Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-30

dozen men In the neigh boring towns
of New Jersey, and Inspector McCaf-
ferty reiterated tonight his confidence
that the murderer will be caught,
there is nothing known publicly from
which it car be inferred that his arrest
is nearer than it has been at any time
during the past week.
Expressman Losan's Story.
The facts as to the movement of the
body in New York, now added to the
details previously unearthed concern
ing the trip to Newark, n. j., came
out through Arthur Logan, an express
man in the employ of the Constitution
Express company of this city, who told
this afternoon that at 1890 D. m. on
June 9, the day of the murder, lean,
light-colored Chinaman, agreeing per-
fectly with the descriptions of Leon
Ling, called at his office and told him
that he wanted a trunk carted from
the top floor of No. 7S2 Eighth avenue
to the address of a Chinese laundry.
which book entry shows as Wah Kee,
go West 126th street
Noticed Four Cinnamon Moving
About
When Logan entered the Eighth
avenue house shortly afterward, he
found Leon Ling waiting for him at
the top of the fourth flight Of stairs,
he says The door to his room stood
open, but it wss so dark that the
place looked to the expressman like a
cave. All the shades were drawn. In
fact he did not see the trunk until he
stumbled on it, but he noticed that
the door to the adjoining reom was
ajar and that four Cinnamon who wore
queues were moving about in the OBJ
scurity. This is the door that Chung
Sin, Leon Ling's intimate, who is de-
tanned as a witness, has sworn was
closed.
Harlem Celestial Waiting for Trunk.
Logan lifted the trunk, with the help
of his regular assistant. and though
he is strong man, found it rather
heavy. He noticed that it was. stout
ly roped. 1t was one o'clock in the
afternoon when he left the house and
four when he got to the Harlem ad-
dress. There he found Wah Kee wait
ing for him. ''Tlunk ?H said Wah. "All
light. Fifty eents?" Fifty cents has
been the charge agreed on with Leon
Ling. Wah Kes knew of it in ad-
vance. so the expressman thinks. and
his views are shared ~ the police.
There was no hesitancy about ac-
cepting the trunk. Wah Kee ordered
it carried through the laundry to the
kitchen and sleeping room i'm the rear.
where Logan left it. The cxpressman
does not appear in the case again.
Ling Hired a Taxicab to Newark
Nearly eight hours later a we'll
dressed Japanese. as the starter of the
New York TaXicab company then
thought him. called at the company's
branch Office. at the corner of 125th
street and Eighth avenue, and asked
how much it would cost him for a tax
lcab to Newark. He was told S12 and
instructed the driver, Martin LAURA.
to call at Wah KEGS laundry for
somebody" When LAURA got to the
laundry aat LOO y. m., he found that
the heavier part of his fare was
something" and not "somebody"-a
stoutly corded trunk. Leon Ling for
so LAURA 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 lashed. The trunk secured, he
stepped into the taxicab himself and
pulled the shades. Not once on the
Journey TO Newark did he put his head
out of the window, except at the ferry
to pay the tolls. To the restaurant
at No. 81 Market street Newark he
had been told to drive and when he
arrived there at two o'clock in the
morning of June 10, Ii Sing, the pro-
prietor, met him at the door and
helped him carry the trunk to a rear
room. He was paid and drove batk
to New York
Leon Ling Had Vanished.
The foregoing facts accounting for
the removal of the body to Newark,
came out for the first time today
through the taxicab driver himself.
Martin LAURA. His narrative dove
tails with the testimony of James Hal
stead a Newark cabman, who took
the body and Leon Ling back to
Eighth avenue on the afternoon of the
same day. where the body stayed until
found by the police. Leon Ling van
ished in the meantime.
Chung Sin Could Tell More.
1t seems clear to have been at the
various places mentioned, Leon could
not have spared the time for 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 9, 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. it is clear that he knows a great
deal more than he has yet told.