Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-14

by LEWIS ManOldctuFinR 20
Theodore r. Waggoner. employ
ed by Pennsylvania Electric Co.
Barthold J. linmm. manager,
Traffic Surface Corporation.
York city. where they lived. Wan,
the defendant, was seen the next morn
ing.
DR. Sun of the Chinese legation,
who also attended George Washing
ton University. had not seen WI and
Hsei since the 18th at the university
He missed them Thursday and Friday
and returned to the legation. lie
called the mission and got no response.
Then he got Kang Ii TO inquire at
the mission, and kang Ii went there
at O'Clock that night and discovered
The body of DIR. Wong.
ION the morning of the Both the let
ter carrier went TO the house on three
different occasions. The milk had not
been taken in. newspapers were in the
doorway and a small light burned In
the hall. A messenger boy with a
special delivery letter also failed TO
get response
"kang Ii, when he went to the
house at pm. saw a window open
about one-half inch. Looking
through II, he saw lying in the hall
between the front room and the back
room the form Of DR.. Wong. He
called the police, who. after an in
spection. found Ben Sen WI and
HSeI lying in the basement between
the furnace room and the rear. Their
heads were almost together and a
number OF gunshot wounds We're in
, the bodies of each. A .32-ca liber
revolver was lying near WI. Elk
aminations revealed they had been
dead more than Sc hours.
At midnight police and kang Ii
went TO New York. arriving on the
LIST. They went 10 the roomiDg house
OF Mrs. Barten. The entered Vans
room and found him dressed in hLS
ned, wearing gloves and gray sweat
er and with q number of New York
pa pers. describing the crime. before
him. Told by Detective Buringa me
of the crime. the defenda nj said he
had just read about il and WAS draft
ing q telegram of coincidence TO kang
Ii with the pencil and paper which
he held in his hands.
Tells of Movements.
Asked when he left Washington.
Wan said the 2Ith-he was supposed
TO have left but registered at the
hotel. kang Ii was brought in and
he told of having seen Wan on the
18th. Burlingame then asked Wan
when he left and Wan replied he left
on the 18th. The matter of returning
to- Washington WAS discussed and
Wan said he would like to come along
kang Ii said he ought to come as
YOU were the last seen and suspicion
rests on YOU
Wan. the defenda MT, then said he
had no railroad fare but the de
tectives agreed that they would pay
it. He then said that he was not
feeling well. but Kang Ii assured
him he would look after his welfare.
They arrived in Washington at
pm. saturday. and were taken to
400 Fifteenth street, now used as a
diet kitchen for the District of Co
lImbia government. Maj. Pullman.
then superintendent Of police. asked
when Wan left Washington"
Mr.. Lambert objected TO the Dis
trict of Columbia attorneys relating
converse ton at that time, but Justice
Wendell Phillips Stafford said he
could trust MIR. Gordon to tell just
what occurred.
Mr.. Lambert then noted an excep-
ton and Mai. Gordon continued with
his statement.
Discussing the conversation with
Wan and Maj. Pullman. Mr.. Gordon
sd i'd that Wan told him he had dined
with Mr. WI and the latter had gone
to the station with him and he took
the sis train for New York. Maj.
Pullman was said by Mai. Gordon to
have informed Wan that there was
no sis train for New York at that
time. and further. the police knew
Mr.. WI had dined with some one
else.
Defense Will Wait.
When Maj Gordon concluded his
opening statement Attorney Wilton j.
Lambert. chief counsel for the prisoner
announced that the defense would re
serve its statement until the conclu
sion Of the testimony to be submitted
by the Government.
The first witness for the prosecution
was Dr. kang Ii who is a practicing
physician in China and returned to
America last November to testify in
this case. kang Ii was called to tell
OF the finding of the bodies of DR.. r
r. Wong. director of the Chinese
Educational Mission; Chang II. Hsie
secretary treasurer of the mission, md
Ben Sen WI, an undersecretary, and
was examined by Assistant United
States Attorney Horning.
ing of the bodies and of identifying
them to policemen. detectives, and to
Dr. F.. W. Titus. former deputy coro'
ner of the District. he was excused
with the statement by Mr.. Hornine
that the witness would later in the
trial he recalled to tell of other cir.
cumstances of the case. Attorney
Lamber, let the witness go. declaring
that he would reserve his cross
examination until the witness had
completed his entire testimony.
DIR. E. W. Titus, former deputy
coroner, was the second witness. and
told of having the bodies identified
| to him. but thought the Identification
took place at the morgue and not
at the mission, as claimed by the pre-
ceding witness. Horning asked Titus
to detail the result of his autopsy
| on the body of DR.. Wong. Lambert
objected, claiming that the prosecu
| ton should be limited to the autopsy
on the body of Ben Sen WI, with
| whose killing the prisoner is charged
Justice Stafford overruled the objec
! ton and the defense noted an eXcep
| ton Titus was still on the stand
| wh,Al the court took the noon recess
RED CROSS SENDS $4,000