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Show TOi WMR PREDICTED li THEJIG CITIES Murder of Haw Lin Shuck, U. S. Immigration Officer, Causes Anxiety. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 2. Hop Alloy,' ' tho local Chinese quarter, ex-tending ex-tending over an area of five blocks, in tho downtovrn business fiection, was excited today as a result of tho murder of Haw Liu Shuck, a Chinese immigration immigra-tion oflicer of tho United States, last night, and tho subsequent prediction bv Leo Bing, mayor ol t'ne alley, that tne uhotH v.-hlch killed Shuck would inaueurato a tock war in St. Loui.. Chicago and liovr York, IMoro than tno-scoro denizens of the alley, including tho "mayor" and Helen Davis, known as "Queen of the Alley, wpre taken by tho police to bo held pending investigation of the mysterious murder. Th polico aro flceking an undersized Chinaman, taid bv leaders to have been sent hero from Chicago or New York to put Shuck out of the way A bunch of roses handed to him in th3 hc'Je from which he had just departed is believed by tho police to hui'o identified tho immigration immigra-tion agent to his slayer. Shuck wai killed as ne steppod from tho alley with thc flowers under his arm. lie was shot four times and stabbed. The motivo for the murder, as advanced ad-vanced by Bing. was the desire of New York and Chicago tong men to establish estab-lish in St. Louis a branch of their society, so-ciety, which was strongly opposed bv Bing and fcShuck. |