Folder: S.F. Police-Policemen-Manion, John.
Newscopy: "EX-CHINATOWN 'POLICE CHIEF' DIES--Along Grant Ave. and Kerry and Clay and Waverly place, the elders were in agreement. At the Hang Tea Room, one old, dignified Chinese expressed it simply: "We have lost a friend. Sergeant Jack is dead." Retired Police Inspector John J. (Jack) Manion died yesterday, at 82, after a long illness. Manion, for a quarter of a century the "Chief of Police of Chinatown," was already a legend when he retired in 1946. He was credited with ending the tong wars that had bloodied the Street of a Thousand Lanterns, for more than 50 years. Manion in 1922 told the leaders of the six powerful tongs there would be "no more opium, no more slave girls, no more killings." The elders listened, and knew he meant what he said. And from 1922 to the present, there has not been a tong killing in Chinatown. Manion knew the twisted byways of Chinatown better thanmost of its residents, and was respectfully nicknamed "Mau Yee" (The Cat) by the Chinese. One tong hatchetman, forced out of business by Manion's diligent police work, said grudgingly: "Sargey got two eye in front, one eye behind and never sleep." And today, in the Street of a Thousand Lanterns, Wong HIm Yee, an ancient, was quietly cleaning shrimp and remembering "Sergeant Jack." "Verily," he said, precisely, "a good friend has left us." Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Monday from Reilly Co., 29th and Dolores sts. Requiem high mass will be sung at 9:30 a.m. at Old St. Mary's Church, in the heart of the Chinatown Sergeant Jack knew and served so well...Caption: INSPECTOR JACK MANION IN CHINATOWN-Two eye in front, one eye behind and never sleep."
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