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CHINESE CỦAN MURDERS.
CRIMES THAT BAFFLE POLICE IN UNITED STATES.
One of the most mysterious wars in modern history is raging in the United States, says the Daily Mail's New York correspondent. It is being waged, with an utter disregard of the police, by mem bers of two Tongs, or clannish secret societies-the On Leongs sad the Big Sings-in the dingy but picturesque ters known Chinatown.in the princi towns of the United States. For mo than three months the combatants have been
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engaged, wi
with pistols, hatchets, knives, and poison in the business of reciprocal extermination.
They have succeeded in that time i despatching to their ancestors some thre score of their countrymen and in wound. ing double that number. The Chinese in America cherish their own inmemorial customs. They frankly despise “Ameri- can ideals; and, thanks to their genius for prevarication and the impenetrability of their language, they have managed so far to deride the authorities in their efforts to catch them within the meshes of the law.
HELES OF THE UNDERWORLD.
Only occasionally is it vouchsafed to the white man to lift a portion of the dark veil enshrouding the passions and animosities of these immigrants from the Far East More than 10 years ago a tong war similar to the one now in pro gress was, waged over the dead body of Bow Kum, the Chinese Helen of Troy of New York's underworld. She had marri ed in San Francisco under the protection. of the
the Christian Mission and against the protests of her "guardian," Low Hee Dong,
handsome Chinese youth named Chen Lem.
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The couple came to New York and plac- ed themselves under the protection of the On Leong patriarch, Tow Lee, a goat. hearded old Chinese who owned most of the gambling dens in Chinatown. Bat they were quickly followed by Low Hee Dong, a powerful member of the Hip Sings Boy Kum's throat was cut. The next day to members of the Hip Sing fraternity bit the dust.
ROPE OF THE PLAGPOLE,
An attempt was then, made upon the fife of Tom Lee, at whose feet, missing him only by a few inches, fell the saw off flagpole of a jossteuse as he was talking amiably with an American policeman. The rope attached to the flagpole was bound around
Found the same werk Singa
the
of two Hip throats of two
And so the war went mysteriously on until an diet arrived from Peking,” and peace conferenc: presided over by the
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in a treaty. Under this treaty the faces of both Tongs were preserved by
a unique device.
The On Leongs remitted £100, the price: of Bow Kum, to the Hip Sings; and the Hip Sings remitted to the On Leoogs fise amount, the price of the wife of an" On Leong whom one of their mem bers had iniquitously stolen.
Each
side sent to the joss-house of the other a roast pig, Thus the war ended, only to be renewed last October, when the On Leongs despatchedő ultimatum to the Hip Sings demanding the instant expulsion from theiz,
of Chin Jack Lem, fortuer president of the On Lecngs, and 13 of his associates.
A dispute over a trifle of
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led Chin Jack to transfer his funds belonging: to the On Leance. The Hip Sings furiously rejected the ultimatum. But they were unprepared for the war which opened at once with the murder of Sing members in Schenectady,
and other
towas.
rms
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They were in fact completely outwitted; for the On Leongs denounced a score of more of them to the New York police.. Their houses were searched for entigraded the police had Cond, N confiscund the weapons, the On Leongs murd-ged their inhabitants. The in- cidents of many-
of these murders tinged with the weirdest DIVALPTES for they are committed under the very eye of the police, who are never able to lind their perpetraters but only the bodies of the victim.
Are
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SUICIDES IN LOURED ROOMS. Still more peraliar than the murders
the suicides of men marked for. assassination. who lock themselves du their rooms and and their own lives rather than afford their enemies the triumph of killing them.
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in American cities. After opening up in addition to its Branches has Agencies in al new territory for fantau gambling-houses. The principal Cities of the World." restaurants, y well as bundries and other establishments they resent. 15 Europena concessionaries do in China, the intrusion
ion of a rival.
They practise; too, a curious form of Chinese benevolence, for they provide ployment for all their members, and if in the sacred cause of war a neutral should be shot the offending
ading Tong in- mediately and voluntarily pays an ad- equate indemnity to the family or busi ness Associates of the murdered one.
That has befu-their invariable practice in former wara But the Tong-war of 1921-25 bas assumed a character of "fight fulness all its own. It has developed into a war againat neutrals and perce minkera
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to the contrary, has not joined either Tong, but desires to be known as the friend of both. Beneath these protestations are other sinister notices carrying as often, as not the names of the protesters and that they have been elected
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