Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-19
IS BUTcHERED BY A CH1NAMAN
Endearing Letters Left in Room
Where Body is Discovered.
RESULT OF A LOVE AFFAIR
Outer Garments Removed and Body
Wrapped in Blanket.
WAS A MISSIONARY
Bibles ana rrRycrUookS Left behind
by Murderer In Ills Fiiaht---
chastity Tragedy UncRrthed
by Police.

chastity Tragedy UncRrthed
by Police.
NEW YORK, June 1S.-Elizsbeth Seigel.
daughter of Paul Seigel OF this city and
grand daughter Of the ilustrious General
Franz Soigel the German warrior who
served with the union army during the
civil war. is, according to all indications
tonight, the victim OF one OF the most
bloody murders in the history OF New York.
II she is not the victim, the police are con-
fronted with n remarkable series of CO.
incidental fact. Taken from trunk in a
room of a Chinaman in chop suey restau-
rant, in the tenderloin. the body is in
state of decomposition, which makes identi-
fication difficult Detectives are collecting
the threads of a tangled story involving
the girl and her associations with Chinese.
An envelope addressed to the girl, found
in the room where the body lay a locket
bearing her initials. her disappearance on
June 10 and a note found in the room.
signed Elsie, all seem to indicate that
Seigers daughter was murdered.
Body Tied with Ropes.
The body was partly stripped of its
clothing, tied with ropes, wrapped in
faded blanket and placed into a dapidated
old trunk where II lay for a week, at
least, before the odor crept through the
building, arousing the suspicion of the
proprietor who summoned the police and
started an investigation,
Mr.. Siegel had not identified the body
at a late hour tonight nor had Mrs.
siegel. The mother. when told that her
daughter had evidently been murdered by
Chinaman, became hysterical. The father
in the meantime was in conference with
the police. Mrs. Siegel's condition was such,
that it was impossible to interview her
and when the story was told to her with
as much tenderness as possible, she cried,
My Cod" and tainted.
Chinaman Has Disappeared.
sun Leung, proprietor of the restaurant,
who also conducted the rooming house
above, disappeared shortly after the dis
covery of the murder, adding further to
the mystery. The case has many unusual
features notably among which Is the face
that a Chinaman has been known to call
at the Segel home, presumably with the
sanction of the parents.
Elisabeth was 20 Years old and was
1t is understood that she became acquainted
with one Chinaman who may be able TO
throw some light on the case, several
years ago. when he conducted cane rack
at an amusement park at Fort George.
The Siege home in Wadsworth avenue,
the Bronx, is not far away from that
resort Neighbors said tonight that the
calls Of the Chinaman at the house ceased
more than year ago.
The house in which the body was dis
covered is at 7s2 Eighth avenue in the
Tenderloin district. Sun Leung. the pro-
prietor, brought about the revelation of the
crime. He noted a peculiar odor and fear
ing that some one had committed suicide,
notified the police. They ascended to the
top floor entered room and pried open
steamer trunk. There laid the body,
clamped and partly decomposed, with
rope wound tightly about the throat and
also tied about the knees and arms
The body was covered with blood and tn.
clothing was torn, indicating there was
struggle The man who had occupied the
room evidently had left hastily for there
had been no effort to remove anything. II
had evidently been converted to Chris
tianity. for there were about the room
Bibles and prayer books. containing names
written in both English and in Chinese
which gave the Information that he was
known in English as William IL, Lion and
in Chinese as Leong Loo Lin.
Love Note In Found.
Scrawled on a card in fairly good English
was an unsigned note which read: Il hope
you do not get mad at me, because all the
trouble come from me. Hope some day
the happiness come to US both"
There was great excitement among the
Chinese in the vicinity when the murder
was discovered but with the exception
of the proprietor, they could not be in
duced to view the body.
Examination showed that It was first
wrapped in a BLUE blanket, although the
outer clothing was removed. The feet
were bare
Dragging the trunk out into a hall, de-
tectives began more minute inspection.
Decomposition had progressed so far, how
ever, that except for the whiteness of the
feet it would have been difficult to ascer-
tain whether it was the body OF a white
woman. Soon after Mr.. sigel had been
notified, it was removed to the morgue.
Butchers CIeaver Found.
Turning their Atteaton again to the
room. officers found a butchers clever
which gave further color TO the theory
offered as borne out by the bloody corpse.
The house where the trunk was found is
a three-story structure used mainly as
a chop suey restaurant The upper floors
are rented to Cinnamon.
Paul Sigel went to the Eighth avenue
house late tonight and examined the CLOTH
ing the woman wore. He was unable,
however to Identify any OF the things as
having belonged to his missing daughter,
Elsie
A locket with the Initials 'F. c. s." or
"P c. S" Cthe letters were worn and
hard TO distinguish) was shown 90 Mr.
/ sigel. but he said he could not identify
/ it, though he knew his daughter wore a
locket when he last saw her.
| disappearance of Girl.
/ According 10 Mr. Sigel, his daughter dis
appeared from home June TO- Two DAYS
later the family got word from her .n
Washington saying she was safe and would
be home the following Monday. June IA
Nothing, her father said. had been heard