Nearly Lynched a Chinaman

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—In the belief that he had tried to kidnap Tessie Lee, a Chinese-American girl, a crowd of over 200 men, women and boys today mobbed and threatened to lynch Chu Chin, a Chinese laundryman, of No. twenty-one Pell street, at Forty-fifth street and Tenth avenue.

Before the police rescued Chu Chin both his eyes were blackened, his face and body bruised and his American clothes torn to tatters. Half a dozen patrolmen escorted him to the station, with the crowd hooting and yelling after him.

The girl is the daughter of Tessie Walsh, who twenty years ago was known as the “Belle of Chinatown.” The father was Sing Lee, a Celestial, who was killed in a Chinatown feud.

The girl claims that Chu Chin has been endeavoring for a long time to induce her to live with him, resorting to violence to that end. She claims that he waylaid her in the park last Saturday, and that a guard saved her from assault. Today, she says, he lurked about the house until she went out on an errand. Then, when he seized her by the arm and demanded that she follow him, her cries brought the crowd and the assault followed that precipitated a clash with the police.