The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-16

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NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-The police OF
this city today are working on two new
murder mysteries.
Bow Kun, Chinese slave girl, was
stabbed to death in a room on the sec
ond floor CT II Mott street by jealous
sweetheart
Madeline Vicco, so years old, was
found dead on the floor of q room In a
lodging house at 105 West Twenty
ninth street, the heart of the old Ten
derloin district. There was a bullet
wound through her heart and the furni.
ture was thrown about the room, in.
dicating that she had fought desperate.
ly for her life.
In both cases the police have made
arrests.
| Friend of SfgeI Girps slayer.
Chin Len, an Americanized China.
| man, said by the police to have beer
a friend Of Leon Ling, the slayer oi
Elsie Sigel, was arrested and held ir
| $1,000 bail as a material witness in Bow
Kum's murder. Chin brought the girl
from San Francisco last February, os-
| tcnsibly to marry her.
In Chin Lens trunk, found in. a
room at % Mott street, across from the
tenement in which the girl was slain,
| the police discovered seven daggers
ei " cf fr,ai1 IN he txr;t \, a.,
girl was killed, and two magazine re-
volvers.
The girls body had three stab
wounds in the left breast, each OF
which pierced the heart; finger prints
on the throat and gashes on the wrists
indicating that she had made a des-
perate struggle for her life.
In the other case, Giuseppi Cerino
| with whom, the police say, the woman
had frequent quarrels, Is under arrest
He was taken into custody in his room
a short distance from where Miss
Vicco's body was found. He told the
police that he had not been out all
night
Banning Mystery, Police Say.
| The police believe that in their hunt
for the slayer of Bow Kun they have
on their hands as battling a mystery as
the Elsie Slgel case proved to be.
The crime was made known by Chin
Len, who rushed into the street and
shouted that Bow Kun had been slain
Chinatown became excited at once.
The Cinnamon of this quarter, inva-
riabIy impassive, stoical and secretive
for once departed from a time-honored
custom and talked. There was so much
to tell about Bow Kun they could not
restrain themselves, and so the story OF
the slave, who was Known from coast
to coast, came out. Jealousy prompted
the murder, of course. and while the
police suspected Chin Len and locked
him UP, still they are not sure it was he
who slew the girl. Discrepancies to
statements he made to Captain Calvin,
of the Elizabeth street station, and 10
Coroner Hamburger. and evidence which
indicated he was preparing for flight led
both officials to suspect that he is the
murderer.
Innocent, Prisoner Declares.
AS a score of detectives progressed
in their Investigations clues were dis
covered which made it damaging for
Chin, but from the first he maintained
his innocence and displayed the grief
of heartbroken man. He loved Bow
Kun too much to hurt a hair of her
head, he told them, and when they piled
him with questions and trapped him
again and again, he shook his head
and swore with vehemence that no mat
ter how bad it looked he had not slain
the girl.
Three other Cinnamon, Quen Chin
Wong Sing and Quong Sing. who lived
in the room Immediately under the one
occupied by the girl, also were arrested,
as were six white women, said to be
wives of 4Chinamen who live in the
house. The three last named China
men, and the women were released on
small bail after it had been ascer-
tanned that they could throw little, if
any, light on the crime.
In Chin's room at % Mott street Cap
tain Calvin found a trunk containing
all the belongings of the murdered
slave. In addition to seven daggers. six
of them similar to the one with which
the crime was committed, and two Colt
revolvers, an automatic magazine and
a long -barreled weapon. Chin admitted
that he occupied the room with fellow
n, esn hers of the On I.eonp Tong buf he