The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-07-01
THE "CHINESER"
WAS A JAP.
Amomobile Man Tells Harrisburg Tele.
graph of His Experience
IN FULTON COUNTY'S CAPITOL.

orator, Miss Mabel Trout IN tnlS
place and instructed her to notify
the officers to be on the lookout
for black automobile in whicE
were two Americans and China
,nau-the latter believed to be
the murderer of Elsie Sigel. The
officers were notified, and they
uooked out" The following ex-
agoerated account of what hap
peued in.the next few hours was
given in last Saturday evenings
Harrisburg Telegraph. The Tel
egraph says:
"a rumor In McConneIlsburg,
Fulton county, that Leon Ling,
the Chlnaman wanted IN New
York ciJy for the murder of Ell
sic Sigel, whose body was found
IN trunk over a Chinese restaur-
ant, caused three or four auto
mobile parties, passing through
the county yesterday afternoon
to experience all klpds of inqulsl.
ton and suffer the delay of sew
eral hours until the excited coun
ty officials could cool down and
get their brains in good opera
ton. William Siegfried, former
resident of this city, but now llv-
ing IN Bethlehem, passed through
Harrisburg this morning with a
party of friends in an automobile
and told of the enforced halt in
the county seat of the county,
which has no railroads.
Slegfried, his wife, and another
young married couple are on an
extensive motoring trip. Yester'
day afternoon they rolled into
McConnellsburg for light lunch
con, intending to continue to eth
er Chambersburg or Harrisburg
before evening. Scarcely had
the automobile halted in the
square of the town, when an ex-
cited deputy sheriff climbed
aboard.
"Whar's thet Chink?" he de-
manded tiercely, rolling a huge
cud of tobacco IN his mouth and
flourishing a pistol, which dated
back among the antiquities.
The women IN the car shrieked
and Slegfried looked around for
help. He didn't know whether
1t was lunatic or desperate he
was up against. The deputy
sheriff took the silence as an af-
front.
Majesty of the Law.
"Consarn ye, amt ye got no
r'spect for the majesty of the
law. | be the deputy sheriff, |
be. Whar's thet Chink?"
"What Chink?" Siegfrled ask
ed.
"What Chlnk? Why the one
thet's been ridln around in this
auteymobeel. Didn't we hear
thet youns was hldln' the yaller
cuss thet shot a girl in New
York;"
A great light dawned on Sleg
fried. ooh, you mean Leon
Ling?"
'Srhet's it. Leon Ling. Come
on now tell me whar youns hid
him. You better listen for by
gosh this is Fulton county, and
we don't have no pity for eylldo-
ers."
Just then another automobile
rumbled into the square from an
other direction. Thedeputy sher
III dropped from the first car
Here, Jlm," he called to an as
sistant, who displayed big badge
on the lapel of his coat (the depu
ty sheriff had the insignia of of
nee pinned to his galluses), come
hold these here people. Maybe
he's In the other autey mobeel.
Then the majesty of the Law
chased across the square an,
boarded the other car. Siegfrlet
saw the same occurrences hap
pen there.
The crowd of curious towns
folk was great. To see a mur-
derer was enough to turn out
greater crowd than would a thre
ring circus, but TO see Chines
murderer, well the whole tow