The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-19

knees. The body was in a terrible condition and the girl had evidently been dead for a week. The body was dressed in light underclothing and only part of the girls outer garments Could
 be found in the room.
 Miss Sigel left her parents home on June g. Her whereabouts from that time until the finding of her battered body in the trunk are unknown. Her father. Paul Sigel. was worried about her and was relieved on June 12 by
 the receipt of a telegram dated Wash ington which read. Will be home Sum day evening. Don't worry. (Signed)
 Elsie"
 Elsie Sige1 was twenty years old and had for the past three years. since leaving school. been associated with been missionary worker among the Chinese and Japanese.
 Outside of her home life all of her time was spent in settlement work. Leon. in whose room the body was found. the police assert. was a typical
 mission Chinaman." Among the let ters found in his room they say, are innumerable endearing miesives from
 mission teachers and settlement work CTS. According to the evidence in the hands of the police Leon had for the past eighteen months been closely as- sociated with his American instructor. The positive Identification of the body as that of Miss Sige1 was made by the girls mother following the finding of several little trinkets. among them a
 locket belonging to the girl, in the room. My God. Elsie.'' cried the
 mother when shown the loclket. Then she collapsed
 Leon Ling. the missing occupant of the luxurious tenement apartment, was among the big sleeved denizens of Mott. Pel1 and Doyers streets. sports" !" He had been ''playing the missionary game" as his countrymen call it. in this city for some time. Through his Tn1 Iaa o rfor c,Y1f
 at FPS Lexington avenue furnishing
 capital for stock dealings in which he was enga Eed. numerous margin de-
 mands and stock orders being found in his room. Paul Sigel. the girls father, is son of the late General Franz Sfgel. who fought in the Civil war. He is a clerk
 in the board of health Mrs. Sigel is connected with a Chinese girls mission where she. was frequently assisted in her work by her daughter. The police
 are holding as witnesses in the case
 several Chinamen who were found in Leon's cousin. An autopsy on the girls body is in progress to-day. The police learned to-day that on the day before Elsie Sigel disappeared
 been refused permission to see the girl by her father who threw the China
 man from the house. Taken in con- junction with the relations of the Gel
 
 years they had beel acuuainted., this Twas lured to the rSo4n of the China men and the realization of a crisis in their romance led to a quarrel. the girl
 being strangled to death in fit of jealous rage, Mrs. Florence M Todd, a resident
 worker in Chinatown. who had known in her story of their acQuaintance. "Elsfe and Leon. had been thrown to- gether for years" said Mrs. Todd
 'Leon was greatly in love with 'her. Some time ago he went to Philadelphia but returned and sought out the girl He didn't like her to receive attentions from other men and his jealousy had
 begun to make Elsie afraid of him The romance between the white girl
 and the Chinaman was probably the
 cause of the murder"
 Members of the Sigel family said to-
 day that the girl had probably met
 brother says the Chinaman ran a chop
 suey restaurant. A detailed examina-
 tfon of the letters found in the China
 mans room show that Leon was a
 were in all about 2.000 letters all writ ten by American girls in various parts
 of the country. This city. Brooklyn. Philadelphia. Chicago and small cities of the western and eastern states.
 The letters were love letters. Numer- ous among them were. missives signed
 'Nellfe' and 'Elsie" Both of these
 names were appended to letters in the
 same handwriting. The police con-
 clude that these are the letters of the
 murdered girl. Detectives at work on the case are astounded by the revela-
 tfons in the letters of white women
 willing to forego race and reputation for this Chinese Lothario. They de-
 clare Leon used the Missionary game"
 as his countrymen express it. to cloak
 his real occupation which they say
 was the seduction of white women
 They declare that while young white women were teaching this converted
 Chinaman his prayers. he occupied his
 time in insidious love making.
 Washington, June 19.-The local po- lice at the request of the New York police will make an effort to locate the sender of the telegram purport- ing to have come from Elsie Sigel in Washington on June 12 and received by her father in New York. Officials of the telegraph company absolutely refuse to give any information about the telegram without specific author ization from the girls father, but it is supposed this will be forthcoming. From what is known about the case here it is not believed that Elsie was in Washington at all, but that the tel egram was sent by her murderer or an acc0rnrlice