The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-20
ELSIE S|GE[ HAD
A Chinese LOVER
Mystery of New York Girls Muir
der Still Far From
Solution.
OFFICERS SEARCHING FOR
CONVERTED" M0NG0LIAN
Victims Craze for Mission
Work and Associations With
Supposed Slayer Revealed.

NEW YORK, june l9.-Untll a dap
per, stockily-built Chinese, we'll edu-
Gated and when last seen dressed in
arrest and put through the police in
QUESTION known as the s'third degree, -
it is likely that the murder of Elsie
Sigel, granddaughter of General Franz
Sigcl. civil war hero, will remain un-
solved. Leon Ling, alias Leong Lee
Linn, alias William l.. Leon, alias Will
liam j.. Lion, converted Mongollan,
restaurant proprietor, admirer of white
women and lover of Elsie Sigel, IS thc
man. But when or how he left New
York while the girls body lay cramped
and decomposing IN battered trunk
IN The siufry little room he formerly
occupied. remains to be learned. With
him is supposed to be his companion
and crstwhic roommate, Chung Sin,
who alike NAV he able 10 throw some
light upon the murder.
Some reports say that both China
men are on their way to Vancouver
via Panama. but this rumor is only
one OF many.
Rapid Developments.
Few murder cases in New York have
developed more rapidly and at the same
time come no nearer solution than the
SigcI mystery. The mysterious phases
Of the girl s life were brought out to-
day; her apparent craze for mission
work among the Chinese; her assoc,a
tions with the man who IS supposed
to have killed her and lastly, the fact
that ii was on his account that she
III. NJ Nn,n
1t has also come out shat the girl s
mother, now prostratcd, according &c
reports, and in hospital, had been
fearful of her daughter safety eve,
since the girl s disappearance and had
searched Chinatown day after day
without success.
The mother and Paul Sigel, the
father. arc hoping. however, against
hope. clinging to the evasive clue that
a telegram signed ''E. So was sent
from Washington. D, c.. on the fate
full Wednesday. This message read:
.'WiIl be home Sunday or soon
Don t worry.
Ruse Is Suspected.
The father, as far as can he learned
hurried 10 Washington today TO de
tcrmine whether thc telegram was sent
bv his daughter or as n blind. The
police maintain that II was sent by q
Chinaman quickly after the murder, as
Il Tusc.
Leon or Lion and Chung Sin, investi'
CATION showed today, conducted four
restaurants in all. ono near Fort
George on the Hudson, not far from
the Sigel home in the Bronx, one at
Concv island: another at Paterson, n
J.. and another mt Norfolk, Va,
Elsie Sigcl's entry into the mystic
rious ways OF the Chinese came through
her mother, who was long identified
with Sunday schools and mission work
in. Chinatown In this way the girl
came TO know various Cinnamon, and
when Leon, whom she met at the Fort
George resort. became attentive be was
received in the Sigel home and contin-
ued his associations with the girl until
his love became violent. Then, from
what can be learned. the father forbid
the Chinaman to visit the house.
1t was then that Elsie, although
afraid Of her admirer, deserted her
home. That The girl cut her family ties
because Of the Chipaman is Indicated
in the following note, undated, which
was found in Leon 5 effects:
''Nou seem to he growing cold 10 me.
just think Of the sacrifice | made for
family, my friends. For God S
sake don't foTsakc me.
(Signcd( ELSIE
Theory AS to Motive.
As to the motive for the murder,
the police are inclined to accept first
jealousy and then love mania. let
ter to Leon threatening him IT he per-
sisted in his attentions TO the girl was
among tho missives found In CHINA
town a Celestial known Us Yum Bing Is
known TO have admired the girl.
Police activity here has brought
about the arrest of three Cinnamon who
were associated with The restaurant
keeper. Sun Leung. above whose place
the body was found, but they are held
only as material witnesses. Sun Leung
is missing,
An autopsy held this afternoon deter
mined that the victim died from as
phvyia. but since there were indications
of poison present, chemical analysis
Will be necessary
Uncle Gave Warning,
Franz Sigel an uncle OF the mur-
dercd girl. has come TO the aid OF the
stricken family of his brother. For
some time, 1T is said. he has been
cstranged from them because of Miss
Sigel IS activity among the Chinese, He
said that be warned Miss Sigel many
times against asSoclatlng with Chinese.
Speaking rs the uncle of Elsie, - he
said, 81 warn all women against asso-
ciation with Cinnamon. either in church
or otherwise I do not believe one in
a thousand of the so.called conversions
Of Cinnamon Is genuine.
"My niece was an innocent girl. She
had few associates outside of those
chosen for ,ber by her mother, and she
honestly believed her mission to Chris
tlaniZe Cinnamon,
"Too late she realized that the feel
ng of the Mongolian toward whito
is animal feeling. / believe
1 spirit Of animal revenge
Ono of tho odd phases of the cnen is