Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-19
did ELSIE SIGEL
Love | i THECH|NAMAN?.
In One Letter to Him Size Said.
t'Jlst Think Of the Sacrifice |
Have Made for YOU
OTHER WOMEN WROTE TO HIM
Nearly Two Thousand Letters from
New York Women Found Ii, His
Isooln-Cannot Locate Him.

New York, Juno 19.The murder of
Miss Elsie Slgel, granddaughter OF
Gen. Franz sigel. whose body was
found last night crowded into a trunk
in the room OF a Cfinaman after size
lad been strangled with Il curtain cord,
appears to be the most remarkable
case the New York police have had to
investigate in many years.
One of the odd phases OF the case Is
the failure OF the murdered girls father.
Paul Sigel. to identify the body as that
Of his daughter, while the girls mother
has declared that the articles of iewelrY
found in the room with the body be-
long to the daughter Acquaintancess
OF Miss Sigel who have seen the body
of the murdered girl, assert thatsit Is
that of Miss Sigel, and a number Of
persons have been found by, the poliee
who declare that the young woman has
been d friend OF the Chinaman, William
L. Leon, in whose room the body WAS
found.
Notwithstanding these identiffcations,
it was stated at the homo OF Mr.. Slscl
today that Paul Sigel, the girls father,
had gone to Washington to bring Ell
sic home 5l3
CHINAAIAN STILL UNBOUND. 4
Leon, who was a lso known by several
Chinese names, was still unbound today
as was also Chung Sin, who occupies a
room adjoining that of Leon. Both
rooms are on the fourth floor OF Ts2
Eighth avenue, between Forty-seventh
and FortY-elghth streets. over ii Chi-%
| nese restaurant conducted by Sun Lee
ung. The police are searching for Lee
on, but With scant hope of finding him..
las 1t is believed the murder was com
| mtted possibly as carly as Thursday.
Today the police gave out a report that
Leon and Chung Sin had sailed last
Friday for Vancouver, B. C., on a
steamer by the way OF the isthmus Of
4 Panama. Precautions have heen taken
to intercept them if possible.
The police Of Washington have been
asked to aid the New York police by
i finding the original copy Of a tele-.
I gram which was received by the girls
parents from that city last Saturday.
saying:
81 Will be home BY the end or tho
4 week. Don't worrs.a,
1t was signed With the name Elsie
Sigel. Miss Sigel has been engaged in
missionary work among the Chinese OF
Il the city for IL few years, having be-
4 come interested therein by the acti-s
witty or her mother in behalf or the
Characterization of the orientats. The.
4 young woman was about 20 years of
age. This morning Florence Todd, one
/ OF the missionary workers in the Chin
csc section, Whoidentified Miss Sigel's
1 body, told the police that the girl and
! the Chinalnan had been thrown much
\ together for Il few years and that
Leon was greatly enannored of the
/ girl, that he8was intensely jealous of
her and disliked her to receive the att
4 ed Miss Sige to fear Leon, Miss Todd
| said.
Icons CORRESPONDENTS.
! than Miss Sigel was discovered when
! between 1000 and 5, 900 letters. mainly
| from various women In New " rk and
4 other cities We're found in his rooIn.
\ Among the number were n number
signed Elsie which were described
by the police ms love letters. The con-
4 tents of most of them was not re-
yealed by the police, but in one OF
them elsie repfoached Leon for
causing trouble between her father
and herself. Just think of the sacri-.
4 fee have made for you," she wrote
| in one letter.
| A note book belonging to Leon and
containing. the names and addresses
OF hundreds of women and girls Was
| found in Leon's room.
| One of the discoveries regarded by
| the police as significant is that Miss
| Sigels shoes and stockings We're not
1 found In the room where her body was
\ discovered. 1t is inferred from this
| that she had been Kept q prisoner
I there and that her footwear was taken
| from her to prevent her from leaving