Title: "A Gang of Japs," Seattle Times, 6/4/1901, (ddr-densho-56-21)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-21

A Gang of Japs.

The Times Special Service.

TACOMA, Tuesday, June 4. -- K. Matsunaya, a young Japanese tailor, who has been associated with a gang of Japanese that have been operating in Tacoma and Seatle [Seattle] for the past two years among the Japanese residents of the cities, has pleased guilty to grand larceny and been bound over to the superior court for trial and sentence in the sum of $500. The gang is said to have stolen at least $5000 worth of all sorts of goods, including considerable money from their fellow countrymen in the past two years.