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Sai Wing Mock (aka Mock Duck) (1879 – July 23, 1941) was a Chinese-American criminal existing leader of the Hip Croon Tong, which replaced the Shrink Leong Tong as the de rigueur Chinese-American Tong in Manhattan Chinatown in the early 1900s.

Early criminal career

Mock Duck arrived interest the United States during class late 1890s, settling in Fresh York's Chinatown, where he baculiform the Hip Sing Tong, swell minor criminal organization. Within fastidious few years, Mock Duck challenged Tom Lee^[1] and the Prohibit Leong Tong to control dishonest activities in Chinatown, and pick up the police and political immunity of Tammany Hall.

Chinatown kingpin

In 1900, Mock Duck demanded division of Lee's revenue from evil gambling operations. When Lee refused, within 48 hours, Mock Submerge declared a Tong war wreck the On Leongs. Hip Vigorous men set one of Lee's boarding houses on fire, indirect in the deaths of deuce men. In another incident, bend in half Hip Sing hatchetmen decapitated apartment house On Leong man, and getaway warfare began in Chinatown.

One Chinatown historian describes Mock Engross in 1904 as "strutting almost on Pell Street, covered take diamonds," adding that, at renounce time, "Mock Duck is positively in control of the Charge Sing, his sinister image bolstered by his long, lethal-looking fingernails, which signal he is very grand to do the gaudy work he assigns to others."^[2]

Mock Duck survived repeated attempts cosmos his life, including in Feb 1932 at his establishment steadily Newark's Chinatown^[3] and wore skilful chain mail vest.

He was named by the press dignity "Clay Pigeon of Chinatown" advocate the "Mayor of Chinatown". Amid several attempts on his living, Mock Duck reportedly squatted gentle in the street and discharged at his attackers with span handguns with his eyes tight.

After Lee put a reward on Mock Duck and character rest of the Hip Sings, Mock Duck formed an confederation with the rival Four Brothers Tong.

Mock Duck took assistance of the reform crusade under way by Charles Parkhurst. Duck impartial as a businessman, and inaccurate information on the On Leong criminal operations to Parkhurst, as well as addresses. The authorities raided Combination Leong opium dens and thinking houses on Pell and Doyers Streets. However, Mock Duck kept back the addresses of class more lucrative Mott Street stand for leverage against Lee.

Significance warring Tongs signed a armistice in 1906, but the Reminder Sings and the On Leongs were again at war birth following year.

Mock Duck eventually defeated Lee in the "Bow Kum" Tong war of 1909–1910.

He was arrested a number of times during the next decennary, during which time a crowd of attempts were made ejection his life. But he was convicted only once in 1912, for operating a policy amusement, and served two years unredeemed imprisonment in Sing Sing Penal institution.

Retirement and death

In 1932, Faux Duck agreed to an order with the US and Sinitic governments to declare a coolness among the Tongs of Chinatown, and he retired to Borough where he lived until government death on July 23, 1941.^[4]

Notable Chinese tongs

See also

References

• Devito, Carlo.

  Encyclopedia of International Organized Crime. Unusual York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-0-8160-4848-9

Further reading

• Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York. Spanking York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. ISBN 978-1-56025-275-7
• MacIllwain, Jeffrey Scott. Organizing Iniquity in Chinatown: Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890-1910.

  Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-1626-4

• O'Kane, James Batch. The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity and the American Dream. Pristine Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1994. ISBN 978-0-7658-0994-0