Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-07-01
THEY GARFIELD BODY
AROUND NEW YORK
Additional Evidence Shows That
Leon Ling Had AccOmpices.
He WAS NOT AT WASHINGTON
Facts Indicate Chung Sin Knows
More Than He Has Told
Ling Captured In
Oklahoma.

New York, June 30.-Information 10
at hand which for the first time since
the discovery of the murder Of Elsie
Sigel II days ago, definitely estab'
fishes that Leon Ling must have had
accomplices and that, though tele.
gram signed with his name and in his
writing was sent from Washington,
he could not have been there on the
date on which the message was sent.
The police have also accounted IN de-
tail for the movements Of the body
az It was moved hither and thither In
panic, after the crime, up to the NOM
emit Of its discovery In the bed room
Of Leon Ling.
The facts as to the movement OF
the body in New York, now added to
the details previously unearthed con-
corning the trip to Newark, New Jer-
sey, came out through Arthur Logan,
an expressman in the employ Of the
Constitution Express company Of this
city, who said that at 1890 p. m. on
June 9th the day of the murder, a
lean, light colored Chinaman, agree
ing perfectly with the descriptions OF
Leon Ling, called at his Office and told
him that he wanted a trunk carted
from the top floor of number 1872
Eighth avenue to the address of a
Chinese laundry which his book entry
shows as Wah Kee, number $40 west
,126th street.
Logan went to the place indicated
and found the trunk in darkened
room and says that in addition to the
Chinaman who sent him there were
four other Cinnamon in the adjoining
room the door of which was open.
When he got to the Harlem address
he found Wah Kee waiting for him.
"Tlunk? Tlunk?" said Wah. "All
light. Fifty cents" Fifty cents had
been the charge agreed on with Leon
Ling. Wah Kee knew Of 1t in ad-
vance, so the expressman thinks, and
his views are shared by the police.
There was no hesitancy about accept
ing the trunk Wah Kee ordered 1t
carried through the laundry to the
kitchen and sleeping room in the rear,
where Logan left 1t. The express
man does not appear in the case
again.
Nearly 8 hours later a well dressed
Japanese, as the starter OF the New
York Taxicab company then thought
him to be. called at the companys
branch Office, at the corner Of 125th
street and 9Th avenue and asked how
much 1t would cost him for taxicab
to Newark. He was told $12 and in
structed the driver Martin Luria, to
call at Wah KEGS laundry for Some
body" When Luria got to the laun-
dry at 1855 p. m. he found that the
heavier part Of his fare was some
thing" and not "somebody"-a stoutly
corded trunk. Leon Ling for SO
Luria has subsequently identified him,
was pacing the street nervously while
the trunk was being lifted to the
front seat and insisted that It be
tightly dashed lest II fall and break
open. The trunk secured he stepped
into the taxicab himself and pulled
ali the shades. Not once on the jour
ney TO Newark did he put his head
out Of the window except ct the ferry
TO pay the tolls.
TO the restaurant at "a Market
street, Newark, Luria had been told
TO drive and when he arrived there at
3 o'clock in the morning Of June 10,
Ii Sing, the proprietor, met him at
the door and helped him carry the
trunk to q rear room. He was paid
and drove back to New York
The foregoing facts accounting for
how the body got to Newark came out
for the FIRST time through the taxi
cab driver Luria. His narrative dove
tails with the testimony Of James
HslBtead Newark cabman, who on
the afternoon Of the same day, took
the body and Leon Ling back to the
Eighth avenue room where It stayed
until found by the police. Leon Ling
vanished IN the meantime.
II seems clear to have been at the
VARIOUS places mentioned Leon could
not have spared the time for a trip
70 Washington. His hosts all showed
suspiclouS foreknoWledge Of his COM
inr Chung Sin, when be gWore the |
trunk was in the Eighth avenue house
on the night Of June Q and that the
door between his room and that Of
Leon Ling was never open had Q
sad lapse Of memory. 1t Is clear that
be knows q great deal more than he
has yet told.
Oklahoma City, June sO.-SheriK
Lou Martin. Of Chandler. Oklahoma IL
confident that he has IN custody Leon
IAna. the fugitive New York China