CRIME
Laundrymen's War
"HELLO! Chief? Don't forget, chief, that the Chinese murder is a tong killing. . . . We understand each other, don't we, chief? ... All right."
Telephone receivers in the hands of scores of city editors banged down one morning last week and the several gentlemen leaned back in their chairs with a sigh of momentary contentment.
TONG! The magic word. City editors rolled it in their mouths. A sweet morsel.
When, in the ordinary course of events, several Chinese are murdered during a short space of time, a tong war automatically...
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