New-York tribune., 1909-06-20
BELIETE GIRL POISONED
Organs To Be 4naiY2Cd Three
Chinese Held rs H'itnesScS.

| Coroner Harhureer remanded three Chinannen
! 90 the House OF Detention Yesterday in default Of
81 90 bail material witnesses m the murder case
j OF Elsie Sigel. The girls body in the mean tins
! lies at the morgue unclaimed aud Officially un
| known. as the members Of the family have re-
| fused Identify II that of Elsie Sigsl Coroner
| Acrtelll. who took charge of n" case yesterday
when Coroner Hamburger left the city after the
preliminary hearing. has asked the police 20 ind
friends OF the murdered girl who viii identify tho
| body. that death certificate can be issued.
| The body will be held In tho rnorgue for week.
awaiting Identification.
| Coroners Physician O'Hanlon held the autopsy
| yesterday afternoon. and in the morning Reginald
| sgel brother Of Elsie. Mrs. Sgel and Mrs Slgel's
| sister went 20 the nlorgue to identify the body
They said that the murdered girls hair and teeth
| were like those of Miss SigeI and they identified
pair Of eyeglasses and chain as being similar
TO those worn by Miss sigel but they all refused
! 70 identify the murdered girl. and the aunt said
| I do not believe she is my niece"
Before the party left the morgue the aunt kneIt
and made short prayer. To those standing near
II seemed that rhe said. I'VE thank Thee . God
that II is not Elsie" The police say there is no
doubt that the murdered girl Elsie Sigei
After the autopsy In the afternoon Or O'Hanlon.
by direction Of Coroner Acrite turned the stom-
ach and other organs the dead girl over TO Pro
fessor George Z. Ferguson of Columbia Univer-
slty. for examination for poison. The organs
were 20 Or. Fergusons laboratory at No. I2
Vest 42d street In hermetically sealed glass jars.
The examination will be made al
DR.. OHanlon said after the autopsy that he was
Of the opinion the girl to her death by
asphyxia probably caused by poison. The cord
around her neck. he said. not bound tight
enough strsngulation. but probably
used bind the body that IL could be forced
into the small trunk II was his opinion that tho
girl had been dead a week more. though he said
that owing to the hot weather and the small
space in which the body had been confined, II
impossible to say more than approximately how
long she might have been dead.
The body and all the organs were badly decom-
posed, and the stomach and other organs showed
marked evidences Of congestion. There also
strong signs of poison.
Coroner Hamburger held the preliminary inquiry
before the INCEST into the murder yesterday
ing. On Wing of the witnesses who held
in default OF 81 000 bail, was about be released
his statement that he did not know Sun
Leung the keeper OF the restaurant at No 7s2 Eighth
avenue, the building in which the girls body was
found. when Clifford Losey. sixteen years old, who
lives Oh Neptune avenue. Coney Island. told Cor
oner Hamburger that he had Leung in
pany with another Chinaman at Coney Island last
Thursday Coroner Harburger asked the boy If he
recognized the second Chnaman In the court room.
Losey pointed out Wing, saying
That Is the man. If he has a gold tooth.
Wing opened his mouth and displayed gold
nled front tooth. whereupou he was sent 70 the
House Of Detention.
Before his Identification by Iosey WING had
said that he knew Ieuns only slightly and merely
happened 10 he In the neighborhood Of No. 7S2
Eighth avenue on Friday night, and that he met
Leung the way TO the police station TO tell the
police of the finding of the body. After Losey had
Identified him Wing said he a grocery sales
man. Of No. 10 Pell street. and that he went to
Coney Island with Leung last THURSDAY hoping
to make sale Of groceries 70 the restaurant
keeper.
The first witness examined was Ye Kim. who
said he lived at No 2ls Bowery, and had been q
waiter in Leupgs restaurant for about three days