Criminal: Death Inquiry of Lung Sing, 1921, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From Inquest Book A, Office of the Clerk of Court, Winn Parish Courthouse,
Winnfield, LA.

Lung Sing, 
Coroner's Certificate of

Winnfield, LA 
June 17, 1921

I, J. J. Peters, M. D., Coroner of the Parish of Winn, having been
notified of the death of L. Sing, and having viewed the body of the said
L. Sing, and made inquiry respecting the death, do certify that I am
satisfied no quilt attaches to any person, by reason thereof, and that an
inquest if unnecessary.

J. J. Peters, M. D. 
Coroner, Winn Parish

Filed June 17, 1921.  Recorded this the 30th day of June, A. D., Nineteen
Hundred and Twenty-One.

Eugene Beck
Dy. Clerk  & Ex-Officio Recorder

[If my memory is correct, Lung Sing, a Chinaman, ran a Chinese
laundry,(what other kind of laundry would he have run), in Winnfield and
was the subject of one of Mr. Harley Bozemans's articles about he and
Huey Long trying to sell rats to Mr. Sing.  Someone had told Huey that
Chinese were noted rat eaters and Huey took the bait, went to Mr. Sing
with a sack full and got his feelings hurt, if you could hurt Huey
Long's feelings.  

Mr. Bozeman went on to describe the "cosmopolitan" make up of Winnfield
when it became a boom town around the 1910-1920 period, with the coming
of the railroads.  The Winnfield Hotel had several shops downstairs run
by ethnic families, Jewish, Syrian, Italian.  The famous Rapides Parish
Damico family were in the produce and fruit business here, in fact,
became close boyhood friends with Huey and Earl Long.   Gregg -]