Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-06-24
MURDER Of MISS S|GE[
WAS NOT IN CHINATOWN
ecene Of CHASTITY Crime Was
More than Four Miles
from Mott Street Chinese
Quarter = Description of
Chinatown.

der OF Miss Elsie Sigel by q Chi
nese admirsr 1t has been made to APP
pear as If the girl was killed in Chi
natown. both In New York papers
and In stories Of the crime tele-
sraphed to all portions OF the coun-
t:y.
Fhs place In which the sirl's body
was found. and where It is practi-
tauy certain shc was Killed, 7S2
Eighth avenue, il between four and
flvs miles from Chinatown. and, COM
paratively, Is q respectable neighbor-
hood. Eighth avenue Is upon the
west side. and Chinatown. four
miles away, is upon lower east side
The building In which the girl
was murdered, a gaunt 81. uc1re OF
dingy red brick, about five stories
nigh, stands near the corner OF Thir-
ty-sixth street ana eighth avenue.
The first floor 10 occupied as a
sort OF combination store and res
taurant. A stairway upon the side,
over which Is hung Sroll-liks
sign presenting the words Chop
Suey," This stairway leads to pub
lie restaurant upon the second noor.
The third floor Is PROBABLY used
for fan-tan games. or. ~ the Chi
nese that come have been "educa-
ted poker AMI crap ganes-per-
haps faro.
The fourth floor was occupied by
Chinese sports" among them seems
to have been Leon Ling, William II.
Leon, or whatever the heather claim
ell as his nan0, AID 1t was in these
rooms that the unfortunate girl was
murdered. tt
Eighth avenue, at this pci1t, is
the ordinary second class New York
thoroughfare. 1t Is occupied by re-
tail business houses Of all varieties
dry goods, whiskey stores. barber
shops, music houses, groceries, etc.
There Is nothing particularly good
about 1t; nothing that Is extraordi-
narily bad. The further north you
go 1t becomes bet$er-th0 further
south worse. Thirty-seventh street
Is about midway. Two blocks west
o, this house OF murder runs the
greatest OF all streets, Broadway. A
blcck further is Fifth the avenue
OF palaces. IL
Four miles, or perhaps more, d.
agonally to the southwest, deep In
the lower east side, is Chinatown.
1t begins with Mott street. that runs
fro m about First. Mott is about a
mile long, ana, with a few ware
houses excepted, is occupied by Chi
nese. Towards its lower end is Pell
street, and bending in a half circle
around Pell street Is Doyers street.
This is the heart OF Chinatown and
the center, and concentration OF it's
vileness and iniquities. In that dis
trict streets run indiscriminateiy.
, The designation OF east ard west Is
lost. A network OF alleys and courts
run through this end OF Chinatown,
they cross and recross the streets
and anyone but a Chinaman will be
lost.
Near the conveyance, II 1t may
be termed q convergence, Of Pell and
Doyers street is a mission house,
where Miss Sigel met har murderer
and converted" him. Around that
corner at night circle the most aban-
M % Oh T.
derelicts OF those once called women
stagger about, stupefiei with opium
and other drugs, or their dying bod
les terminated with whiskey that
would strangle moonshiner-their
vacueus eyes giving 40 expression
TO faces as dull and lifeless as a jel-
~ fish. They are slaves OF the Chi
nese--those scented heo;1 ems or
those heathens, worse still, who have
become educated. There are hor-
rors there and tsrrors so abhorrent
that the average mind could not OF
would not imagine. Shrill sounds
OF the Chinese music prevent sleeI
az night and to this accompaniment
the fan-tan thieves keep busy. A
Chinaman, cursiRg all things, be.
, cause he may get no more opium
and has been kicked out OF his bunk
will be revenged by kicking tn,
wreck of n white woman into the gut
ter from where policeman VIII
start her on the road to BLACKWELL,
Island.
And not far away the mission
WORK goes or. Why the heather
did not Kill the girl there is a mys
terry. It Is comparatively safe. No
far away is the East River IT ha
hidden many murders before.
II was to a neighborhood like thi
that MISS Sigel went to convert tn,
Chinaman-no one knows what hi
name is-he, like all OF them have
dozen. The name he is best know
BY Is Leon Ling, which 10 somethint
similar to that OF Sun Leung, tn
proprietor OF the Eighth avenu
resta rant, where Miss Sigel wa