The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-23
ALLEGED MURDERER : IS IMPERSONATOR
POLICE LOOKING FOR LEON LING, CHINESE SUSPECT,
 DISGUISED AS WOMAN
Latest Order Sent. Out Today
Vigorous Search Being Made of All Secret Subterranean Haunts in Chi natown, Where Missionary Girls Slayer is Supposed to Have Taken Refuge.
Special from United Press.)

Special from United Press.)
 New York, June 23.-"Look for Leon Ling. disguised as a woman, hiding in the secret subterranean haunts of your Chinatown where the Celectials con- ceal the females of their race.'
 This, in effect. is the latest order sent out by the New York police in the search for the alleged murderer of Elsie Sigel. the girl missionary. It followed the receipt of a letter by As sistant District Attorney Ward to-day informing him that Leon came to this country six years ago with a Chinese theatrical troop and that he is an ac- complshed impersonator. He played the parts of women five years, the let the role of a female that he deceives his most intimate Chinese friends. It is said that when Leon is in cities where Chinese openly appear on the used this training to accomplish his purposes in many of the plots in which he is known to have been involved.
 This new information has given strength to the belief that Leon has made his way to one of the Pacific coast cities or to New Orleans or Gal weston where the Chinese colonies are strong. If he was in Washington, it is thought. he probably went to Gal weston where he received aid from
  bringing Chinese women to this coun- try, crossing the Rio Grande and en- tering the United States from the in terior.
 His journey might have been accom- plished, the police say. without those aiding him knowing the character of his flight. Leon is a member of the Gee Clong Tong, the evolutionary so- ciety, the object of which is to over throw the present government of China and which is .sxery strong in most American and South AmerfcaH cities If Leon had pretended to be on some important mission for this Tong, he would have had the aid of the most extensive underground workings of the Chinese. In the disguise of a woman it is believed that Leon hoped to escape detection and would take passage on a transatlantic steamer.
 San Francisco. June 23.-The China town squad. under the direction of Chief Cook. who knows more of the underground life of the Orientals than any other white man. is making a sys- tematic search for a trace of Leon Ling. wanted in New York as the a1- legged murderer of Elsie Sigel. The SO- called "new Chinatown is believed to be devoid of the subterranean cham bers and passageways which made the Chinese quarter famous throughout the western world. The police know. how ever. that the hunting of the Orients has caused this information to be put in circulation.
 They say the "old rat nests'' have been burrOughed over again and that they have been kept in far deeper secrecy than before. The Chinese al- ways resented the visits of tourists and police to their underground abodes and even before the fire. when the place had been thoroughly explored by the police it was possible for a Chinese to drop utterly out of sight and re- main beyond the reach of the police as long they desired.