Warry S. Charles (1857 – 1915) was a Chinese American businessman and Hip Sing Association leader who was tried and convicted for organizing a hit during the Tong Wars in Boston's Chinatown.
[5] In 1886, Charles was brought in by the Boston Police Department to work as an interpreter during their investigation of the “Wash-House Murder”.
[5] In Boston, Charles worked as a court interpreter and started a successful laundry business.
[6] The police believed that Charles, as leader of the Hip Sing, orchestrated the attack as in retaliation for a 1903 murder of one of their members.
His attorneys, Charles W. Bartlett and Harvey H. Pratt, appealed the case to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the grounds that a witness should have been allowed to testify that a police officer and a Chinese interpreter had conspired to bribe prosecution witnesses.
Three of the men asked that Bartlett and Pratt not petition for commutation, as they preferred death to life in prison and they were executed on October 11, 1909.