Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-07-02
MISSING LINKS
ARE GATHERED
iovements Of Elsie SigePs
Body Accounted For In Detail
FIRST SHIPPED TO HARLEM

Went From There In Taxicab With
Leon Ling to Newark, From
Whence 1t Was Returned to New
York-Murderer Is Now Known to
Have Had ccomplices-Chun9
Sings Story is Doubted
New York, June 3O.-Information
Is at hand which, for the first time
since the discovery of the murder of
Elsie Sigel, definitely establishes that
Leon Ling must have had accom-
plices and that, though a telegram
signed with his name and in his writ
ing was sent from Washington, he
could not have been there on the date
on which the message was sent.
The facts as to the movement of the
body in New York, now added to the
details previously unearthed concern
ing the trip to Newark. N. j.. came
out through Arthur Logan, an ex-
pressman, who says that at 1890 p.
NJ, on June 8, the day Of the MUIR
der, a Chinaman agreeing perfectly
with the description of Leon Ling,
called at his Office and told him that
he wanted trunk carted from the top
floor of 1872 Eighth avenue to the ad-
dress of Chinese laundry which his
>ntry book shows as Wah Kee, $40
West 10th street.
| hn 10Th
avenue house. shortly afterward, hs
found Leon Ling waiting for him at
the top of the fourth fight of stairs,
he says. The door to his room stood
open, but 1t was so dark that the
place looked to the expressman like
cave. All the shades were drawn.
In fact he did not see the trunk until
he stumbled on 1t, but he noticed that
the door to the adjoining room was
ajar and that four Cinnamon who
wore queues were moving about In the
obscurity. This Is the door that
Chung Sing, Leon Ling's intimate who
Is detained as a witness, has sworn
was closed.
Logan lifted the trunk, with the
help of his regular assistant, and
found it rather heavy. He noticed
that 1t was stoutly roped. When he
got to the Harlem address he found
Wah Kee awaiting for him. There
was no hesitancy about accepting the
trunk. Wah Kee oSdered it carried
through the laundry to the kitchen
and sleeping room in the rear. where
Logan left it. The expressman does
not appear in the case again.
Nearly eight hours later well
dressed Japanese, as the starter of
the New York Taxicab company then
thought him, called at the company
would cost him for a taxicab to take
him to Newark. He was told 50 and
instructed the driver. Martin Luria
to call at Wah KEGS laundry for
somebody" When Luria got to the
laundry at 1855 p. m, he found that
the heavier part of his fare was a
stoutly corded trunk. Leon Ling. for
so Luria has subsequently identified
him, paced the street nervously while
the trunk was being lifted to the front
seat, and insisted that it be tightly
dashed, lest 1t fall and break open.
To the restaurant at GA Market
street, Newark, he had been told tc
drive and when he arrived there at :
o'clock in the morning of June 10, l.
Sing, the proprietor, met him at the
door and helped him carry the trunk
to rear room. He was paid anc
drove back to New York.
The foregoing facts accounting fol
the removal of the body came out To-
the first time Tuesday through Luria
His narrative dovetails with the testi
mony Of James Halstead, a Newark
cabman, who took the body and LeoI
Ling back to the Eighth avenue room
on the afternoon of the same day
where the body stayed until found b,
the police. Leon Ling vanished il
the meantime.
1t seems clear that Leon Ling
hosts all showed suspicious fore
knowledge of his coming, and Chun
Sing, when he swore the trunk was il
the Eighth avenue house ON the nigh
of June and that the door between
his room and that Of Leon Ling wa
never open, evidently had lapse O
memory. Whether he lied to saw
his own skin or that of his pal, it |
, clear that he knows a great deal NOR
than he has yet told.
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