The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-24


the murderer
What progress has been made with
Chung Sin, who underwent this after,
noon another four hours of cross-oues.
tlonlng at the hands of Captain Carey
and mis- men Of the homicide bureau,
and Mr. Ward of the district attor-
ney's office. Is due to the offices Of
Quon Yick Nam, a Chinese merchant,
who volunteered as an interpreter and
in whom the police have every conf
dence
It is said that he told Chung Sin,
with an earnestness that carried con-
viction. That no Chinese society would
aid him in suppressing the facts or in
concealing Leon Ling that. on the
contrary, every Chinaman of influence
and responsibility in the country felt
that the case was bringing disrepute
on their race and they all were united
with the police in efforts to run down
the murderer. With more to gain
than to lose By the truth, Chung Sin
then talked freely, if not frankly. That
he has not been actually implicated in
the crime itself, however, is indicated
by the fact that tonight he was held
in the house OF detention for witnesses
and not In the Tombs. Whatever be the
whole truth of the information yielded
by Chung Sin. II contains the only clue
on which the police can work, as Chu
Gain, admirer of the girl OF whom
Leon Ling was jealous, Sun Leung,
proprietor of the restaurant over which
the deed was committed, and the other
Chinese arrested. are out on bail,
pumped clean To all questions Chung
Sin reiterates he occupied the room
next TO that Of Leon and that on the
afternoon Of June O. the day Of the
murder. he wakened early after a nat
ural sleep to find Leon standing beside
him. Leon was in trouble, and want
ed help Chung Sin soon understood
across the bed There was blood on
the mouth and a stained handkerchief
was stuffed between the lips. Leon
explained to him that the girl bit her
tongue and had bled to death.
Asked if that seemed plausible to
him, Chung Sin admitted that ne felt
terrified and that his first impulse
was to get out of the house as soon
as he could.
Before ne left. however, Leon bor-
rowed $500 from him, he said.
They both belonged to the same Sc
cret society and he felt bound by his
oath 10 do that mucn for a fellow
member. Then he had hurried TO the
rooms of his cousin with the intention
OF passing the night, but MS curiosity
got the better of him and after two
uneasy hours he sneaked back to the
house. climbed the stairs, lifted him
self TO where he could peer through
the tTansom, and saw the room empty
save for the trunk. That was enough
for him. He hurried back TO his cous-
ms and slept there that night.
Next day he left for Amsterdam, y.
Y, near which place he was arrested.
This version of what Chung Sin
saw and did Is as given out by AS
sIstant District Attorney Ward. who
was emphatic in denying that Chung
Sin had been put under the screws
or that he had been in any way threat
ened or intimldated.
Those who know Elsie Sigel best be-
lieve she was sincere in her mission
work and her relations with the Chi-
nese up TO the day OF her death Mrs.
Florence Todd of the Bowery settle
ment forces has never receded from
her assertion of that Chu Gain, who
lived in terror OF his jealous rival.
Leon Ling. and had known both the
girl and her mother for years, is firm
In her belief
Assistant District Attorney Ward is
inclined TO the theory OF Quon Yick
Nam, the Interpreter who thinks that
the girl was lurcd To Icons room by
a report Of his feigned illness, and
there chloroformed after Leon had
been enraged by her coldness and her
refusal to see no more OF Chu Gain,
his Weather rival
The chloroform, Quon believes.
worked too well. and when Leon found
ho could not revive Elsie he bound
her vita a cord and wedged the body
into the trunk. In support of this
theory Is the pathetic and moving
prayer written on a mission letterhea6
which the girl left for her mother on
the day she went to her death 1t
seems impossible, 1t Is argued. that a
girl going on any but n righteous mis-
sion could have written such a note
The discovery that Leon was bred
an actor and the knowledge that all
Chinese actors are trained to take fe-
male parts. did not, on second thought,
Impress the police greatly with the
idea that he would so disguise him
self Chinese women In this country
nre noticeably scarce and tho very
fact that one had been seen travelling
would excite curiosity. II is much
more probable, the police believe, that
their man either took ship as a sailor
or cook or has worked his way south
into some Of the obscure colonies on
the outssirts Of New Orleaas, Balt-
more or Galveston.
Washington. June 23--The acting
Chinese consul at New York has no.
titled tlc Chinese legation that he has
inFtruce all Chinese consular ofii-
GERS "a America TO assist in the appre.
bcucfrD of thP a1avor or ainynre of