RUSE OF A CHINESE CRIMINAL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1502, 24 October 1885, Page 3

RUSE OF A CHINESE CRIMINAL.

New York, Aug. 19, —Wong Chin Foo, who was employed as interpreter and secret agent in working up the case against Fong Ah Yue, arrested in Montreal for the murder of Sin? Lee and delivered on Friday to the American authorities, tells an interesting story of the case. He says for some years the Chinese laundry business of Montreal was monopolised by three brothers named Fong. They had accumulated a fortune and were owners of five large establishments in Montreal. In 188-1 Chuen Jin arrived, opened a rival place in the neighbourhood, gained the good-will of the Canadians and built up a lucrative business. The Fougs then commenced persecuting him, brought lawsuits and there were bitter litigations. Chuen Jin winning the suits. Sing Lee was an educated laundryman in Rome, N. Y., and a friend of Chuen Jin. By his eiforts the Fongs were defeated and imprisonment stared them in the face. Then followed Sing Lee's sudden disappearance and subsequent revelations. Wong Chin Foo said he worked up the clues which led to the arrest of Fong Ah Yue. He says the latter led a double lite in Montreal. By day he wore Chinese clothes, managed the laundry and was known as Fong Ah Yue. At nii*ht he assumed an American raiment, became a man about town, and was known as John Fower. In his latter character he was an active I member of the Young Men's Christian Association, carried visiting cards on which his American name was engraved and kept up a limited correspondence m English. Under the alias of Fower he had secured the entrc < into I some Montreal homes, and had become | the acknowledged lover of a pretty | Canadian girl, the daughter of a prosI perous tailor. In the tailor's house ! were found his American clothes, by | which he was identified He is now in j the jail of Oneida county. ~S. F. Bulletin.