WAN HOY
Arizona Republican Newspaper
August 3, 1904

A homicide was committed in Florence yesterday morning, 
both the assailant and the victim being Chinamen.  The 
victim of the tragedy was Wan Hoy and the killer was Lee 
Sam.  The means of death was a six shooter, though of what 
caliber, where the bullet took effect, or the number of 
shots fired could not be ascertained.  The first news of 
the killing was a telephone message from Lee Sam, the man 
behind the gun, to Chinese Dick, of this city known 
locally as the mayor of Chinatown.  By reason of his 
popularity among both his countrymen and the whites, 
Dick is looked upon as a sort of a ward boss, interpreter 
and general diplomatic agent between the whites and the 
Chinese.  Further he is a member of the same tong or 
company to which both the killer and his victim belong.

It is learned that the two Chinese were rival merchants, 
their respective establishments being in adjoining rooms 
with only a partition between them.  Lee Sam is reputed to 
be a drunkard, a very unusual thing for a Chinaman and it 
is said that bad blood had existed between the two men 
for a long time.  The nature of the feud is not known 
here but it is supposed that it grew out of a business 
quarrel of some sort and neither was an explanation 
made of the immediate circumstances that resulted in 
the tragedy.