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I. 3■lt;rii#b?a.r * rO'atillsmasidaten0*1Is*edhave given up all hope* of her re*covery.Murders in Chinatown are common. When a Chink is dropped nothing is thought of it. Hi* body is hustled away and his cousins are silent.. Tii speak is to die. They are sad hut.1 silent.The murder of a white man in Chinatown is a public scandal, a fen-lt;;t day’s sensation, and then just onemore bloody page in the history of that block of tragedies. Father Riogel was the last man dropped in Chinatown, and Lillie Svbe]I, the White AV Queen, just missed going the voyage.r* When Lillie.Sybetl told the Ninth ■li.s-usrt station house keeper he whisper'd Pipe to House Sergeant Hadley and they left the woman to sleep it off. An hour latter Turnkey Kane reported the woman to be in a serious condition, and the district surgeon was tc called in. He saw symptoms of a fractured skull and at once ordered her removed to the Philadelphia Hospital, where Magistrate Fletcher took herante-mortem, statement. Here is ;In* story of the White Queen of Chinatown, which, when face to face with death, Lillie Sybell swore to, and which may land the four Taoist priests who rule the superstitious, ignorant, idolatrous mob of 7,500 pagans who worship fire and heir ancestors in thejoss house:I, Hose Svbell, known as ‘The l)V White Queen of Chinatown,’ legal wife of Vo Wong Quan, special agent of Bj Yeung Wo Uikun, of the Chinese Siv Companies, for the District of Ohio and West Virginia, was born in Cleveland. Ohio. July 25, 1S68, and spent the early years of my life in Lafayette, Ind., where our family physician taught me to smoke opium. He fitted up a room for me near the Lahr House where dotens of girls called and spent the afternoon and evening with us. All of these young women are addicted to the use of morphine in one form or r8 another, and 1 have seen as many as ^ eight of them stupified with the drug.• asleep on the floor in various stages of nudity. My lover, the doctor, died, and ng I ran the place for nearly a year, dur-lr ing which time I found that I could an make more money by admitting hotlv men and women to my apartments.re The matter finally came to the no* u*. tlce of the metropolitan police In La-on fayette and I was forced to move. 1 |g was not prosecuted, because scores of pft the best families in the place wouln have suffered more than 1 from the ex-posurc. I went to Terre Haute and took a smfilfTiouse'hr the resort of Madam Brown. I employed two Chinese books to cook opium for my pa-• * • i * 't • • •,tiente and had visitors from all of the towns wltfiln 100 mites. One of the Chinese boys In my employ brought Yo Wang Quan to my place and I bought a quantity of smuggled opium from him. IJe presented me with a Jeweled pipe, and thereafter visited lr my house every three months and al-w’ays made me a valuable present.iat “He was a graduate of an Eastern On college and spoke English fluently. He ed finally induced me to marry him aud ils took me to New Yorki where the cere* he P|ony was performed. I insisted upon ra- being married by a Justice and Yo He wanted a Taolst priest. We finally had two ceremonies. ’“We returned to Terre Haute, and at his request’ I sold out and moved to to Chicago where I Opened What I believe *e- was the finest 'Joint* ever operated in let the United*r States. Hfs company put mt up the money to fit up the place and I dy managed It He smuggled two Chi-|y | nese women intotbeplaee and I se-cured women of all nations who could,ce*thQuai a di Wal thanprieiwasg^tandover mi tomysmo of t! you i f*er v a n (1ingonewasa daandca mdo i aw a ever don: iaohouiwerlt;WcrandagaianylwhopoletlieYOlCH/EChal«D,Clsongavlt;Mot:danisoninghadhimwhethatlatea ctingprolt;Hecon1hadVV will tp( him in b ageihorntriapeaibutcast is ti is a yeai ing verlt; whi-A tlon mar by ThestatandBom
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Logansport Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Fri, May 24, 1901
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Tim C.
USA 03 Mar 2018
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