Evening star., 1909-07-01
CHUNG LIES UNVEILED.
Identified as Man Who Direct
ed Movements of Trunk.
COVERED ESCAPE OF LEON
Expressman Positively Recognizes
Roommate of Fugitive.
ASKS SECRET SoCIETY'S AID
Letter Of Prisoner Written to "Four
Brothers" Is Intercepted
by the Police.
ASKS SECRET soCIETY's AID

NEW YORK. July 1.-Chung Sin. room
mate of Leon Ling, in whose room In the
chop suey house at 7S2 Sth avenue Elsie
Sigel was slain June 8. was accused yes
terday by two witnesses Of being in the
scheme to get rid of the girls body after
! 1t was bundled into Ling's trunk.
The witnesses, Arthur Logan and
James White, the expressmen who carted
| the trunk to the Harlem laundry of Man
| Lee. a Chinaman with half a dozen
| aliases, positively identified Chung at the
| house of detention as having been In
| Ling's room when they called for the
| trunk.
The expressmen declared that when
| they went to Ling's room Chung stepped
| forth from the darkness and pointed out
| the trunk. They could make out the
| form of another Chinaman. more slender
than Chung, in another part of the small
| room. He remained silent while the ex-
| pressmen were there.
| This man, the police are sure. was Leon
| Ling, who. half an hour before the arri-
| val OF the expressmen. had gone to the
office OF their employer, at Sth avenue
and 45th street, and engaged the wagon
| to carry the trunk to Man Lees laundry.
Chung Proven Liar.
| This Identification completely punctured
| the story told the police by Chung Sin
that he had nothing to do with sending
the trunk away and that he was not in
the room when it left the house.
| The police will now put Chung through
| another process of third degree and
try to wiring the truth from him. 1t was
stated at police headquarters that Chung
| has become hopelessly enmeshed in his
lies and that he will have all he can do
| to clear himself of participation in the
| murder
morning to an acquaintance in China
| town, member of the Four Brothers
Society, with which he is affiliated. de-
claring that the police were trying to fix
| completely In the murder upon him, and
| that he was innocent. He asked that
the Four Brothers Society. Chinese Sc
| cret organization. come to his aid and
put the crime upon the man who commit
ted 1t.
1T was done by one man. wrote
| Chung.
The letter was intercepted by the dis
| trict attorneys office.
Tracing Implicated Cinnamon.
| Capt. Arthur Carey Of the detective
bureau has tried to get some clue to the
| identity of the four Cinnamon in blouses
| who sat in the room next to that of Leon
Ling's and watched while the trunk was
being taken out. He had a dozen detec-
tives in Chinatown on this line OF investi-
cation, but if they obtained any informa-
| ton the captain would not admit II.
| 1t is still the police theory that Leon
Ling murdered Elsie Sigel because Of
| jealousy of Chu Gain, the Mott street
! restaurant keeper.
alias Yung Dat, alias Arthur Yung, alias
Yung Art, and other aliases. who re-
ceived the trunk at the 126th street laun-
dry. Man Lee disappeared after the po-
| lice discovered Elsie Sigels body and
| has left no clue.
A suggestion that Leon Ling tried to
| bury Elsie SigeTs body in the cellar be-
meath Man Lees laundry Is not credited
| by the police, and men working in the
cellar said 1t showed no evidence of hav-
ing been disturbed.
White Woman Examined.
A furry was caused at police headauar
ters late yesterday when young white
woman, accompanied by a Chinaman. was
taken to Capt. Carey's ONCE. They were
questioned for twenty minutes and it was
reported that their visit had to do with
the Sigel murder case. Capt. Carey would
not talk about the visit
District Attorney jerome has written to
Prof. John Endicott Gardner of the de-
partment Of orinetal languages. Cniver-
sity of the Pacific In San Francisco. ask
ing him to come here and assist In the
investigation of the Sigel murder. He
wants some letters and papers written in
Chinese. which have been gathered by
the police. translated.
Besides this, Prof. Gardner could be
used to interpret stories told by Chung
Sin and other Cinnamon who figure In the
case. The police are not satisfied that
Chung Sin has been correctly quoted by
the Chinese interpreter they have used
An official in charge of the police inves-
| tigation declares that the impression sent
out by certain Chinese societies In China
| town that they were aiding in the effort
| to find Leon Ling is false. Not one Of
| the societies, he says. wants Leon Ling
caught