Evening star., 1909-06-20
IDENTITY NOT ADMITTED.
Parents Refusal to Recognize Corpse
Nav Send Her to Potter's Field.

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taken despite Mrs Sigers identification OF
the jewelry found as having belonged &c
| her daughter, and despite statements by
| Franz sigel, the girls uncle. and by Ma
bel Sige. cousin. that the victim was
without doubt Elsie Sgel.
| a West Shore railroad employe called al
police headquarters tonight saying ne
| saw two excited Cinnamon. garbed II
American style. leaving the city on
ferry boat Wednesday night after the
murder Is supposed to have been com
mitted. His story is being looked into.
| Until a dapper. stockily built, well edu-
Gated Chinaman. and when last seer
dressed in a black suit of American cut
is under arrest and put through the poice
| inQuisition known as the third degree
1t Is likely that the murder Of Elsie Sigel
| granddaughter of the old German civl
war hero will remain unsolved.
Leong Ling, alias Leong Lee Linn, alias
William L. Leon, alias William l.. Lion
converted Mongolian. restaurant pro,
prietor, admirer of white women and
lover of Elsie Sigel. is the man. But
| when or how he left New York. while the
girls body lay cramped and decomposns
| In a battered trunk in the stuffy little
room he formerly occupied. remains to be
learned. With him is supposed to be his
companion and erstwhile roommate
Chung Sin. He also may be able to throw
| some light upon the murder.
May Be on Ocean.
Some reports say that both Cinnamon
are on their way to Vancouver. via Pan
anna This rumor Is only one Of the
| many.
All that is known to a certainty Is that
they are missing and that the girls bat
tered body remained behind in the room
of an oriental who loved her jealously.
dogged her footsteps, threatened her and
at times spoke with such evil intent that
the twenty-year-old girl confessed to
friends that she was afraid of her former
pagan wooer.
Few murder cases In New York have
developed more rapidly and at the same
time come no nearer solution than the
Sigel mystery. But that part of the
story which was unraveled here today
brought out principally the mysterious
phases OF the girls life; her apparent
craze for mission work among the
Chinese, her associations with the man
who is supposed to have killed her. and
| lastly. the fact that 1t was on his account
| that she left home on Wednesday
June o.
| 1t has also come out that the girls
| mother. now prostrated, according to re-
ports, SO that 1t vas necessary to re.
! move her to hospital. had been fearful
| OF her daughters safety ever since her
disappearance and had searched China
town day after day without success.
Message From Washington.
| Both parents, however. the mother and
Paul Sigel. the father. are hoping against
| hope. clinging to the evasive clue that q
telegram signed "E g." was sent from
Washington D. c., on the fateful Wed
nesday. This message read:
will be home Sunday or soon. Dc
not worry
The father, as far as can be learned
| WaghinDtnn 10 Ia
termine whether the telegram was sent
by his daughter or as blind The DO
| lice maintain that 1t was sent by a
| Chinaman quickly after the murder to
| delay investigation and to aid the MUIR
derer to escape.
| Leon, or Lion, and Chung Sin were well
| to do. Investigation today showed tha,
| they conducted four restaurants In all
one near Fort George. on the Hudson, no,
| far from the Sigel home in the Bronx
one at Coney Island: another at Paterson
N. j., and another at Norfolk. Va. All
these resorts will be closely watched by
! the police.
| Elsie Siegers entry into the mysterious
ways OF the Chinese came through he1
| now grief-craZed mother. who was lone
| identified with Sunday schools and mis-
sion work in Chinatown. In this way the
| girl came to know various Cinnamon.
Leon Forbidden Her Home.
When Leon, whom she met at the For,
George resort. became attentive he was
| received in the Sigel home and con-
tinued his associations with the girl un.
til his love became violent. Then, from
what can be learned. her father forbade
the Ch!naman to visit the house.
| 1t was then that Elsie, although afraid
of her admirer, deserted her home never
| to be seen alive again by any of her
household. Where she went directly
after leaving home. whether she joined
| the Chinaman or was lured to the room
and murdered. must be cleared up.
| Her body tells only the story Of a
brutal murder The disappearance of the
| Chinaman adds the other morbid fea-
lures.
why the girl cut her family ties be.
cause Of the Chinaman is indicated In the
| following note. undated. which was found
| in Icons S effects:
You seem to be growing cold to me.
Just think Of the sacrifice I made for
sake. don't forsake me.
| sake, don't forsake me. ELSIE. =
| AS to the motive for the murder the
police are inclined to accept. first, jeal-
ousy, and then love mania. The girl was
| loved at least by one other Chinaman
| than Leon, and this may have caused the
crime.
| A letter to Leon. threatening him IL he
persisted In his attentions to the girl,
was dHiois lHc IuASSi<es giving clue
| to this phase OF the case. In Chinatown
a Celestial known as Yum Bing Is known
| to have admired her.
Police activity here has brought about
the arrest of three Cinnamon who were
associated with the restaurant keeper
| Sun Leung, above whose place the body
was found. They are held only as mate
rial witnesses. Sun Leung Is missing.
Girl Was Asphyxiated.
In the meantime physicians are making
and it's organs. An autopsy held this
afternoon determined that the victim died
from asphyxiation. Since there were indi-
cations of poison a chemical analysis will
be necessary. To this end the organs
have been sent to Prof. George A. Fer
guson of Columbia University
One OF the Cinnamon held as a witness
is On Wing, who accompanied Sun
Leung. the restaurant proprietor. when the
latter went last night to notify the police
OF the mystery in the rooms connected
with his establishment. Sun Leung Is a
cousin of Leon and could not be found
| by the police later. when they wanted to
question him. He is still missing
Yee Kim, a waiter in the Eighth avenue
| restaurant, told the coroner that he had
never seen a white woman upstairs over
| the restaurant He said that last Sunday
evening Mrs. Sigel. mother of the MUIR
dered girl, called at the restaurant and
asked for Leon, but left a few minutes
after being told Leon was out.
Uncle Forgets Anger.
Franz Sigel. uncle of the murdered girl
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