Evening star., 1909-06-23
Said She Had Bit Her Lip.

(hinAfnan
without blinking.
Did you see any blood on the f1oor?"
Said She Had Bit Her Lip.
Yes, but Leon say girl bit her lip ant
say nothing more about it,
did Leon say what he was going Il
do with the truhk?"
First he say he send it to Jersey City
and then he say he send it to Europe.
said Chung
THE fact is that you helped Leon t.
put that rope around the girls neck?'
Capt. Carey shot at him.
With his blandest smile the Chinamar
shook his head and gazed Indifferent,
at the smoke that drifted through al
open window from his cigarette Again
and again the assistant district attor
ney and the head of the homicide bu
reau went over the ground of Chung
story, but without shaking his statemen
thnt he had nothing more to do with tn,
crime than he had already confessed
All he would add was a word from Leol
to him that Elsie is dying or dead.
but. according to his own story OF tn,
murder he had no curiosity to ask NOR,
about it.
Did you see any of her clothes on tn,
floor when you went into the room?'
Mr.. Ward asked Chung.
Saw Clothes on Floor.
Yes; clothes on floor" the Chinamal
admitted.
None was found when the trunk will
the body in it was discovered, and it ii
the belief of the police that Leon tool
time to burn them in stove that stoot
in the room before he fed Ashes o
what appeared to be cloth were founs
last night in the stove. The girls shoes
ana stockings must have been torn from
the body by Leon, as we'll as most o
the outer garments. and given to th
flames Immediately after the murder.
Are you sure it was Leon's trunl
that the body was n?'
Me no see body in trunk" Chun.
evaded.
I'm talking about the trunk now," re
peated Mr. Ward
Icons trunk; oh, yes" the Chinama,
admitted. He keep it i'm closet l SCI
through keyhole him kicking II out an,
throwing clothes on floor Him Leon
trunk much time"
| necl, when you were peeking through
the keyhole?" persisted Mr.. Ward
'Didn you see Leon stranglng her a
well as pressing the handkerchief int
her mouth?'
Denies Seeing a Rope.
,, Me no see rope was all Chung
would say to this line OF questioning
He admitted having known Elsie, bu
when pressed as to how intimate II,
was with her or other members of tn,
Sigel family his answers became vagu,
and evasive. He said he had been IN
the Sigel house. but could not remembe
how many times, or when he was ther,
the last time: he thought it might be 1
few weeks before the murder.
Finally he admitted that 1t might hav,
been the night before the girl was killed
| when there was a party at which he
Chu Gain tElsie's other Chinese sweet
hearty and other Cinnamon were present
That was the night, according to tn,
statement of the girls father. that Leor
went to the Wadsworth avenue hous,
drunk and was ordered away. but no
until he had seen Elsie for a moment IL
the hallway.
1t is the confident belief of Mr.. Sige
and Of the police that the girl tha
night agreed to go next morning Il
Icons room in Sth avenue and tha
she had been there only a short tim.
| before she was murdered: that Leor
| was still under the influence of the
| liquor he had drunk the night before an(
| that his jealousy of Chu Gain, who wa.
| I'm the Sigel house the night before Will,
| he himself had been ordered out, had 81
| infiamed him that he was determined I.
kill the girl rather than lose her I,
Gain.
Chung Loses His Nerve.
Only at the very end Of the question