Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1913 — Lee Hing Found It Wasn’t Safe to Move a Safe [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Lee Hing Found It Wasn’t Safe to Move a Safe

CLEVELAND, O. —A safe la not an Immovable object if Lee Hing, a Mongolian resident of Cleveland, can be believed. When Lee said good-bye to Huron Road hospital after a two months’ stay he ejaculated to the effect that he never wanted to again look a safe in the face. Lee Hing up to three months ago lived at 1280 Ontario street and had a liking for safes which bordered on the brink of affection. In the room where Lee took his dally siesta there reposed a safe. The safe contained' nothing but 'air and was unlocked, but that made no difference to Lee. He would say his evening prayers—to Confucius —

climb into the feathers and sleep the sleep of the innocent. How Lee came to lose interest in safes and his own security is of more Interest than the history of this particular safe. Lee was curled up behind his seven-foot pipe and was puffing like a locomotive one afternoon in front of his boarding house when a gentle zephyr brought the startling news that the Hip Sing tongmen were going to pay a visit to Lee’s bedroom and hold a post mortem on the Base. That was the last straw. Lee almost lost his trousers and Bhoe leather getting up three flights of stairs to his snoring emporium. With one bound he was at the side of the safe. Rudely he dragged the two ton strong box toward the stairs. Lee clambered down two steps and lovingly grabbed the safe. With a delicate little start the safe fell forward into Lee’s upheld arms. There wfs a brief hesitation as Lee grasped the object to his breast. Lee and the safe landed simultaneously at the bottom landing. Less than ten million yellow sons of China were in line to receive, them. "