The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-07-02
lDTHERS WITH LING
Several ACCOmp|iCeS In the
Elsie SigeI Murder.
AIDED IN THE TRANSFER OF BODY
Expressman Tells of Taking Trunk
Containing Corpse of Girl Mis-
sionary to a Chinese
Laundry In Harlem.
AIDED IN THE TRANSFER OF BODY

New York, June 30.-Information is
at hand which for the first time since
the discovery of the murder of Elsie
Sigel, the girl missionary, definitely
establishes that Leon Ling must have
had accomplices and that, though
telegram signed with his name and in
his writing was sent from Washing
ton, he could not hare been there on
the date on which fhe message was
sent.
New 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.
He told that at IL 80 p. IN. on June
8, the day Of the murder, lean, light
colored Chinaman, agreeing perfectly
with the descriptions Of Leon Ling,
called at his Office and told him that
he wanted trunk carted from the top
floor of 7S2 Eighth avenue to the Chi
nese laundry Of Wah Kee, $40 West
One Hundred and Twenty-siXth street.
When Logan entered the Eighth av-
enue house shortly atterward he found
Leon Ling waiting for him at the top
of the fourth fight of stairs, he says.
The door to his room stood open. but
it was so dark that the place looked to
the expressman like q cave. All the
shades were drawn. In fact, he didn't
see the trunk until he stumbled on it.
but he noticed that the door to the
adjoining room was ajar and that four
Cinnamon, who wore cues, were NOV
ing about in the obseurity. This is the
door that Chong Sing, Leon Ling's in
innate, who is detained rs witness,
has sworn was closed.
Logan lifted the trunk with the help
of his assistant and, though he is a
strong man, found it heav,'. He no.
ticed that it was stoutly roped.
When he got to the Harlem address
he found Wah Ked waiting for him.
"All right; so cents, said Kee.
Fifty cents hadf been the charge
agreed on with Leon Ling. Wah Kee
knew of it in advance, so the express
man thinks, and his views are shared
by the police. There was no hesitancy
about accepting the trunk. Wah Kee
ordered it carried through the laundry
to the kitchen ana sleeping room in
the rear, where Logan left it.
Nearly eight hours later Leon Ling
called at the Office of the New York
TaXicab company at the corner of One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and
Eighth avenue and asked how much
it would cost him for q taXicab to
Newark. He was told $12 and in
structed the driver, Martin Luria. to
call at Wah KEGS laundry. When
Luria got to the laundry at II :55 p. H..
he found that the heavier part of his
fare was stoutly corded trunk.
Leon Ling was pacing the street
nervously while the trunk was being
lifted to the front seat, and insisted
that "a tightly lashed, lest it fall
and brean The trunk secured,
he stepped into The taxi himself and
pulled all the shades. Not once on the
journey to Newark did he put his head
out the window except at the ferry to
pay the tolls.
TO the restaurant at Ga Market
street, Newark, he mad been told to
drive and when he arrived there at
o'clock in the morning Of June 10 Ii
Sing, the proprietor, met him at the
door and helped him carry the trunk
to a rear room. He was paid and
drove back to New York.
The foregoing facts accounting for
low the body got to Newark came
out for the first time through the taxi
cab driver himself, Martin Luria. His
narrative dovetails with the testimony
of James Halstead, q Newark cab
man, who took the body and Leon
Ling back to the Eighth avenue room
on the afternoon of the same day,
where the body stayed until found by
the police. Leon Ling vanished in the
meantime.