Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-06-24
He Saw the Girls Body and
Touched It while It Was
Still Warm.
GIVEN TERRIBLE GRILLlNG
Would Not Confess until He was In
undated by Omcers--Thc Girl
Was Dragged with Chloroform
and Then Cholscd 10 Death
denies Completely.


New York. June 2o-Bullied and intim-
idated bv detectives. threatened with
and confused With randi fire
nuestlons Chung Sin. one time room
mate OF Leon Ling told this afternoon
or E,Isie SigeI,s murder Under tho tor
rife pressure of the third degree" the
little ChInaman admitted that he had
seen tho body in Leon Idngs room over
the I,irhth avenue chop su.v restaurant.
that he had touched IT while II was still
warm. that no had snelled drugs and
had watched Leon Linp's prrparatlons
for placing the bodv in the trunk where
It was found horribly deconposed on
FRIDAY night last
Chung Sin In fact ~ what was leorn-
ed at the criminal courts building is
correct described almost everything
concerning the murder of Major General
Franz Sigers granddaughter except the
actual commission of the crime, He dem
led any Implication in It and protested
sto itly that he was ignorant Of the
Of Leon Ling, the suppos-
ed murderer. But after the inquisition he
was taken before Coroner hamburger and
held in $4,000 bail in the house of de-
tenton to await the inquest
Chung Sin is 81 years old and ma
tive Of Canton. He was arrested yester-
day morning at West Galway. ~ Y.
small hamlet near Amsterdam and was
brought to New York this morning in
the custody of Detective John Forbes.
Immediately after his arrest upstate
and all during the trip by train to this
city he was piled with questions bull
lied. persuaded and entanglcd In n mass
of significant questions. 1t was not UNI
III late to-day however that his spirit
was sufficiently broken or sufficient IN
ducements offered as the case may be.
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that Elsie Sigel was first drugged with
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out to wash his hands, and as he did so
felt Of the body which was still warm.
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restaurant below, then returned to tho
room. Leon in the meantime had covered
the body with blanket up to the chin
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said that he had had no hand in It,
CLAIMED SHE BLED 70 DEATH.
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