Show FOURTEEN KILLINGS TAKE PLACE IN JUST TWO DAYS While discharging the jur Jury In a murder murder mur mur- der case In New York City the other day Judge mentioned casually that in the forty eight t hours previous pre there had been fourteen killings In Now New York This establishes a new high record even for the metropolis which has grown accustomed to a rate of or one ono mm murder dor a R. day and Judge comment wol woke o many citizens ens to the seriousness se- se se seriousness ot of the homicidal epidemic that prevails pre Five murders took place In a afternoon recently almost under tho the shadow of or the new municipal office building opposite City Hall hail park Tho The incident pa passed sed almost unnoticed because because be- be cause it happened in Chinatown where killings by wholesale have become come a n commonplace Chinatown has gone gono dry and most of its famous resorts are closed but there were enough left lett to start the trouble The policemen who heard the tho rattle of ot shots At half hatt past three in the afternoon afternoon after after- noon ran up and saw tho the end of ot the fight tight Five men were do dead lold id in tho street or d dying in n doorways three moro more were bad badly I hurt three heavy revolvers still hot from the firing were lying on the sidewalk The Tho officers caught two men with revolvers re in their hands and made a n. general haul of or the neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood for tor witnesses Nearl Nearly a n hundred shots were fired tired and only one of ot the tho dead was in n bIlt battle 0 the re rest relSt t being passersby who were tal taken en by surprise This was only ono one more battle battlo of or tho the tongs ton 8 which have been fighting a murderous war in Chinatown for twenty twenty twenty I ty years It Is IB noted that four of ot the theother theother other shootings which J Judge mentioned were In fights of ot gunmen or A ealr t.- t. |