The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-20
Details of the Fate of tIsIe SiegeI Reveal Utter OspTaT-
 fly of Chinanan
POLICE IRE SEARCHING
 FOR CHINESE MURDERER
Mother of Murdered Girl Is Prostrated Because of the Fact That She Led Her Daughter Into Chinese
 Mission Work.

New York. June 19-(special )-In the sllken-hung room back on the fourth floor of No. TSP Eighth avenue the light filtered dimly through the rose -eolored curtains at the windows today, and the vagrant breezes skipped when the curtain blew aside, quickened the tinkling music and aeolian harps of glass suspended just inside. On a pedestal of inlaid teak wood and green and gold a red joss grinned widely On the eanopied bed a great red dragon was splashed the length of the eoverlet of blue silk In every nook and corner there were hangings and strange figures in bric-a-brac and odd pieces of curiously fashioned furniture The room had the appearance of having been transported bodily out of the Orient This was the scene of the murder of Elsie Siegel, granddaughter of the gall lant Gen. Franz sege and it was the hand of the dead girl which pulled aside the yelling of the monument which stands | on Riverside Drive in memory of the H. lustrious soldier
 The tragic end of this young woman of a proud family Is yelled in deepest mystery except that il is known that she had 8 | strange infatuation for chinaman, one of the sons of the old empire, whose wis dom and cunning of ages is closed book to the younger world. Leon Ling is the man sought as the slayer of Elsie Siegel, and loving letters 10 him from her, found in the room where her dead body was discovered after the flight of the cunning flend to whom she had intrusted her life. l shows fba l,a hai | over her.
 | Hidden Secrets.
 What strange scenes were enacted in this room and under the eyes of the grin ming joss may forever lie hidden with the dead, and Leon Ling will probably lose | himself back in the land from whence he came.
 Another Chinaman Is being sought. He is Chong Shing, who shared the apart ment with Leon Ling He is wanted as q l possible witness, but probably knew noth- ing of the crime until the crafty mind of Leon conceived the idea of having his roommate flee also, and make a double pursuit the more difficult.
 With all the developments and discov- cries following the finding of ;he body of Miss Siegel concealed In a trunk in the deserted room, but one conclusion has been reached by the police, and that Is that Leon Ling was the murderer The beautiful young girl. after forsaling fam fly, home and friends for the love of the man she had met and labored with in i the name of Christ, was led an easy and trusting victim to her death in the cham her of mystery-to a final and fearful struggle In which the horrible revelation was made to her that she had given her love to a monster and a heather who had profaned the religion she had devoted herself to teaching to gratify his own mean ends.
 Prayer For Convert. How strange to know that this young girl barely 28, and fair and gentle had written and perhaps just before her death had recited prayer for her convert and the man she believed would soon h@ united to her in marriage in His name: Il thank Thee, Father, that Thou hast given me power to fashion my thoughts according of the patterns of duty Thou has set before me. Inspire and empower me always to use my gifts worthily that I may glor- fly Thee and bless my brothers. Through Thy powers l can accomplish all things
 The prayer was found in a drawer of the bureau of the room. It looked to have been freshly written, even fresher than that last touching note of appeal in which Miss Siegel begged Leon Ling not to for sake her after she had given up every thing for him. With her coming to the room where the man she expected to marry lived she evidently believed that the man she had trusted was to prove true and that she would find happiness even to the full extent of the prayer In stead she found slow death--a death such as the police have been expecting for years as the outgrowth of the prac- tice of women of beauty and culture min glfng with Chi0aca af fho olt l, missions and Sunday schools, allowing them to call at their homes and meeting them on terms of equality in the resorts of Chinatown.
 Girl Victim.
 The fact that the victim was a beau tiful and pure girl of name made fa- nous by the brilliant performances on the battlefields of her grandfather, Gen. Franz Siegel, one of the heroes of the Civil War, and whose mother had devoted her best efforts to saving from a fate worse than death the white women slaves of Chinatown, makes this first crime of the kind in the history of the city one of unusual interest. and many believe 8 tragic example before the eyes of others of her sex.
 To add to the toll that Miss Segel paid for her efforts in behalf of bringing to Christian belief the Chinese of the city, her mother, who introduced her to the work, was today removed from her home to a sanitarium, her mind temporarily wrecked from shock and grief over the fate of her daughter.
 The father Paul Siegel, a son of the wartime hero, In his pride refused to ad- init that the victim of the Chinaman was his daughter. He stoutly denied his daughter to save the honor of his family, but in vain
 Body Identified.
 Other members of the family identified both the body and the little trinkets and pieces of jewery found in the room The police believe the Identification is com plete. Tn fact since the finding of the letters from the dead girl. some 35 in number. and most of them couched In