The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-05
The ANALYSIS
0naations I3O-137 IncIusive

when Or. wong came into tbs
i kitchen, I was sitting at the kitchen
4 table near the gas range. WI Wa
s Sssore4kitclaen sirsk-zaiTnost the sans
i place he stood when he shot Mr. Hglo
ne (Dr Wongl did not speak e 10
when he sans IN cor,a As go. ssi0 .r g 2.
4 this last part-come back again--he
/ did not say that Che did not have tirns
to finishl a fired ,,r saink IA one ru shcs
upstairs. WI followed him upstairs
i ana struggled with him.
Not q motive or an excuse fol
| killing DR. Wong. WI just shoot
| Ing in cold blood. Not even the
/ feeble hate motive that II dragged
lin to justify the killing Of Mr, Hsie.
| However. the greatest weakness d
the whole impossible story appears
here.
Tkere was very narrow circular
stairway leading from the Kitchen
up through the house with door
from IT leading into DIR. Wongss
office which was the rear room on
| the main floor (the intended dln'
ling.rOom or the house, Tbs star.
way ii so narrow and winding lnal
TIC would be difficult for two people
Ito pass each other on It. AZ the
tIOOL 3
| the kitchen was found a bloody
| handkerchief marked Wong IN
two places, and a pair Of spectacies
| which were afterwards always re.
| ferred to as DR.. Wong's glasses.
There was also q blood trail on
| this stairway. The handkerchief
was exhibited In each trial and 4
was always assumed to be DR..
| Wong's handkerchief. The glasses
were never shown.
The detectives, knowing ABOUT
the handkerchief, the eye glasses
and the blood trail. fasten upon the
theory that DR.. Wong twho was
shot twice. received the first shot
| while in the kitchen, then pre-.
s,ifnably dropping his glasses and
handkerchief at the foot OF the
stairs. he rushes up stairs with WI
| after him. leaving q trail Of blood
I'm his wake. Upstairs terrific
fight takes place and DIR. Wong 4
finally overcome.
It should be known in this CON
nection that Mr.. WI was an un.
usually small man. am about 8
feet 9 inches, and Mr.. WI came up
ia NV shoulder only. ] do not know
This weight, but happen to know
| that he wore q No. s shoe. DR..
wong. on the contrary, was tall and
muscular. He weighed about $50
pounds, and was known as an attn
iete and wrestler. Mr.. WI would
rot have the slightest chance In 3
thand-to-hand encounter with him.
IL DR.. Wong had been In the
kitchen when he received the first
shot. and was capable Of putting up
the terrific fight he had upstairs.
he would not have rum away from
WI, who was puny in comparison
but would have turned on him tRen
and there and In two minutes would
have wrenched the pistol from him
and the fight would have at least
ended in the kitchen, not on the
main floor.
II in as impossible that DR.. Wong
would have run away from WI ~
| Il was preposterouS for WI to
tackle DR.. Wong at all. Later on,
when the Government had been Tor
hidden by the Supreme Court to use
This alleged confession, and the
theories in it are totally abandoned.
the Government then attempts to
show that I did to DR.. Wong what
fthe detectives have me say WI did.
Either theory Is equally absurd.
Neither of US could have engaged In
that great struggle without visible
Injuries and neither OF US could have
finally overcome DIR. Wong under
any circumstances.
Here is the 'coroner's description
OF DIR. Wongs body as given on the
witness stand: "Incised wound or
cut on the right forehead. about
two inches long, extending to the
| periosteum or the skin covering the
bone; such q wound is caused 10y
o. sharp instrument; there was an
abrasion on top of the head and
forehead and abrasions in the back.
three or four in the back of the
head: abra sions on the back Of the
right hand and wrist: abrasions are
simply where part OF the skin l:
destroyed but not through the true
skin, like a scraping wound, caused
by some object coming in violent
contact with the tissues; there were
two gun-shot wounds. one through
the heart about the third rib. and
the other a little before the fourth
rib. which is the axilla; one bullet
was found lodged in the right lung
and the other almost down diagon
ally across the body to the seventh
rib in the tissues OF the muscular
tissue over the lung"
In q subsequent trial and testi
Inony large bruise on the chest
as long as a mans hand, was also
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