish Big Room
At Work on Lower Floor of Graham
Memorial

The assembly room on the
main floor of the Graham Mem
orial is to be finished. This de-
cision was reached last week by
the committee in charge, and at
the direction of President Chase
the University architects have
begun work on the plans.
The room is about 80 feet
long by 40 feet wide. 1t will
have oak paneling and beamed
ceiling, and at each end will
be a great fireplace bordered
in limestone Chairs, settees,
and tables will be placed about
the floor. Designed as it is to
serve as a general gathering
place for the students, it's dom
inant note is to be solid COM
fort.
1t is probable that a portrait
Of Edward K. Graham, in whose
memory the building was erect
ed, will occupy the wall space
above one of the fireplaceS.
Not enough money is yet a.
vailable for the completion of
either the rooms at the ends of
the main floor or the rooms on
the upper floor.
The ground around the build
ing is to be cleared and planted
in grass.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-05
Carter in Cyclone
Writes to His Parents of Exciting
Experience in Cuba

P. D. Carter, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. D. Carter, was in Ha-
vana, Cuba, when the city was
struck by a cyclone recently, and
in a letter to his parents he tells
something of his experiences.
ITO tell you all about the cy-
Clone" he writes, would take
more time than l have; but it
was rather awful and the city
is a wreck. Some say worse
than Miami. | was on the 7th
floor of an apartment house near
the sea when the thing started.
l was with May Belle and Earle
(Mr. and Mrs. Earle Thomp-
SOM. We watched the chande-
lier swing in ever-increasing
circles, the coffee in our cups
sloshed about. Then we went
down to the lobby. The barom-
eter dropped. the wind and rain
increased, the barometer kept on
dropping, windows came in, and
the elevator shaft was a deluge.
We could hear roofs of nearby
houses go, trees and poles snap,
and the barometer kept creeping
down, down, down. We were
standing in water to our ankles
in the lobby, women began to
be hysterical, | had to get out
side. BY hanging on to a pill
lar l could stand, but could only
see half way across the street,
which was roaring river.
Whole trees would come tum-
bling along and planks go fly
ing through the air. The men
who had the barometer said it
only had six more points to go
and the pointer would be off the
scale. Well, it was like that for
what seemed days; it really last
ed at it's height from about 8
to /. 1t was a blessing 1T hap
pened in the day time. Of course,
the lights went off the first
thing. | haven't bathed or shay
ed for some time-no water ;
and shaving in beer is not so
good-leaves you feeling sticky"
Mr.. Carter went to Cuba a
few months ago to take a posi-
ton with the telephone company
! in Havana. He had orders to
go to Spain at the end of Octo-
Der, but the orders were cancel
ed and he remains in Cuba.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-11-05
CELEBRATION OF
ARMISTICE DAY
NEXT THURSDAY
Judge w. M. Bond to Deliver Ad-
dress; One-HOur Suspen-
sion of Class Work
MIR. CHASE WILL PRESIDE

The University and Chapel
Hill will celebrate Armistice
Day next Thursday, November
II.
Half past ten is the hour set
for the exercises in Memorial
Hall. Classroom work in the
University will be suspended
from eleven to twelve o'clock.
The ceremonies are held un-
der the joint auspices of the
University and the Chapel Hill
post of the american Legion.
President Chase will preside.
Judge w. M. Bond of Edenton
will deliver the address.
While the audience assemblies
the band will play famous war
time selections such as "Over
There" Keep the Home Fires
Burning" and Pack up Your
Troubles in the Old Kit Bag"
Rev. A. S. Lawrence, chaplain
of the Legion post, will say the
invocation. Addison Hibbard,
dean of the college of liberal arts
will read the roll-call of Univer-
sity men who lost their lives in
the World War, and J. O. Har-
mon, commander of the Chapel
Hill post, will read the roll-call
Of the Orange county dead. The
National hymn will be sung.
George Lawrence will blow
Taps on the bugle, and then,
exactly at II o'clock there will
be. two minutes of silence.
Judge Bonds address will be
followed by the National An
them and the Benediction.
Arrangements for the celebra-
tion are under the charge of
joint committee from the Uni
versity and the Legion post: Col.
Eric Abernethy, DR.. J. B. Bullitt,
John M. Booker, j. 0. Harmon,
Carl Durham, and H. R. Totten.
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Defeat of John 7. Fowler Is
Triumph for Hi1lsboro over
Chapel Hill on Road Question

was over he had, in. Chapel Hill,
AIT votes against McCauley's 76.
But it was not enough-not
even with the plurality of 149
that he won oven McCauley in
Carrboro. In all the other Is
precincts of the county McCaul-
ey led him. In Hillsboro the
vote was McCauley 356, Fowler
1856; in Efland, McCauley a121,
Fowler "a; in Coles Store pre-
cinct, McCauley 81, Fowler 19S
in Cheeks Crossing precinct,
,McCauley 70; Fowler 81; in
Toler's precinct, McCauley 60,
Fowler s.
In two or three precincts that
are often heavily Republican,
1.-THE Republicans did not go to
the polls Tuesday. For instance,
in Caldwell Fowler ran only
three votes ahead of McCauley,
whereas previous elections
might have justified the expec-
tation that he would have from
Is to 100 plurality. In Rock
Springs, which is commonly con-
sidered a Republican section,
McCauley led Fowler by three
votes.
With two or three of the
smaller precincts still missing,
McCauley's plurality over Fowl
er was estimated at about 100.
The campaign for Fowler in
Chapel Hill was a sort of last
minute affair. 1t was prosecut-
ed with considerable zeal, but
not with great thoroughness.
Many citizens didn't know any
thing about it until the election
was all over. Some who meant
to join in the bolt forgot to go
to the polls.
Then there were the rock
ribbed, hereditary Democrats
who just couldn't bring them
selves to commit such terrible
treason as scratching the tick
ct. Not few were heard to
say: 81 hope Fowler will be
elected, but,-well, no, | don't
Continued on page taOo)
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MIR. McDaniels Here

J. H. McDaniels of Geneva, N.
Y, who made many friends
in Chapel Hill on his previous
visits, arrived yesterday for a
stay of a few weeks at the home
of Mrs. Julia C. Graves. The
Rev. Mr.. Barber and Mrs. Bar
Der brought him over from Ra-
leigh by automobile. Mr.. Nc.
Daniels was a professor in Ho-
bart College but retired from
active duty several years ago.