The sun., 1909-06-19


Icons room was a note unsigned. but
apparently written by Leon himself and
unaddressed, and read:
I hope you do not get mad with me be-
cause all the trouble starts with me- We
hope some day that happiness will come TO
both of US.
Z Tho police believe that the murdered
woman had been frequent visitor at
Icons rooms and that he had left this
note for her In the room also was
geography. on the front page OF which
had boon written. New line to Boston. e.
Harvard University"
On the table was copy Of New York
Newspaper OF May II with an article
marked. The article concerned young
Chinamsn named Yung Bing who had
been arrested in st. Patrick's Cathedral
for creating a disturbance This China
man had rushed into the Cathedral shout
ing that he was Jesus Christ. He lived at
lsPell street. In the room also was sum-
mons issued by Magistrate in the York;
vile court at Icons instance summoning
Yung Bing into court.
The police did not know last night
what was the occasion for the summons.
but they say that Yung Bing is China
man inspired by the same reli igious real
that Leon showed, They had heard also
that there was bitter feeling between the
two Cinnamon over an American girl.
In Icons room the police also picked up
q letter written by Henry G. Bunnell. who
lives at the Bristol Hotel in West Forty
ninth street. This letter was addressed
70 Leon and was dated May IL. 1t read:
My DEAR WILLIAM: Your note received
and We want to thank you for your kind In
jvitation to dinner Friday evening, but We
have an engagement with some friends ana
cannot 60 We will be pleased to go with
you some evening next week. except Iues-
day evening. Let us know what night VIII
be agreeable to you and we will be there.
Z Mr. Bunnel is curb broker AT the
Hotel Bristol last night he said he had
met William Leon about five years ago
in Chinese restaurant in Sixth avenue
near Twenty ninth street. Leon was
waiter in the place then. Bunnell became
interested in him and learned that he had
come to New York only short time be-
fore, after attending Sunday school
in Philadelphia and receiving instruction
under the care OF some Philadelphia
missionary.
AZ Bunnel remembered it. Leon ran
q chop s,iey restaurant Of his own near
Fort George about two years ago. and
1t WA while he was there that Mrs. Sigei
and her daughter are said to have be-
come interested in him.
Bunnell said that he saw Leop little
more than a week ago in restaurant in
Chinatown. Leon had not been working
for several months as waiter. Bunnell
believes that he had been acting recently
as a boss for a so-called Chinese chop suey
restaurant trust which has places in many
parts Of the city.
1t was apparent from Icons rooms that
he had plenty Of money. rent receipt
found in the room showed that at one
time he was paying $40 month for rooms
at 72s Lexington avenue, where his cousin.
Joe Leon. is now running restaurant:
There were also notices from brokerage
Arms calling on Leon TO put up margins
on stock transactions.
Bunnell himself had heard Leon speak
Of Miss Sigel. Bunnell said his letter re.
ferred TO an invitation which Leon had
extended to him to escort little party
out for Q Chinese dinner.
with force Of detectives as soon as he
heard Of the murder: Inspector Walsh
and Capt. Post Of the West Forty-seventh
street station. with big squad Of his
men, also were on the job, and within
al hour or two they rounded up lot OF
Cinnamon who freauented the Leung
restaurant. Some Of the Cinnamon were
SO terrorstrcken when they were brought
into the building that they had to be car
ried up the stairs.
The police put several OF them through
the third degree. but they were able to
get no important information. They de-
tanned Joe Leon as a witness when he
Joe speaks English very f1uently and he
declared that he had absolutely no knowl-
edge Of the whereabouts Of his cousin.
Sun Leung who runs the restaurant
in the building where the murder was
committed, went out Immediately after
the body wes discovered TO look through
Chinatown, as he said, for the missing
Leon. He didn't return TO his restaurant
until nearly midnight, and then he de-
olared that he had not been able to get
an trace Of the man
The police and the Morgue keepers
took the body Of the young woman to the
Morgue about midnight. A crowd that at
times blocked Eighth avenue gathered in
from Of the house, andi the police re-
serves Of tho West Forty seventh street
precinct were still struggling with the
mob at mi might.
Assistant District Attorney Ward said
last night that two letters were found IN
the room in which was the trunk. in which
Elsie Sigels namn was mentioned.
One of these letters, written May 20,
from one Chinamen to another. but I'M
address I'd and unsigned threatened that
If the man to whom the letter was sent
did not stop paying attention to the girl
there would be trouble.
A card was found under the body with
the printed inscription. The High
Rollers"
Mrs. Sgel, mother Of the missing girl,
il lust recovering from an operation. At
the Sig home IL was denied at first that
she daughter was missing. but later II was
admitted. A brother OF the girl admitted
also that his sister knew Chinaman
named Leon.
The father OF the girl visited Police
Headquarters before he went to the
Eighth avenue house to look at the body
Of the dead woman. According to the
police, he said that he had not asked them
10 look for his daughter because he be-
lieved. that she would return home all
right in a short time.
Gen. Franz Sige. who fought in the
civil war and was a Brigadier- General
under Fremont, died in this city on Aug
ust u, 1902. He left two sons, Rudolph
and Paul. Paul Sgel is a clerk in the
Board OF Health, in the department of
communicable diseases, and lives at 200
WsdsWorth avenue.
Rudolph Sigel has been in an insane
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