The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-28

h s reasoning Neesstates Rejection of Chung Sins Story and
Draws Attention to Trunk Shipped to Schenectady- Leon is
Dead Police Say They Have One of the Mmderers and
Ian Lay Hands on the Other immediately

New York. June 2S.-FaiIureho ind
any trace Of Leon Ling caused the
police TO give some attention to tac
theory, strongly revived today that
the missing man may not have killed
Elsie Sigel, and that he was himself
the victim of the same hand that kill.
ed the girl.
This line of reasoning nccessitates
the rejection Of the story told b.
Chung Sin. who said he had seen Ieon
In the room over the Eighth avenue
restaurant, where Miss Slgers body
taat Leon was killed, 1t is regarded as
probable that his body was placed in
a trunk as was the girls and this has
drawn attention TO the baggage check
ed to Schenectady, near where Chung
Sin was found and re-chccked by a
Chinaman from Schenectady to Cleve-
land
What about the theory that Leon is
dead?" Police Inspector McCafferty
was asked today.
We'll. if Leon is dead, we have one
Of the men that killed him under ar.
rest and we can lay our hands on an.
other in Ave minutes" he replied.
A story that Elsie Sigel might have
been murdered in Washington was
evolved from statements In an anony-
nous letter, which Louis Fook Chi
naman, who has given some assistance
10 the police In their work on the case,
today reported having received Fook
says the writer of the letter, which is
in Chinese. declares that Miss Slgel
and Leon Ling wero seen in Washing
aftornnnn Of
authorities we're not inclied TO place
much credencc in the letter.
New York, June 2S.-Evidence that
Leon Ling, the converted Chinamsn,
male more than one desperate effort
10 dispose Of the body of Elsie Sigel,
after he had jammed IL into a trunk
in his room in EigfDh avenue, was
brought 10 light last night Chung
Sin, his room mate, has established
the fact that the murder was com.
mitted about noon OH June 8. Wit
nesseS now have been found by the
police. who declare that before Leon
Ling tried 10 dispose Of the body in
Newark. the following day, he first
employed a large touring automobile
In which he placed the trunk at 9
p. nj, on June 2. From the Eighth
avenue house, he rode with the trunk
In the motor car to a laundry In Har
lem, conducted by a friend OF his,
who is member OF the Chinese High
Treason society, known as the Gee
Gong Tong. of which Leon is also
member. With him. he also had three
suit cases. in which, it is believed.
were Elsie Sigel's clothes. The laun-
dryman refused to keep the trunk,
but did take the suit cases. and the
police expect TO obtain them.
The trunk was kept In this laundry
until II o'clock at night, when Leon
Ling is said to have employed a taxi
cab to take him and the trunk TO
Newark. a distance of about eighteen
miles from Harlem. In Newark, as
has already been discovered, the
Chinese friend of Leon, who con-
ducts a restaurant mere, also re-
fused to accept the trunk The fac,
that this man, and the Harlem laun-
dry keeper refused to have anything
to do with the trunk, has led the po-
lice TO believe that they had knowl.
edge of its grewsome contents.
Early In the morning OF June 10,
Ling employed Newark hackman TO
bring him and the trunk back TO New
York. The police have additional