Evening star., 1928-10-16
TONGMAN IS HELD
IN CHINESE DEATHS.
On Leong Member to Face
Grand Jury in War Among
Capital 0rientalS.


.sstv:sue that saw two men shot
10 death ana Two more wounded in the
headquarters of the Hip Sing Tong,
325 Pennsylvania avenue, late Sunday
afternoon, a coroner's jury sitting at
the morgue, holding for the grand jury
Lee Loi, 25-year-old member OF the
On Leong Tong, as one of the gunmen
responsible for the killing.
With his dying breath, Joe Fook
.Tung. one of the victims, had accused
Loi: the latter had set up an alibi,
declaring that at the time of the shoot
ing he was in a stronghold OF the On
I,eongs. ancient enemies of the Hip
Sings, at sl8 Pennsylvania avenue.
Today Chang Lung, member OF the
Hip Sings, who operates laundry at
I36 d street southwest, appeared at the
inquest and positively identified Loi,
as one of the gunmen, he placed at
three in number, who entered the Hip
Sing Headquarters, where store is
operated. blazed away at the occupants,
and hurriedly disappeared. Chang
Lung picked Loi out from crowd OF
Chinese who were present at the m
Quest today. He said he saw Loi fire
two shots. Lung walked through the
crowd of Chinese in the courtroom in
an unsuccessful effort to identify sec
orid member of the trio.
His testimony was given through an
INTERPRETER, Frank Quan OF Wardman
Park Hotel. Lung said he had been 10
a moving picture show Sunday after
noon and that he went to the Hip Sing
Tong headquarters about three minutes
before the shooting. He said ne was
standing at the counter making pur-
chase when the gunmen walked IN.
Eager to Give Version.
Tnnp anpeared almost eager to give
r,is version of the shooting, in decided
contrast to nearly all of the other
Chinese interviewed by police, VINO
have stolidly maintained that they
know nothing of the cause 1or the
shooting and could not recognize any
of the three men. Loi heard the tsS-
tirnony unmoved.
Tieut. Edward J. Kelly OF detective
HEADQUARTERS, head OF the nomlcloe
SQUAD. was called to the stand as tne
second witness and told the jury tnat q
Chinese named Lee Fong, VINO was IA
another member of the invading party
did not recognize Loi.
Lieut.. Kelly said that police had oeen
unable to find Park, who is stlli SougnC'
Joe Yuke Poy, 22-year-old son OF Joe |
Took Tung. told Lieut.. Kelly that ne |
saw Lei and three other Chinese leave |
317 Pennsylvania avenue few minutes |
before his father was slain.
Policeman r. j. Frazier OF the sixth |
precinct testified that Lee Chong, l25
Fifteenth street southeast. the second |
victim, made a statement to him Just |
before he died, in Casualty Hospital, to !
the effect that he also recognized Lee
Park as one of the three gunner. The |
officer quoted him as saying that Park
had revolver in each hand and hred
half a dozen shots. Frazier, who was
the first person to enter the building
after the shooting, said one of the dead
men was lying in front of the door and
that the other, fatally wounded, was
In rear room.
Lee Yen Deco, 1915 Thirteenth street.
one of those wounded, was sitting on
a barrel, while the other, Lee Ong, 324
Pennsylvania avenue, was walking up
and down the room with his hanG |
cIasped over q bullet wound in his |
leg. Deco is now in Casualty Hospital |
suffering from a bullet wound In the |
right hip, while Ong is In Emergency |
Hospital
Several other witnesses who had been |
summoned by the district attorney were 4
present, but did not testify. About 25 |
members of the Hip Sing Tong attend |
ed the hearing, but no representative |
of the On Leong Tong was In the
room.
Ioi was represented by Attorney |
Charles W. Arthur, while James O'Shea |
appeared In behalf of relatives of the |
dead men.
Heavily barred doors and windows !
throughout the Capitals Chinatown"
today gave witness to the tension still
prevailing there as the result of the
shooting.
Nor was the terror among the city's
Oriental population confined to those
living along lower Pennsylvania avenue.
Chinese maintaining establishments in
other parts Of the city asking the police
to give particular attention to their
places and, in some instances. deserting
these entirely as they sought SecluSion
elsewhere.
Meanwhile the police investigation,
proceeded with their belief strengthened
that the men shot were innocent by
ISLANDERS who received the bullets meant
for Hip Sing leaders, three Of whom
were in the establishment when the
gunmen entered with blazing pistols,
then disappeared as quickly as they
came, after diScharging their lethai
mission.
Two Marked for Death.
The supposition that it was Hip Sing
leaders who were sought is partly borne
out, police think, by information that
two Of the local On Leong tong chiefs
Charlie Moy, the president, and George
knn. VII faY
death by enemy tongmen, and, In the
case of Wen, Kelly has learned price
of $4,000 has been put on his head.
Logically, then, police investigators
hold, Hip Sing leaders likely have been
marked by the other side, for although
there is nothing to prove this, killings
in other parts of the country have sig
nalized the end of the Hip Sing
On Leong truce and the outbreak here
is simply viewed as part Of the ma
tional war"
The Sunday evening incident already
has proved costly to Moy, from whom
$500 was stolen while he was being
held by the police that night for queS-
tioning during the general roundup
of On Leong members. Moy lives at
3l8 Pennsylvania avenue, and the
money was removed from drawer
there, the police not giving him time
to look after his property before he
was taken away, he says. Moy declares
the doors were open, and is inclined
to blame the disappearance of the
money on fellow countryman.
One of the three suspects held in
connection with the shootings has been
released. He is Shick Lee, laundry
man, residing in the 1900 block Of H
street northeast
Lai Yee is another suspect held, but
police have established no connection
with the case which he is concerned.
Son Assists Police.
1t developed last night that one of the
slain men, whose name first was given