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MURDER MOST FOUIj.A Chinese Woman the Victim lt;f a Terrible Crime—The Murderers Still at Lurge.lie I LA shrill scream of mingled terror and agony aroused the denizens of Chinatown at about 10:30 o’clock 011 Sunday evening.It came from the 1 ips of a young Chinese lie woman named VowKum,aprostituteand | Slt; an inmate of ouo of the (lens in tlie vilest quarter of our oity. She at t hat moment met her death at the hands of two jf_ j men, natives of her own country. | 'fjThe story of the awful crime and the motives leading up to it are briefly told as follows: Yow Kami was one of the handsomest of the Chinese women of Victoria. She was only J!) years of age, was a native of Foo Clmo, and wasbrought to Victoria from San Francisco 1 t about three years ago by a (’liineae pro- 1nil curess named Alt lt;«eo, who intended to I 111 • take Iter back again to the day City, | thbut was prevented from doing so by 1 t() the passage of the Chinese Exclusion he ^Aot. being unable to get back to San cl |t. , Francisco, the girl became the inmate of the den at 71 Fisgard street, kept by m Yip Tang ami bis wife. The house eon- \)V d, tains but three small rooms- or rather jn a pens—occupied by the Chinaman and ],. id liia harridan wife. Like all of the tjjhe : Chinese dens in this part of the city, yr 1 the rooms are dirty, foul smelling andof contain hardly any furniture besides theop , ,r()or opium lay-outs.n- ^ on Kuni appears to have had an ,,]aversion to Chinamen, and numbered lv i-. among 1 er friend; many young white £( it* men, .lo Ah Hen ig, wlio.se birth-pkue rp was in the (’liinese state of (big Quong, t,t[ i t has for months been an ardent admirer vo e- °l the young woman. As soon as hisit work was done—In; was employed at SN the American Hotel as a bedmaker- -lie |}‘ewould he iouud in eouslnnt attendance upon tlie object of his affection. She, a.1 i- 1 • ... . 1 * kihowever, did not reciprocate. I wice he f(] n proposed marriage to her, and received m;a Hat refusal. He was not discouraged, j!U ^ and under the impression that his un- jJUfavorable reception was due to the in- oulluei.ee 1 rouglit to bear against him by jn \ ip Tang and his wife, lie tinally pre- tj,, { posed to give You Kuni poison to ml- cu, minister, when the opportunity came, tq fIV Mr. and Mrs. Tang. To this diaholica. Gf u proposition, she properly gave a decided |,.l; z retusal. and also informed the man and oNV woman of the plan to murder them. On ()f Sunday evening, Hung paid In’s usual ^ju call at about nine o’clock, and was or- ,,f dered away by Tang, with instructions jri not to come again. pp^He left, threatening, and the story of aI1(
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Victoria Daily British Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, CA
Tue, May 14, 1889
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