Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-06-23
STUFFED RAG
IN HER MOUTH
Then Miss Sigel Lay
Still Said the
Chinaman
PACKED BODY IN TRUNK
Details Of Heinous New York
Details Of Heinous New York
lin Crime Told by Chung
Sin,


came known today when the story of
the third degree examination" of
Chung Sin at the hands Of tie detec-
tiyes was told Sin was examined
for thirty hours before he finally told
Of the crime. He said he was occupy
ing a room next to Leon Ling alias
William Leon, when he heard scuf-
fling. He peeped through keyhole
and saw the girl struggling with
Leon. Then to get "a better view, he
looked over a transom and saw Leon
stuffing a rag in the girls mouth.
Then Miss Sigel lay STILL" the China
man said, and Leon went to a closet
and drew out a trunk in which he
placed the body after tying a rope
about her neck. Chung was tired
with the long hours of the third de-
gree when he made the admissions.
He stoutly denied that he had any
thing to do with the matter but said
he stood and looked on while the
murder was being perpetrated. He
said Leon called him after the mur-
der and he came to Leon's Nom but
soon left. When he came again Ell
sic was gone and he saw her no more.
A Revolving Confession.
New York, June 23.-More OF
Chung Sins confession became known
late last night, giving the actual de-
scription of how the murder was
committed.
Elsie was on the bed,' said the
Chinaman, while his hearers drew
closer in Mortified suspense, "and
Leon, he was bending over her. A
handkerchief was sticking out of her
mouth, and / saw the blood on it. She
was fighting with him, but he only
pressed the handkerchief harder into
her mouth. Finally she struggled no
more and lay still and Leon stood up
and looked down at her.
He passed through the room, he
said, to go out to wash his hands,
and as he did so felt the body, which
was still warm. Leon, in the mean
time, had covered the body with
blanket up to the chin and had pulled
a trunk to the middle of the floor.
Leon was calmly emptyng the trunk
preparatory to placing the body there.
in.
Those who heard this recital were
almost overcome with the thought
that Chung Sin could have stood by
in the adjoining room without raising
a hand to prevent it, In one version
of the Chinaman's confession 1t is
said he admitted helping Leon Ling
to tie the trunk, although denying
that he aided him in placing the
body in it. He also admitted giving
most of the money which he borrowed
from Chu Gain to Leon Ling to aid
the latter in his flight from New
York
Still Mystifed.
New York, June 23.-The fourteenth
day since the murder has elapsed and
the police are without tangible clew
to the whereabouts of Leon Long. All
they know is he was in the room
when the murder was committed on
June 10. From that time all trace
of him was lost except for the posi-.
bility that he was In Washington on
the eleventh or twelfth, but the de.
tectives do not regard the fact that a
telegram sent from there signed Elsie
is conclusive that Leon was there too.
The police believe that Leon may
have gone west to the coast to take a
boat for China, but also believe he
may be in New York. Leon belong
ed to at least one powerful Chinese
secret society and would have no
trouble getting funds to escape. The
news that something had happened to
Elsie Sigel was whispered about the
Chinese quarters days before the dis
covery Of the murder but no Chinese
was found who would tell he knew OF
the murder The district attorneys
Office believes that Leon may be hid
ing in the guise Of a woman in the
Chinese quarters as ne gained admis-
sion to this country as an actor under
the immigration law. He Is a female
impe. .sonator. The police Of south
ern cities have been asked to look for
him.
Who Wouldn't BE Nervous.
Johnstown, Pa, June pa China
man arrested at Windber, Pennsylva-
MIA, near here is believed to be Leon
Ling, wanted in New York for the
death of Miss Elsie Sigel. He an
swers the description of the fugitive
and arrived in this section last night.
When arrested he was nervous but
denied he was Ling. It was reported
he had made confession but this is