Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-06-25
SAW Leon KILL
ELSIE S|CEL
Third Degree WTings Terrible
Story From Ching Sin
GIRL FOUGHT FOR HER LIFE

Ontll one was Oedo WINE CnunS
Looked on Without Raising a Hand
to Prevent It-Denies Having Helped
Former Roommate to Place Body In
Trunk In Murderer's Room
New York, June 3.-Baited and in
| Inundated by detectives, threatened
with prosecution and confused with
rapid-tre questions, Chung Sin, one
time roommate of Leon Ling, told OF
Elsie Sigel's murder. Under the ter
rife pressure of the third degree,
the little Chinaman admitted that he
| had seen the body in Leon Ling's
room over the Eighth avenue chop
suey restaurant. that he had touched
it while it was still warm. that he
had smeled drugs and had watched
Leon Ling's preparations for placing
the body in the trunk where it was
found horribly decomposed on Friday
night last
He denied any implication in it and
protested stoutly that he was ignor-
ant Of the whereabouts Of Leon Ling.
the supposed murderer. But after
the inquisition he was held in $40, 600
| bail to await the inquest
! Chung Sin is IS years old and
native OF Canton. He was arrested
Monday at West Galway, n. y, and
was brought to New York.
From the mans story it is apparent
that Elsie Sigel was first drugged with
chloroform and then choked to death.
She was killed apparently on the night
of June 8, although Chung Sin ap-
peared a little mixed in his dates
But he says that early in the morn
ing of June 10 he heard a strange
noise in Icons room adjoining his,
and looked over the transom.
ELSIE Sigel, the girl, was on the
bed, said the Chinaman, while his
hearers drew closer in Mortified sus-
pense, and Leon 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"
Chung Sin passed through the room
later, he said, to go out to wash his
hands and as he did so felt of the
body, which was still warm. After
ward he went down to the chop suey
restaurant below, then returned to the
room.
Leon in the meantime had covered
the body with blanket up to the chin
and had pulled a trunk to the middle
of the floor. This trunk Leon was
calmly emptying, preparatory to plac-
ing the body therein. The rope with
which the body was bound was lying
on the floor at the time, according to
Chung Sin. Once again he went
down stairs, said Chung Sin, where
he remained until Leon called him.
When he entered the room the body
was not visible, having been bound
with the rope and placed in the trunk @.
At this point of the story, the
Chinaman was asked savagely if he
had not assisted his pal in putting the
body in the trunk. Chung Sin started
perceptibly, but said that he had had
no hand in it.
Il didn't see her no more" said
Chung Sin, and when | asked Leon
how she died he said she had bitten
her tongue and bled to death" Leon
told him, Chung Sin added, that he
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CITY, thence to Europe. AS a matter
of fact, it lay untouched in the stuffy
. little room until Sun Leung, proprie-
tor of the restaurant below, noticed
the odor about the building and sum
moned the police.
Those who heard this recital were
almost overcome with the thought
that Chung Sin could have stood by
in an adjoining room without raising
hand to prevent it.
Until Chung Sins complete aocoun
is made public it will not be explained
preparations for the removal of tn,
body with such apparent unconcern a
the time.
Taking up his own case Chung Sill
explained his sudden disappearance
. after the murder by saying that h
! had been employed by a wellto-d
New Yorker, at whose country plac
near Amsterdam he was arrested
Chung says that he accepted this posi-
ton in order to get out of town, hav
Ing hurried from the scene of the muir
der in fear and sought out his brothe
n in Chinatown, who procured him tn
position. He admitted having Dor
> rowed $3.50 from Chu Gain, proprieto
of the Port Arthur restaurant
: Chinatown, who is also held in con
nection with the case. Incidental
he said that Leon Ling and Chu Gal
bad come to blows over the girl /
Chinatown some weeks ago. The pc
lice theory is that Leon killed the gil