Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-12
Two Are Held for Question.
ing in Death of Lee
King.
THIRD MAN is SOUGHT
FOR PART IN SHOOTING
Victim Slain for Revealing Mar
cotic Violations in District
and Virginia,

Chinese gunner early today Silenced
the lips of one of their race. who had
dared to expose to Federal narcotic
officials the ramifications here and in
Virginia of a thriving drug smuggling
trade Two men were taken for ques-
tioning in the case. after tear bombs
had been used in their apprehension.
Lee King, alias Ching, credited by
Federal authorities with much valuable
work in the war on drugs, died from
the effect of bullet wounds in his neck
and abdomen in Emergency Hospital a
short time after he had been found
shot on the street.
The men under arrest are Moy Ping
Ding, 80 and Hume Dosing, %, who
gave as their joint address laundry
in the HOO block of Fourteenth street.
Both are being held at the first precinct
station house ''for investigation" A
third Chinese is being sought by head
quarters detectives.
Tear Bombs Used at Laundry.
Ding and Dosing were taken into
custody by Detectives Thomas Sweeney,
John Fowler, James Kane and Curtis
Fowler, who bombarded the laundry
building with the tear gas bombs. A
,38 caliber automatic pistol was taken
from a shelf in the laundry by the de-
tectives.
A Chinese known as James Lee, said
to have been an acquaintance OF King,
is wanted by the police, who declare
man answering Lees description rented
an automobile resembling one in which
Kings aSsaSsins fed from the scene OF
the shooting, on Eleventh street be-
tween L and M streets. The car later
was found abandoned near the Four
teenth street laundry.
A motorist told police he saw King
talking with two other Chinese in an
automobile parked on Eleventh street,
between L, and M streets, and a mo-
ment later, while driving back up the
street, saw King crumple to the side
walk under a stream of lead from the
car. The automobile and its occupants
sped away.
Dispatches from Norfolk, Va, said
that King had been used regularly as
an informer by narcotic agents and had
testified in numerous drug cases there.
He was scheduled to appear in other
cases in the future. The agents de-
clared King had been helpful in the
effort to break up drug smuggling in
other parts of the country.
Wife Says Husband Worried.
Olivia Spence, 24-year-old colored
wife of the dead Chinese, who lived
with him at 1923 Eleventh street, said
today her husband had been working
for Federal narcotic agents and police
members of the narcotic squad. She
said both she and her husband had
been arrested last year in house on
Virginia avenue southwest on charges
of violating the Federal narcotic law.
Lee had been all upset and wor-
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acted funny, like something was on his
mind. He got back only last week
from Norfolk, where he had been for
three weeks as Government witness
in narcotic case.
For the last three nights, strange
Chinese known to my husband as Lee
Geen, has been coming around to the
house around midnight. Last night,
Geen came around about IL o'clock
and asked my husband to go with him
TO see another Chinese, who runs a
laundry. He told my husband that
they had some business down there.
NV husband was reluctant to go at
first, but Geen finally persuaded him.
That was the last I saw of him.
MY husband has been working for
the Federal narcotic men ever since
his arrest last year." the wife con-
tinued. HE has been working lately
on out-of-town cases."
Mrs. King was brought to police head
quarters this morning and later taken
to the first precinct station house in
an effort to identify the two Chinese
under arrest.
The wife said she came to this city
eight. years ago from Buffalo, N. Y,
and had been married to King for three
years They had been living at the
Eleventh street address only a short
time.
James Paul Smith of lib Eleventh
street, chauffeur to Reede Lewis, patent
attorney, of 2124 Bancroft place, was
the only eyewitness to the shooting.
Smith came to police headquarters this
morning and told police he was driving
his car past the spot where the Chinese
was shot when he saw King sitting in
an automobile conversing with two other
Chinese. He said he drove back past
the men and looked over just as King
was shot while he stood on the side
walk Smith said the two other Chinese
Immediately drove away and left the
man lying in a pool of blood.
Smith told police he ran over to the
wounded man and asked him who shot
him. The victim replied, Chinese gun
men," mumbled his name and sank
into a coma Smith summoned police
and an ambulance and had the dying
man removed to the hospital.
Smith was unable today to identify
the arrested Chinese as the two men
seen in the car with King.