The sun., 1909-06-23
CHUNG SAW SIGEL MURDER
AND HELPED HIS FRIEND
ROPE THE TRUNK.
Watched the scufie Through TrsneoM,
Saw Elsie Lying Gagged Chuoazies
ss Inauisition Draws Out tho stsFy

Saw Elsie Lying Gagged ChuoazIes
a. INCUBATION Draws Out tho stsFy
Police Think There's Moro q It.
Chung Sing. the Chinese cook. oonfeased
yesterday, afternoon that his friend Lsung
Lin, the good boy Of the missions. tnur-
dered Elsie Sigel at noon on Wednesday,
June 0. and that he helped Leung rope
the trunk into which the girl's body
had been orammed.
Not for anything would the round
faced Chinaman admit that he helped
teassd cat when Police Captain Carey
shook fist in his face and charged him
with twisting the cord around her neck
All that he knew he repeated over and
over again. was what he saw ss he pesesd
through hole in the door between his
room and Leungs and what Leung told
him after the girls body had been got
out OF sight 'r
He was ready enough to fastsn ths
murder on his friend. but at the slightest
intimation that he gave Leung hand In
the business OF killing the girl Chung
squeaked with rage. frequently popping
out OF the chair and shuffiing back and
forth in Assistant District Attorney
Wards office.
He described how the girl lay on Leing's
bed, her face and mouth wet with blood,
Leung standing by her side, and he
grnned as he told it. He pictured tsnng
stripping the clothes OF Elsie's body.
and he lighted a cigarette while he talked
He made them understand how Elaie
looked as she lay dead in Leung's bed. her
body covered with . sheet to the sohip.
only her bare feet showing. and he fattlsd
it of without shake or shiver; but hs
flashed anger whom Assistant District
Attorney Ward and Capt. Carey triad
to break him down with the constant
question: ....y ~,
you did tie the rope around Elsis's
neck, didn't your ...- ,-ss
CHUNG FACES THE POLICE BArrERY.
Hour after hour they pounded him
with that question turning 1t and twisting
it. but the Chinamsn squirmed fres every
time. He would not admit that he saw
the short haired mission CRATER strange
Elsie. although he was sure Leung did
it. He would no. own to having seen
the body after he entered the room and
stood with Leung. He denied stubbornly
that he had laid a finger on Elsie alive
or dead. How could he know. askod
Chung, whether the body was cold or
warm when he slipped into the room st
Leung's frightened call? f
He shouted in English and he f0ftoe
his mission teachings so completely a.
+, call on his Chinese gods to witness
that he did not see Elsie's body put into
the trunk. thou gh he knew 1t was there.
He was Leung's good friend and helped
him in trouble. but he would not obey
Leung when the friend OF the Sigels
ordered him to help hide the body. That
he assisted Leung wi nd cords around
the trunk he admitted because, he said,
he had skill in making tight knots. but
that was all he did that was bad. He
hoped that his ancestors would ourss
him forever IL he was not speaking with
q whole tongue.
Old Quan Wick Nam. the wikened
Interpreter. standing little to ono side
in dark corner OF Wards Office, let the
ghost of smile flicker across his leather
face. There is no dodgier old bird among
all the Chinese in New York than Quan
Wick Nam.
CHUCKLEs AS HE TELLS THE STORY.
1t has been a long time since the Criminal
Courts Building in or out Of the trial
rooms has supplied more dramatic
scene than Chung Sings. examination.
The little Chinaman, his eyes bloodshot
from exhaustion and lost sleep. was
planted in a big chair. while big Carey.
captain Of detectives. and Assistant
District Attorney Theodore II. Ward
stood in front Of him driving their ques-
tions home While that Was going IN
the whole third floor of the Criminal
Courts was az still as a village street on
Sunday. You could hear the, roar of
Carey's voice a. he beloved some en-
phatic charge, the quieter monotone Of
Wards RS hs prodded the Chinaman
persistently and the falsetto squeak OF
Chung Sing when they stung him, ~
they did every now and then. TO hystArioAl
rage. Sometimes you could hear Chung
Sing ohuokle. and it was enough to give
hardened interrogators the shivers to
see the Chinaman sit there and srnile
placidly while no described Elsie Siesl O.
shs lay on the bed with handkerchief
stuffed in her mouth
Chung had been against the polios
srindstone all day, but you couldn't hAvs
told 1t TO look at him as Ae sat In Wsrd's
office. except maybe for his red syss cd
the nervousness that allowed despite his
wooden pose. Police officiA after police
official had bean psoking at Chung I'll
day since o'clock In the morning, vAen
Lieut.. Forbes brought him down from
Amsterdam. where he was osughs IN
Monday. It was not permitted to Chung
to sleep on Monday night, very far from
II. The police dom I do business that wsy
in murder cases. As soon a. Forbes get
the Chinaman away from the ohisf iat
Amsterdam, who had been exhibiting him
as sort OF side show to all the natives,
he began to shoot questions at Chung
He grilled him while they waited for The
train. while they made the long ride 70
this city. while they were on, their wAy
to Police Headquarters. and whore. .forhes
left OH Capt. Carey took VI up, For
hours they racksd him With
questions. getting a little here and 1
little there. quite enough TO show that
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