Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-30
New Evidence Shows Leon
Ling Had Accenplices.
Also Shows That No Could Not
Have Gone 10 washington.
Movements Of Elsie SIgsPs H.
mains Are Traced Ii Detail.

New York, June 25-Information is
at hand tonight which for the first time
since the discovery OF the murder of
| Elsie Sigel II days ago, definitely es-
tablishes that Leon Ling must have
| had accomplices and that, though a
telegram signed with his name and in
his writing was sent from Washington,
| he could not have been there on the
| date on which the message was sent.
The police have also accounted in de-
tail for the movements of the body as
| it was hurried hither and thither in
panic after the crime, up to the moment
of it's discovery in the bedroom of Leon
Ling over an Eighth avenue chop suey
restaurant.
But though the detective force has a
dozen men in the neighboring towns of
New Jersey and Inspector McCafferty
reiterated tonight his confidence that
the murderer will be caught, there is
nothing known publicly from which it
can be inferred that his arrest is near
| err than 1t has been at any time during
the past week.
/ nc JdClS DIS 70 Tic movement VI lHe
body in New York came out through
Arthur Logan. an expressman of this
city, who said this afternoon that at
1880 p. NJ, on June s. the day of the
| murder, 2 lean, light cclored Chinaman,
agreeing perfectly with the description
| of Leon Ling, called at his office and
| told him that he wanted trunk carted
/ from the top floor OF No. 1872 Eighth
avenue to the address of Chinese
| laundry which his book entry shows as
Wah Kee, No. $40 West 126th street.
When Logan entered the Eighth ave-
nue. house, shortly afterward, he found
Leon Ling waiting for him at the top OF
| the fourth fight of stairs, he says. The
| door to his room stood open. but 1t was
| SO dark that the place looked to the
! expressman like a cave. All the shades
| 80 drawn. In fact he did not see the
trunk until he stumbled on it, but he
noticed that the door to the adjoining
room was ajar and that four Cinnamon
who wore queues were moving about in
the obscurity. This is the door that
Chung Sin. Leon Ling's intimate friend.
| who is detained as witness, has
| sworn was closed.
Logan lifted the trunk with the help
of his regular assistant. and, though he
is a strong man. found it rather heavy.
lie Eoticed that it was stoutly roped.
1t was O'clock in the afternoon when
he left the house and o'clock before
he got to the Harlem address. There
he found Wah Kee awaiting for him.
'"rIunko tlunk? said Wah. "Ali light.
Fifty cents'" Fifty cents had been the
charge agreed on with Leon Ling. Wah
Kee knew of it in advance SO the ex-
presemar thinks and his views are
shared by the police. There was no
hesitarcy about receiving the trunk.
Wah ordered it carried through the
laundry into the kitchen and sleeping
room in the rear. where Logan left It,
Nearly eight hours later a well dress
ed Japanese. as the starter of the New
York Taxicab Co. then thought him.
called at the company's branch Office
at the corner of 125th and Eighth ave
nue. and asked how much it would cost
him for taxicab to take him to New
ark. He was told 81 and instructed the
driver. Martin Luria. to call at Wah
KEGS laundry for Somebody" When
Luria got to the laundry at 11.55 P. NJ.
he found that the heavier part of his
fare was something" and not Some
body"-A stoutly corded trunk. Leon
Ling, for SO Luria has subsequently
identified him. was pacing the street
nervously while the trunk was being
lifted to the front seat and insisted
that it be tightly dashed. lest it fall
and break open. The trunk secured.
he stepped into the taNicab and pulled
all the shades. Not cnce on the jour-
ney to Newark did he put his head out
the window, except at the ferry to pay
the tells
To the restaurant at No. 81 Market
street, Newark. he had been told to
drive and when he arrived there at 2
O'Clock in the morning of June 10. Lii
Sing, the proprietor. met him at the
door and helped him carry the trunk
to rear room. He was paid and drove
back to New York.
The foregoing facts accounting for
the removal of the body to Newark
came out for the first time today
through the taxicab driver himself.
His narrative dovetails with the testi-
mory of James Halstead, New York
cabman who took the body and Leon
Ling hack to the Eighth avenue room
on the afternoon of the same day,
where the body staid until found by
the. ,assss
1t AsaaIs clear that to have been at
the various places mentioned, Leon
could not have spared the time for a
trip to Washington. His hosts all
showed suspicious foreknowledge of
his coming and Chung Sin. when he
swore the trunk was in the Eighth
avenue house on the night of June 8
and that the door between his room
and that of Leon Ling was never open.
evidently had lapse of memory.
Whether he lied to save his own skin
or that of his pal 1t is clear that he
knows q great deal more than he has
vet told.