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Show CeiESB AMllT FOUL PLOT aSanaaaaaasaaaaaaSBBVasBSBaMBB SAN FRANCISCO, May 12. Two of thr' four Chinese highbinder society presidents arrested for alleged complicity complic-ity in the killing of Tom Tick, a member mem-ber of the Chinese Educational society, on Friday night, have signed confessions' confes-sions' in which they admit that a conspiracy con-spiracy existed among: the dtfferent ramifications of the powerful See Tup society to put out of the way 300 members mem-bers ef the' Educational organization; that a price of $509 was to be paid fot the murder of each or those-suspected of giving information to the police rel- ' Atlve to the plans of" highbinders and gamblers? that S3W was to be forth-corning" forth-corning" for every other one of the 300 members put out of the way; that $200 in gold would be paid to the gun men and hatchet men for each one maimed; that in the event of arrest and prosecution prose-cution for the wholesale butchery the iriety would pay all the expenses' of tr.eU" '--s-e, nil th;t in tie event of onvlciic.a, iU-J " sA U a:a, ts tie relatives of the convicted men in China. The four men in custody are Gee HongT On, president of the See Yups, ; and a member of the On Ylck hlgh-i hlgh-i binder society; Lee Ylngr. president of , the Bow Long highbinder Tong; Quong Wah and Wong Doo Kong. All were arrested after the assassination of Tom Tick. The first two named are . the confessors. Both of them are iden-tided iden-tided with the Educational society, besides be-sides claiming affiliation with the highbinders, high-binders, and both claim that as oon as the See Yups entered Into their compact com-pact placing a price upon the heads of Educational society members, they immediately im-mediately warned their friends in the organization what had happened and , advised them to be on their guard. The other men in custody insist that the confessions are absolutely false. They brand the Educational society as a blackmailing organization and insist that thei confessions were made to work the undoing of the See Yup society. The presidents of the branches of the Bee Tup society already in custody will be- chars:" 3 with conspiracy to kill and others will be booked on a like charge as soon as they are apprehenaei, . . |