The sun., 1909-06-24
CHUNG DID MORE THAN PEEP
SAYS HE WAS IN THE ROOM
AFTER THE MURDER.

AFTER THE MURDER.
Old Quan, the Interpreter. Gets Him n
Admit He Saw LeunE Preparing to
Hide the Body.-C Couldn't Have spied
Through Trsnsem: There Isn't Any.
Qusn Wick Nam, the old letter writer
and interpreter OF Chinatown. who carries
q gold headed cane and Is intensely
respectable. put the fear Of his own people
into Chung Sing yesterday. Old Quan
made Chung admit that he was In Leung
Lims room while Elsie Sigel's body lay
on the bed and Leung was preparing to
hide it in the trunk
@You have lied said Quan in Chinese.
standing over Chung like a grizsled
schoolmaster adnonishing bad boy
If you cannot show that your own hands
are clean there is not an honest Chinaunan
in the world who will befriend you.
Moreover, you will be- caught In your
own lies"
Assistant, District Attorney Ward and
Capt. Carey had been drilling away at
Chung Sing for two hours and Chung had
tangled himself in fifty contradictions.
For an hour Of the time he had douhiad
like fox back and forth over his own
trail. trying to explain his movemsnts
Immediately after he ran away from ths
Eighth avenue chop suey house. Ward
was tired and Carey felt savage They
couldn't pin Chung down to anything
like an admission that he had been near
the body =
Then old Quan took a hand at Mr..
Wards whispered invitation. The old
letter writer has pretty high, standing
among the merchants Of Chinatown.
The police and the District Attorneys
office. knowing his reputation for square
dealing. have called on him often In intyi-
cate Chinese cases. Besides. QuAn Wick
Nam had been friend of Chung Sings
and Chung knew that the old fellows
warning was not to be laughed at.
Quan made lengthy speech. Chung,
pufins at a cigarette, listened imper.
turbably. The old man told Chung that
decent Cinnamon all over the country
were signing agreements and takia.
oaths not to harbor or assist any Of their
countrymen who had hand in the murder
OF Elsie Sigel. and that he was considered
to bY a. guilty al Leung Linn unless he
could clear himself by telling the truth
Then old Quan Withdrew to the roar
OF the room and left Ward and Carey TO
deal with Chung. They got much
straighter story out Of him then than he
had told the day before when he oon-
fened at the Criminal Courts Building.
He had not told the truth when he said
Ito MIR. Ward that he saw the body only
when he peered through hole In the door
and when he looked over the transorn.
An examination OF the rooms over the
chop suey house yesterday morning
showed that Chung had been lying about
that part.
He couldn't have watched Lsung by
looking through the transom because
the connecting door has no transorn.
He couldn't have seen much by squirting
through the keyhole-the only hole in
the door-because a detective who got
on his knees and laid an eye to the ksyhole
was able to command only q small part
Of the room. Most important, though,
Chung couldn't have seem Elsis's body
from behind his own door. because the
cheap canopy over the bed would have
blocked his view Of Elsie. even II he could
have seen the bed itsslf through the
keyhole.
So Chung took fresh start after Quan's
warning that he had better talk straight
or he would find himself the lonesomest
Chinaman in the world. and admitted
that he had seen the things he described
not by looking through the door, but
when he was In tho room with Leung.
He would tell all the truth this time,
he said. with q glance at old Quan, who
kept peering hard at him through l,air
Of gold trimmed glasses.
About 1890 P. M. on Wednesday. June
.. said Chung Sing. he was washing his
hands in his own room. adjoining Leung's.
He had gone to bed very lats aud hs
didn't get up until well on to half past
u that day. While he was splsshing
his faoe-and here Chung enacted thst
part OF it again for Mr.. Ward-Leung
raped at his door. opened itand stepped
quickly in. Leung said that Elsie wss
dead or dying. Chung wanted 10 know
what the matter was and Leung told
him she had bitten her tongue aud had
blsd to death,
Lsung asked Chung 10 return TO tho
room whore Elsie was and hslp him dts-
pose Of the body. Chung said hs wAs
scared to his shoe tops. but be was pach
IN old friend Of Lsung's that he waufsd
to help him II it was possible. % he
entered the room at Leung's hs4is and
there was Elsie on the bed. he oouldn't
80 much Of her because . shest was
thrown ovsr hsr body reaching to Asr
chin, and the faos wss covered With .
handkerchief stained rcd.
Right here Mr.. Ward pressed Chung TO
tell moro about how the body looked whsn
he nrst saw It. Chung studied ovse tbh
. few minutes and Quan Wick NAm put
the question clearly In Chinese. Chung
said that the part Of the faes not oovsrsd
By tho handkerohisf seemed 10 b d.
oolorsd. He thought 1t looksd maaeh
darker than the girls feet. which were
bare and protsudsd from the sheet. 'Thsy
wsut at him hard about the rope With
which 1t 70 beloved Elsie was stFsaglAd.
but Chung stuck at that. Thsy couldn't
nrske him admit that he had seen The oord
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