Charles Sing Was Murdered in an Anti-Miscegenation Attack

On September 3, 1913, Charles Sing, a Chinese American restaurateur in Chicago, was fatally beaten and stabbed in his home, while his white wife, Alice Sing, was left unconscious with a fractured skull. The Bamberg Herald reported that police believed the couple “were attacked by white men living in the vicinity because of his marriage to an American woman.” The killing stands out in the archive as a northern lynching linked not to labor conflict or criminal accusation, but to hostility toward interracial marriage.