"Wherever he went, Little Pete was accompanied by a trusted servant who was carrying a chest full of precious and a box of toiletries. The most powerful boss of the Tong of San Francisco was a real dandy, very concerned about her physical appearance. Jewelry changed several times a day and never wore the same outfit two days running. Spent two hours every morning to comb, brush and oil the long tail of hair that she always shines. And of which he was inordinately proud. " So the journalist Herbert Asbury describes Fung Jing Toy , the boss of the Chinatown of San Francisco at the end of '800 best known as "Little Pete". The charms and the vanity of the leaders of Chinese mafia does not seem to be never changed. Even today, Asian crime boss loves to show off luxury clothes and cars travel on dark for several thousand euro. Not to mention the bodyguards who carry at least a couple, to ensure calm parades through the streets of dozens of Chinatown around the globe. Even Pete Little, founder of the most ruthless Tong (so called the Triads born on American soil), it was always accompanied by heavily armed thugs. But it was precisely because of inattention to this detail (or perhaps because of excessive bravado), the gangster came under the crossfire of a rival clan.
Little Pete was very quickly able to gain control of Chinatown. Using his personal army of thugs, when thirty years had not even control the traffic of prostitution, extortion, racketeering, gambling and opium trade in the Californian city. But it was also a negotiator, as evidenced by the alleged alliance with the powerful Christopher Augustine Buckley, a businessman and influential member of the Democratic Party. On the evening of January 23, 1897, however, the "King of Chinatown" commits a fatal mistake. During one of his frequent visits to the barber on the corner of Washington Street and Waverly Place, carries only one of his soldiers and, shortly after sitting on the chair with a hot towel over his face, sent him to buy a newspaper. A chinatown (photo by Arnold Gentha) such an occasion can not pass unnoticed. And when you see two killers, the action moves to action. One of them remains on guard outside. The other comes with the gun in his hand, grabs Little Pete for the long tail and shoots five shots at close range. Empire of the Young Fung Jing Toy collapses to 33 years. The war between the underworld of Chinese gangs in San Francisco has just begun.
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