Mob Kills Chinaman

Newspaper:The Bamberg Herald
Publication Date:   Thu, Sep 11, 1913
Published at:Bamberg, South Carolina
Page Number:5
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Chicago, Sept. 3.—Charles Sing, a Chinaman, 40 years old, owner of a restaurant on the south side, was fatally beaten and stabbed at his home to-day and died a few hours later in a hospital. Mrs. Alice Sing, 24 years old, the white wife of the victim, was found unconscious by his side. She is suffering from a fractured skull and may die.

Josephine Modelski, 32 years old, a servant at the Sing home, was taken in custody and will be questioned by the police.

After an investigation the police expressed the opinion that Sing and his wife were attacked by white men living in the vicinity because of his union with an American woman.

Citation

Mob Kills Chinaman. The Bamberg Herald (Bamberg, SC), September 11 1913, 5. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063790/1913-09-11/ed-1/seq-5/