The sun., 1909-06-27
IRI]NG AND TRUNK IN NEWARK
. STRANGE NEW JERSEY LEAD
NTBE SIGEL MURDER MYSTERY

n the Newark Story he substantiatet
Then the Washington Telegram to
Mrs, Sigei May Have H4sen Sent by q
Friend OF Leuns's-Gslvin's Quest MI.
The yellow and white game OF hide and
10 seek with the New Yo police on one
aide ar d Leung Linn on Ii other went on
Yesterday with no apparent abatement
Of energy and with no greater success.
at least in so far as the Detective Bureau
could say. than at any time since the
nwdry murder OF Elsie Sigel was dis
covered. Yesterday was the ninth day
aimee Lungs uncle saw the stain under
the door of the hall bedroom over his chop
suey restaurant at 7s2 Eighth avenue.
and yet the police are as much in the dark
as ever Leung's eight day start seems
to have found him neat hiding place.
Cant. Mike Calvin came back yester-
day noon from a trip to somewhere or
other without his man. Capt. Calvin,
who has been at arms length with the
yellow people in the; district around
Dovers and Pell streets for eighteen years,
went away in hurry Friday afternoon
and the authorities held their breaths.
When he came back to New York with
onl- the word that his bird had a!tted,
Mulberry Street had to slip back to the
normal Mike held his tongue as to where
he had been and what he had done.
There was nothing DOING said he,
'and that's all there Is to it
Two of his plain clothes men. Brickley
and Nammack. made the third round Of
all the houses in Chinatown that they
have made since the story came down
from Eighth avenue. They wen: into all
the little rooms OF the Cinnamon and
tapped all the blank walls and turned up
side down all the pieces OF planking that
might lead to a getaway, but they found
nothing.
A glimmer OF light on what Leung did
after the murder OF Elsie Sigel came from
Newark. Credence was given to the story
Q, Police Headquarters, Notwithstanding
an Inherent contradiction or two to what
has been the basis OF action hitherto. 1t
puports to show what Leung did on the
day of the murder and the day after.
James Halstead. a cabman in Newark.
went to the police yesterday and told
them that slender little Chinaman
hailed him at Broad and Markets streets
in Newark early on the afternoon OF Thurs
day. June 10. He remembered. he said.
that the Chinaman was neatly dressed
in American clothes and that he wore
Masonic button in the lapel Of his coat
He seemed to be badly scared at some
thing.
The yellow man wanted to know how
much he would take him and a trunk
to New York for. Halstead wanted %.
but the Chinaman beat him down dollar
They struck a bargain and Halstead
drove to Chinese chop suev house at
"a Market street kept by Ii Sing i'ho
trunk, rounded on top and heavily roped.
had such load in it that fiaisread had
to get a Chinaman to help him down
the stairs with it.
"Your trunks heavy as lead" he re-
marked to the Chinaman who had hired
him. whats in it?"
-Clothea, nothing but my Clothes
the Chinese was quick to answer. He
didn't seem to like being questioned.
Halstead said
Then the two men and the trunk drove
to Jersey City and from there took the
lwenty-third street ferry to New York.
They went across TO Eighth avenue. and
then up to Forty-seventh or Forty-eighth
street. Halstead could not remember
which. Anyhow, they stopped at build
ground floor OF which was q novelty store
with a chop suey restaurant on the second.
No. 1872 Eighth avenue Is between Forty
seventh and Forty eighth streets and
answers the description that Halst cad
give pretty closely.
We carried the trunk into the hallway.
said Halstead. Il had a sore back and
said wouldn't carry the heavy thing up
stairs. The Chinaman tried to hire a
negro, but he wouldn't take the job.
Then he found another who would.
Halstead came from Newark last night
at the request OF the New York police and
repeated to Capt. Carey, in command Of
ready had told the detectives in Newark
After looking at the trunk at Headquart-
ers he identified it without hesitation as
the one he had taken to the Eighth
avenue address.
From headquarters Detective Miller
took Halstead up TO Fiftieth street. and
then they walked down Eighth avenue.
When they we're in front OF 7e2 the build
ing where Leung lived and where the
body of Elsie Sigel was found. Halstead
stopped and told the detective that that
was the house. He was positive about
both identifications.
Halstead told the detectives that while
he was waiting for his money his fare
spoke to a tall slim Chinaman who chanced
10 be standing by. He adds that a police.
man was near at hand and that he stood
looking up at the building when Halstead
drove away.
Lieut.. Miller OF the New York Police
Department, who took q picture OF Leung
Linn out to Newark. showed 1t TO Halstead.
The cabman said II matched up with his
recollection OF his passenger.
detective went around to see Ii Sing
the keeper OF the chop sney house In New
ark. Lii Sing said tnat he knew Leung
we'll and that he had known Elsie Sigel
and her cousin. Mabel Sigel. Leung had
come to his restaurant on the morning
Of June 10 in a cab. He had a heavy trunk
with him and he helped him carry II up
stairs. Leung wanted to leave 1t there,
but Lii Sing said he couldn't because he
didn't have room enough, That was why
Leung came with the cab and took the
trunk away.
II the story is as we'll substantiated as
the Newark police think it 10, the telegram
to Mrs. Sieel which was sent from Wash
ington by Chinaman on the evening Of
June q has got 70 he accounted for. 1t is
yossible, the police think. that Leung
nav have gone to Washington and then
COME back to Newark on Thursday morn
ing. or else have had the telegram sent
bv some friend of his in order to allay
the fears OF the Sigel family. The theory
upon which they seem TO be working.
hrweyer, is that Halstead was mixed In
the day, and that in reality he took his
iare from Newark to New York on Wednes-
day, the 9th and was able 70 get away
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