New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1922, Page 14

CHINESE TONG WAR INN. Y. IS RESUMED Murder of Leader Probably Signal for Warlare New York, Aug. §.—Chinatown to- day seethed with rumors and peraist- ent signs of panic among its Orintal population while the body of Ko Low national president of the Hip Sings lay in state in the tong's headquar- ters in Pell street. Ko Low died early today after Chinese gunmen toppled him into the gutter with a bullet in his back as he Chin- | ese restaurant within the hounds of | Hip Sing territory, across from his| home. The usual quarter were throngs in the Chinese absent today. There were those, however, who loitered in doorways peering intently out in quest of strange Oriental faces for the slay- ers of the tong chieftain were declared to ve been strangers in the Chinese section populated by | the Chinese | The police who flooded the quarter scouts reports that Ko Low's mur- der means a reopening of the wars of the past that swept Chinatown | leaving dozens of tong men dead along | the boundary line that one separated | On Leong territory from that of the Hip Sing and Bing Kong tongs. Chinese Are Reticent. The Chinese never talk about their affairs with the Caucasions. Especial- ly are they reticent when questioned by police officials and the police have little to work on in trying to trace the slayers of Ko Low. Hip Sing of- ficials sat with faces as expressionless as those of waxen images in their lodge rooms. They said little, thought much, while their men combed the city seeking the identity of their high chief's slayers. ‘We do not know about,” said lLee Yee Hing, state president of the Hip Sing tong. “When we find out who the killers are then we will know how to act 2and what to do.” ' It is more than seven years since Eng Hing and Lee Dock of the Hip Sings were executed for a Tohg fight in which four men were killed. They were the first Chinamen to pay the extreme penalty for settling clan hatreds with pistols in the open etreets. The effect was magical. The Hips and their allies, the Four Broth- ers, dwelt at peace on the On Leong tong and even if the On Leongs did resent being outnumbered and out- influenced by the coalition, they made no overt act. New Animosities Possible. The old Elizabeth street station whose men once kept their fingers closely on the pulse of Chinatown has passed away, but some of its veter- ans now are attached to the Oak street station which polices the district south of Chatham square. Those men recalled as they went scurrying toward the shooting, that about a year ago Tom Lee, Chinatown's former mayor had died and that the settle- ment at about the same time had lost Dr. Fong Foo Leung who was head of the Chinese Masons in this country. Those who ruled with strong hands and both were for peace. Another who has so declined in influence that his old haunts seldom see him is Mock Duck, once leader of the Hip Sings. Horeover Chinese in New York are not unmindful of political distur- bances in their own country, Dr. Sun Yat Sen has warm supporters and equally fervent enemies and altogeth- er there was reason to fear that the power what it s vivid lesson dealt out in the Sing Sing | death house ‘might be losing its im- pressiveness. Chinese Chief. Ko Low was with May Malsbenden and Kitty Raventte, both of whom live at 203 West Eighty-fourth street, when he dined in the local Delmon- ico’s, came out and shambled toward his own home at the corner of Doy- ers and Pell Walking between his companions, he got just in front of the bulletin board tacked on the Pell street wall of the structure It was on that bulletin hoard that the Hips, the On Leongs and the Four Brothers A MILK OF CHARACTER § Do you know how good ; our milk is? Have you ever tasted it? Do we deliver it to your A home every morning? If we don't, get ac- quainted with it for. your baby’s sake. ESEIBERT & SON! “Your Milkman" PARK STRELT g PHONE 1720 Y, I will exchange for New Britain real estate a splendid 135 acre farm &sit- uated on West street, Southington. Consksting of 2 houses, 5 barnes. gar- | age, tool house, running water, 125 tons of hay, 28 cows, 4 horses and all | necessary tools and equipments. W. J. PHELAN Bristol, Conn. Telaphones 5P6=—119—289-13 used to hold necessary communication | with each other in the days of bit- | terest strife, There even were times | when he wWho wished to affix a notice there went to the Ellzabeth street station and got policemen to flank him while did it, Even so, there was an occasion many years ago when a Hip Sing in the very act of placard- ing a broadside, with a detective | standing at either side of him, lost a hand by a well directed Winchester {bullet fired from a window across the street | Two Chinamen standing just under |the board got into action as Ko Low |came abreast of them Each had an automatic, Together they sprayed bul- |lets at the trio, The first shot got Ko Low in the right side of the back, ranging into his vitals. The man who fired it, so witnesses though dropped his gun, a German automatic, and ran, Girls Flee to His Rooms, The other kept on shooting. A bul- let struck the Malsbenden girl in the right foot. Her companion circled he | her with an arm and the two pushed their way through the crowd that gathered and struggled upstairs and into Ko Low's rooms on the third floor of the place he owned. There Detectives O'Leary and McKettrick found them, hoth very much inclined to deny acquaintance with Ko Low and eager to assure their questioners that they knew absolutely nothing| about the shooting. The wounded girl was sent to Gouverneur hospital with Ko Low in an ambulance, Despite the number of shots, it was found when the first excitement had died away and policemen had shoul- dered a path through the chattering crowd, that no one else had been in- jured and not even a window had crashed. Habitually the Chinese, who invarfably use automatics, fi# with their eyes so closely aquinted that thelr marksmanship is of gravest dan- ger to bystanders, but for once wild bullets had done no damage. Investigation with the aid of inter- pretergd the detectives found a num- ber of ‘‘witnesses” who had arrived jugt in time to be positive there were two gunmen and that one had fired once, dropped his pistol and fled, but no one who could give a description of the assailants, more definite than that they undoubtedly were Chinamen. VISITORS IN FRANCE. American Wood Delegates Will Visit Famous Battlefields. Paris, Aug. S.—(By Associated delegates slept Fress.) — The American “good will" delegates slept last night in the cita- del of Verdun after a visit to Rheims, the Argonne and the Romagne cem- eterfes Cardinal Lucon received the dele- gates at Rheims yesterday and told them the story of the bombardment of the cathedral. They isited the battlefields, inspect- ing the underground shelters and earthworks which are still existing. OOKED FOOD SHOP 118 Main Street Closed Wednesday Afterncon TRY OUR FISH CAKES Every Friday we have a big |stock of Fish Cakes—made in |our own shop. 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