Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-02
Further Identification Will Be Neces
sary to Establish 1t.
MAY HAVE KILLED HIMSELF
Clothes Are Missing, Which Adds tc
Police Difficulties.
MAY SOLVE MURDER MYSTERY
Chinese Minister Calls on san Fran
cisco Cinnamon, Demanding that
They Help Find the Miss
ing Ling.

NEW YORK. July Although complete
Identification was impossible tonight there
appeared to be strong probability that
the body Of a Chinaman which was found
floating in the Hudson river In the upper
part Of the city this evening was that Of
Leon Ling or william L. Leon, the alleged
murderer Of Elsie Sigel
The mans height, weight and general ap-
pearance tallies with that of Leon Ling
but the body was nude except for a silk
undcrshirt and had been in the water for
more than a week a thorough examination
will be necessary. Coroner Mcdonald who
vas the first to inspect the body, believes
that It is Leon, as do a number of police
men, but until measurements and facial
characteristics are carefully gone over the
Identification will remain in doubt.
If It is Leon the cause of his death will
be another mystery, although one theory,
that OF suicide, would appear reasonable.
The body was discovered by Clinton w.
Bell, resident of Harlem who was out
In the river in n motor boat with a young
woman. Bell secured the body, then COM
municated with the police. Officers were
Immediately dispatched to the scene and
the body was taken to a morgue in the
Bronx, where the examination was begun.
Resemblance to Leon.
In salient features there was a marked
resemblance between the dead Chinaman
and the official descriptions Of the missing
Leon Ling. The teeth were good as were
Ling's, the height about nve feet four
inches, which was Icons height, and the
weight 12j pounds, which was about the
figure at which Leon tipped the scales
when he disappeared. The age of the dead
man appeared to be about 25 or 30. Icons
age was given out by the police as 80
The right arm of the BODY was greatly
dscolored, but whether from violence or
the effects of the water could not be ascer-
tained tonight.
The fact that the clothes were missing
makes Identification more difficult and an
autopsy wifi be performed in the morning.
The coroner was unable tonight to arrive
at any conclusion as TO how the Chinaman
met his death. Captain Carey of the homi-
eide bureau, who has had charge of the
investigation of the Sigel murder, started
for the Bronx when notified that the body
had been found, preparatory to making an
examination.
Chinaman is Murdered.
Early this morning Yung Vow, in
conspicuous, hard working Chinese laun-
dryman of the east side, was found by his
neighbors strung between two washtubs,
with his head beneath the. water of one
Of them, and his feet in the other There
were bloody marks on his neck, bloody
footprints on the floor and a knotted cord
about the mans neck. In the cash drawer
the police found / cent.
All attempts to connect the murder of
Leon Ling have failed There is nothing
to show that the two men ever knew each
other or ever had friends in common, and
they did not belong to the same societies.
Investigation soon showed that Yung was
beaten over the head by flatirons. prob
ably by more thap one man, and then
slung between the tubs until he probably
died by drowning, while unconscious.
To all appearance he was killed by thugs
| for money. His relations in Chinatown be-
lieve he was killed by white men and the
police were inclined to the same theory.
Quon Yick Nam, the local Chinese in
terpreter who will be replaced by Prof
Gardner o fSan Jose, Cal, who will en-
deavor to unravel the Sigel mystery said
today that he himself suggested Prof
Gardner's name to the district attorneys
office.
Il was angered," he said, by the In
situations of certain police officers that
I might not be sincere In my work"
Urge Chinese to Help.
! SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-The bulletin
boards of Chinatown were placarded to-
day with copies of a letter from Ng Shau
Chun, acting Chinese minister at Washing
ton' urging the Chinese of this city to
assist in the capture of Leon Ling, wanted
| in New York for the Elsie Sigel Murder.
| The tragedy has started a dress reform
among the orientals here Ling wore the
latest American clothes and had no queue
and as many Chinese of his description
have been apprehended on suspicion be-
cause Of their American attire there is a
tendency to avoid annoy ance by discard
l ing the garb Of the white man