Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-06-24
CLOSED TRUNK ALL He SAW
Police and Assistant District Attorney
Fail to lmplieate Sin in Murder
They Refuse TO Discuss What Pro-
sress Has Been Made in Search for
Leon ling.
lnr Assoelated Press

NEW YORK. June 23.--After a day
of conflicting statements. the district
attorneys office and the police depart
ment tonight refused 10 discuss furih-
er what progress had been made in
the search for Leon Ling. the China
man who Is wanted for the murder OF
Elsie S.gel, nor would they discuss
the result Ct the examination OF Chung
Sin, Lean l-.ng's former roommate.
who had been variously reported 10
have Witnessed the CRIME. 20 have aid
ed In roping the trunk and finally
merely to have seen the girls body.
What progress has been made with
Chung Sin is due as much as any
thing to the offices OF Queen Yick
Nam. Chinese merchant, who volun-
teered as an interpreter. Il Is said
that he told Chung SIN that no Chi
neee association would aid him In sur
pressing the facts or in concealing
Leon Ling: that on the other hand
every Chinese of influence and respon-
sibility in tine country felt that the
case was bringing dlsrepute on their
race and they ali We're united with
the police in efforts to run down the
murderer. Chung Sin then talked
freely, but that he has not been act
ually implicated in the crime itself is
indicated by the fact that tonight he
! Is still held in the house OF detention
| for witnesses and not in the Tombs
charged with being an accessory IN
the murder.
Cannot Shake SINS Statement.
To all questions Chung Sin reiterate 3
that he occupied the room next to
that of Leon and that OF the after
noon of June 8, the deg OF the muir
der, he weakened early after a natural
sleep to find Leon standing beside
him. Leon was in trouble and wanted
help. Chung Sin soon understood why
when he saw the body lying across
the bed. There was blood on the
lips and a stained handkerchief was
stuffed between the lips, but he saw
no rope around the neck. Leon ex-
planned to him that the girl bit her
| tongue and bled to death.
Asked sf that seemed plausible 10
him, Chung Sin admitted that he felt
terrified and that his first impulse was
to get cut OF the house as soon as he
could. Before he left, however. Leon
borrowed 5000 fom him, he said. They
both belonged to the same society,
. ne explained, and he felt bound by
his oath to do that much for a fellow
member. Then he had hurried TO the
rooms Of his cousin with the inten-
ton of passing the night, but his
curiosity got the better OF him and
after two hours he sneaked back 10
the house, climbed the stairs. lifted
himself to where he could peer through
/ the transom and saw the room empty
save for the trunk. That was enough
for him. He hurried back - his cou-
sins and slept there that night.
The cousin. when questioned. sus-
tanfiated the story.
The next day he left for Amster-
dam. v Y, to work near where he
was later arrested.
Alb for Wee King Song
J JOHNSTOWN. PA. June 2S.-The
authorities tonight released from Gus
TO-DAY Wee King Song. The Chinese
established an abb IN the form 81
( papers shown he bad been In A.
focns. Pa. az the time the murder Of
tElsis Sigel was supposed 10 have TAX