Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-21
SIGEL FAMILY
CLAIMS BODY
They Finally Admit That Victim Of
Murderous Chinsman is Their
Daughter.
TOUCHING SCENE AT MoRGUE
Relatives Identify Clothing and
Finally Corpse Itself.
ARMY MAN IN LOVE WITH HER
White Sweetheart, Said to Be in
Wyoming, is New Figure.
CLUES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
Police of Many cities Are On watch
for Supposed Murderer and His
COmpaniOn-DeveIO
of the Day.
Relatives Identify Clothing and
Finally Corpse Itself.
ARMY MAN IN LOVE WITH HER
White Sweetheart, Said to Be in
Wyoming, is New Figure.
CLUES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

NEW YORK, June 20.-Leon Ling, with
his string Of English-Chinese aliases and
his American clothes, may never be found
but the mutilated body of the New YORK
giri left behind in a trunk in his room
will not be buried in the potters field.
Paul Sigel, the father claimed and posi-
lively identified the body at the morgue
tonight. admitting for the first time that
the victim was his daughter, Elsie.
The girls mother, now in a sanitarium,
had previously identified the jewelry; an
other woman had identified the under
clothing and relatives had said that the
murdered girl was Elsie Sigel, grand
daughter Of General Franz Sigel.
Until this evening the father had main
tained an attitude Of silence But after
conference at police headquarters this aft
ernoon. he visited the morgue, accompanied
by Franz sigel, a brother, and Reginald, a
son. and by Mabel Sigel, a cousin Of the
victim. 1t was almost dark when the little
party reached the morgue. There were no
tears but their faces were strained and
pale asthey entered the gloomy place
First the clothing on the body was exam
ned by Mabel Sigel.
Touching Scene At MOrEue.
Elsie" said the girl as she examined
it. used to wear peculiar white-headed
pin"
A detective ran his fingers through the
clothing and in a moment held up white
headed pin. Mabel Sigel nodded.
Elsie Sigel wore that she said. After
moment she was sure that the clothing
was that worn by her cousin.
The party passed into the dead room
where the body lay in a long, coffin-like
drawer. Amid silence the compartment
was drawn out. The face was first uncov-
cred and the teeth examined. The father
was silent but Mabel Sigel was quick to
note the teeth.
Body Is Identified.
"Those are Elsie's teeth" she said land
her hands, too
Paul Sigel nodded his head affirmatively
as each new feature was brought out to
strengthen the Identification. Coroner Har-
burger asked the father IL he was certain
the body was that Of his daughter.
Are you satisfied in every way of the
accuracy Of the identlfication?" he was
asked.
'I am satisfied" said the man in a
broken voice, as he was led away. Franz
Sigel made arrangements for the removal
OF the body and for the funeral.
Elsie Sigel's stomach, however, is In the
hands of the Columbia university professor,
who will make a chemical analysis of its
contents. Although the murder is supposed
to have been committed Wednesday, June
9, the exact cause of the death has never
been ascertained. While the autopsy deter
mined that death possibly was due to
asphyxia, whether she was choked, smoth-
cred under a pillow or drugged, bound with
ropes and left to die horribly in the trunk
is as much a mystery as the whereabouts
OF Leon and his pal, Chung Sin.
Father Talks of Case.
Mr.. Sigel, at his home tonight, after re-
turning from the morgue, gave out an
interview, the first since the discovery Of
the murder. He said that the funeral
would not be held from the house.
THE disgrace has been keen enough as
it is without having the funeral from here
in front of a gazing crowd" he said. my
wife and 1 have aged ten years in the last
week
This should be lesson to young girls
not to mix with other than their own peo-
pie. I have not slept for four or five days,
but now that the Identification is certain,
l feel that can get little rest. Funeral
arrangements will be made tomorrow, But
II will be a quick funeral and no one will
know anything about It but the members
of the family, IL can avoid It,"
Aside from the positive Identification of
the body, there were no new developments
in the case here today. Chu Gain, mana
ger of the Port Arthur restaurant in China
town, who was detained last night as a
witness, was held without bail until Tues
day. He has admitted that ne knew Elsie
sigel well, and had incurred the enmity
| of Leon Ling, and that both he (Chu CAIN
and the girl had been threatened with
death.
Theories as TO exactly how the girl was
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