The Washington herald., 1909-06-28
RED TAXI. CARRIED
TRUNK WITH BODY
New York Police Seek Chauf-
feur in Sigel Case.
SAW CHINAMAN BOARD VESSEL
EmpIoye of transportation Company
Watched Dark-skinned MOnsOIian
Take Passage for BostOn-Cabman
and Policeman Give Additional
CIews as TO Movements of Linn.

New York. June Z.-From Newark to-
day came substanuatiOn Of The story
which James Halstead. a Newark cab
man. told the New York police on Sat
urday night. Halstead is the man who
brought a frightened little Chinaman to
New York on the afternoon Of June 10
in his ceb. along with 0 heavy, rope-bound
trunk. and left both ar 7S2 Eighth avenue.
He has identified the trunk IN which
Leung Lin packed the body Of Elsie
Sigel as the same which he brought IN
from Newark
The corroboration story was told by
Henry Sayers. a cabman. who has q
night stand at Broad and Market streets.
Newark Sayers says that between y
and o'clock on the morning about June
10 be was talking 70 Gus Harms, a police
man. when a red taxicab sped by with
a big trunk resting beside the chauffeur
He remembers having passed a remark
10 the policeman about the trunk and
that both he and Harms wondered where
II was going.
Cannot Remember Date.
You've got me when you inquire the
exact date" said Sayers to-day. Go
and see Harms. He'll know. That cop
remembers everything"
Horns could not tell the date. either,
until he referred TO his note book. Then
he said II must have been the morning Of
June 10, because that was the only time
in a good while that he had been near
Sayers' stand. He said he remembered
well the taxicab and the big trunk be-
side the chauffeur. The story fits right
into the one which the police got out OF
Ii Sing. chop sUey boss at 81 Market
street, Newark, about Leung Lin having
come 70 him an hour OF SO after midnight
on June 10, and dumped a trunk from
red taXicab, with the request that his
chop suey friend store II for him for
little while. as he had 70 hustle 10 keep
an appointment in Philadelphia
Halstead says he is certain that it was
at ! o'clock on the afternoon Of that
same day June &c. that Leung Lin hired
him and his cab 70 bring the trunk back
10 New York and 10 the house at 10
Eighth avenue, where Elsie Sigel had
been killed the day before. The police
put IN some time to-day trying 70 run
down that red taxicab and It's driver,
but only succeeded in eliminating a great
many red taxicabs that had not carried
any Chinaman and rOpe-b0und trunk re-
Gently.
Saw Chlnnmnn Board ship.
There is a man by the name OF san
chez. an emp!oye Of the New York
transportation Company. who is dead
sure that he saw Leung Lin sail for
Boston on June 10. Il. or p AT O'Clock
on the afternoon Of one Of those days.
Sanchez. standing on Pier IS. East River.
amused himself by watching passengers
tramp aboard one OF the Metropolitan
Transportation Company's turbine steam
ers; whether tie Yale or the Harvard.
Sanchez cannot say. Two Chinese sp-
peared. One was dark. the other light.
as Chinese go. They chattered over the
disposition OF a steamer trunk. Finally
the dark Chinaman boarded the vessel.
and the light one departed into the city.
After spending some hours over picture
OF Leung Lin. Sanchez is ready 10 swear
that the dark Chinese was that same
LeUng.
The analysis Of the contents OF the
SigeI girls stomach. OF which Prof. Fer
gusOn. Of Columbia. has charge. is not
completed.