The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-06-25
SIGEL MURDER
IS NOT SOLVED
Two Arrests Shed No Light on
the Chinatown Mystery
PRIVATE BURIAL OF THE VICTIM

Body Taken From Morgue to Gene
terry In Plain Undertaking Wagon
Christianized Chinese to Offer Re-
ward For Capture of sIayer-Inti-
mate Friend Tells of Elsie Becoming
infatuated With Supposed Murderer
New York, June 22.-After bit OF
police furry, an hour or two of un-
verified reports and telephoning be-
tween cities, the murder of Elsie
Sigel, daughter of Paul Sigel of this
city and granddaughter of Major Gen
eral Franz Sigel of Civil war fame,
resolved itself into an unsolVed crime
again.
Chung Sin, who formerly occupied
a room adjoining that where the girls
body was found, is held by the police
at Amsterdam, N. Y, not far from
Schenectady, but what has been
learned from him has not served to
clear up the case. At Schenectady
the Chinaman arrested Monday, at
first thought to be Leon Ling, or Will
liam l.. Leon, who is sought as the
girls murderer, has, according to all
indications, pretty we'll established
that he is an unoffending Celectial
who formerly worked in a restaurant
in New York and whose arrest was
brought about merely through his
Strikingly unfortunate resemblance to
Leon Ling.
Thus, with the arrest of Chung Sin
Of no great import, the case, aside
from developments in New York, is
about where it was when Elsie SigePs
body was found crammed into the
trunk in a room over an Eighth avenue
chop suey restaurant last Friday
night.
While the authorities upstate. were
putting the two Cinnamon through an
lnquisition, Sun Leong, keeper of the
restaurant above which the body was
found, was being questioned here.
Sun Leong disappeared on the night
he body was found, but quietly and
calmly surrendered himself early
Monday. He is being detained as a
material witness, but his voluntary
surrender is taken to mean that he is
not implicated in any way in the
crime.
In the midst of all the police activity
The body of Elsie Sigel was quietly
buried Monday afternoon in Wood
avn cemetery. AS her father had
that he wished no more
the coffin containing the
nutilated form was taken directly
rom the morgue to the burying
round in a plain undertaking wagon.
he ceremony at the grave was strict
private and was attended only by
ne girls father, her brothers, Regi-
aid and Theodore, and her uncle,
RAM Sigel.
Mrs. Sigel, it will be recalled, broke
Iown completely when she learned of
Ter daughters death and is now in a
Although the mission in Chinatown
where Elsie Sigel formerly taught has
been closed, a meeting of Chinese who
nave been converted to Christianity
was held in a Doyer street mission to
plan for a reward for the capture of |
Elsie Sigel's slayer. A committee will !
go through Chinatown soliciting sub
scriptions.
Theories as to the motive of the
murder all coincide that the jealousy |
Of Leon Ling caused it. That he
killed her because of her apparent
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tained as a material witness, is still
The predominant belief.
In support of this explanation, Mrs.
Florence Todd, one of the most
prominent women workers in China
own, who knew Elsie Sigel and her
mother intimately, said:
Il know Chu Gain very we'll. He is
one of the few Cinnamon whom |
would trust with my life. Mrs. Sigel
md Elsie also knew him for many
years. | believe that Elsie was in
owe with Gnu Gain and would have
married him, but that he would not
marry her.
within the last year, despite her
owe for Chu Gain, Elsie became ap-
larently infatuated with Leon Ling.
But | think it was only a Irritation.
lie, know, asked her to marry him,
,ut she refused him. In fact she told
ne that she refused him. Her mother
NEW all about IT,.
Various reports of Chinese being
raced in different cities have come to
he New York police and all are be-
ng looked into.