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Show WORE STEEL LINED BLOUSE Chlnamnn's Garment Padded with Metal Plates as Protection for Body. Complete verification of the statement state-ment that membors of the warring factions fac-tions In Chinatown wear coats of mall to protect them from the bullets and knife thrusts of their enemies was found recently when the police. In Investigating In-vestigating tho shooting of Willie Lee York, found an armored coat In the room of Lee Pock, his alleged assailant. as-sailant. Tho coat Is mado after the ordinary style of a Chinaman's loose blouso and is of blue Jean or heavy drilling. On tho body it looks liko an ordinary laundryman's working blouse, but when the police picked It up tlioy found out differently. Tho garment from hem to neck was padded with steel. In the shape of pieces about tin Inch and a half squnro These do not lap like scales, but are brought edge to edge, and hehV with loops of wire. That' the metal lined coat might conform to the body tho pieces of steel were pounded nnd made slightly concave. Across the body of the garment, back and front. Is apparently a seam, but examination showed that tho coat was mado of double thickness In tho lower portion, nnd underneath the apron-like flap In front thero was a long pocket like a holster. The garment weighs all told about 50 pounds, nnd Is nbout three-fourths of an Inch In thickness. It was turned over to Superintendent Taylor and will be taken Into court ns an ex hibit In tho case of Leo Pock, who was held at a hearing before Magistrate Magis-trate Oallnglwr to await tho result of York's Injuries. |