The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-06-24
Did Not Witness the Act
uaI Murder of Elsie
Sigel as Had Been
Previously Reported
MAKES SOME CONFESSIONS
UNDER SEVERE QUESTIONING
-HE SECURED MONEY AND
DEPARTED FROM SCENE.

NEW YORK. June Z5.-Yan Wick
Nam the interpreter who was present
at the examination of Chung Sin, by
Assistant District Attorney Ward
yesterday declared today there is no
truth in the statement that Chung
Sin had witnessed the actual killing
of Elsie Sigel by .peeping through a
keyhole from his room adjoining and
by looking over the transom Yam
Wick Nam said on the contrary that
Chung Sin absolutely maintained
throughout the examination that he
did not witness the crime.
NEW YORK June 25-Baited and
intimidated by detectives, threatened
with prosecution and confused, with
rapid-fire questions, Chung Sin. one
time roommate of Leon Ling, told
them something of Elsie Sigels muir
der Under the terrific pressure OF
the third degree" the little China
man admitted that he had seen the
body in Leon Ling's room, that he
had touched 1t while 1t was warm,
that he had smelled drugs, and had
watched Leon Iing's preparation for
placing the body In the trunk where
it was found decomposed last Friday
night. %
Chung Sin, in fact. If what was
learned at the criminal courts build
ing is correct. described almost every
thing concerning the murder OF
Franz Sigel's granddaughter. He de-
MED completely In it. and protested
stoutly that he was ignorant of the
whereabouts of Ling, the supposed
murderer. After the induisition. he
was taken before Coroner Hamburger
/ and held in $4,000 bail to await the
inquest. :
Chung Sin is S5 Years old and q
native of Canton. He was arrested
yesterday at West Galway, ". Y and
was brought to New York today. I'M
mediately after his arrest. and during
the trip to this city. he was interro-
gated. bullied, persuaded and entan-
gled in a mass of questions. It was
not until late, however, that his
| spirit was sufficiently broken or suf-
6cient inducements were offered him
/ to cast aside his air of stolidity and
tell of the death of the young woman
Then the Chinaman told brokenly,
! but with brutal hluntness, Of the
girls death.
Assistant District Attorney Waro
and District Attorney Jerome we're
present. and from what could be
/ learned il was Mr. Jerome himself
who finally drew the story from
Chung Sins lips He told that Leon
I I -. hoA
! lain the blame upon his (Chung SIM
shoulders This. together with the
persistent hammering at the prisoner
brought the confession N state
ment of the gist of his remarks was
made public, but the more salient
facts of the confession soon became
known about the building.
From the story it is apparent that
Elsie Sigel was first drugged with
chloroform and then checked to
death She was killed apparently
on the night of June 9. although
Chung Sin appeared to be a little
mixed in his dates. He says that
early In the morning of June 10 he
heard strange noise in Leon's room
adjoining his, and. looking over the
transom. he saw the girl lying on the
bed with a bloodstained towel over
her mouth. He passed through the
room, he said, to go out and WASH
his hands, and as he did so felt the
body. which was still warm. Leon.
in the meantime, had covered the
body with a blanket up to the chin
and had pulled trunk to the middle
of the floor. The trunk Leon was
calmly empting preparatory to plac-
Ing the body therein. The rope with
which the body was bound was lying
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