New-York tribune., 1909-06-28
TRUNK IN HARLEM, TOO
LEON WENT THERE FIRST.
Confederate Sent Washington Tele-
gram, Says Chung Sin.

ONCE detectives
! night for the driver of a big automobile and
| Harlem hack driver. who wanted to tell what
| they know about the way Elsie Siges body was
| carried around this city by Leon and confed-
crate and then taken from Harlem TO Newark. In
the light of the revelations OF Saturday, when 1t
was learned that the body had been taken to New
| ark few hours after the murder Chung Sin.
| Leon's roommate. Uho is in the House of Deten-
| tion. induced TO part with few more Of the
details of the crime.
According to Chung Sin. Leon had three or four
! confederates in the murder. These we're all
| members OF the Gee Gong Tong, of which Leon
| influential member. and through their
| membership in the society they we're persuaded to
! lend Leon d helping hand in trying to dispose OF
the body and in aiding Leon and his principal con-
| fedeyate to escape The police have the names of
| all these men. and they expect to make several
in connection with the in the next few
| DAYS
! Icons chier confederate helped him IN at
! tempt TO dispose OF the trunk. The police have
! examined the cousin OF this man, and from him
have learned the details the effort to get rid Of
! the evidences the crime According to what
the police have learned, this man not only helped
try get rid OF the trunk, carried the dispatch
! TO the Sigel family from Harlem to Washington
and sent it from that city to the sigel home. The
| dispatch written in Chinese laundry in Har-
| lem by Leon a blank obtained from neaLby
telegraph office, and 1t is for that reason that the
| original in Washington ident1ned being in
! Icons writing.
CONFEDERATE GETS AUTOMOBILE
! Chung Sin told the police that after Leon killed
/ Elsie he for this confederate and instructed
! him get automobile Then. while the
federate gone for the automobile. Leon packed
| the body in the trunk and his own and Elsies
clothes in three suit This coincdes with the
| knowledge the police already had that Leon had
! three large suit cases in his room. These suit
cases have not been since the murder. The
motor car having been brought to the door. Leon
and his Chinese confederate carried the trunk and
| the suit cases downstairs and put them IN the
automobile
All this happened within hour after the muir
der. while Sun Leung and his employees still
asleep after their nights work in the restaurant.
The police satisfied that Leung did not know
of the movements of the trunk. as he was the one
who gave the first news the murder. and for the
additional that Leung had t2ooo invested in
his restaurant and he could afford TO lose that
money by helping to conceal the murder OF Elsie
Sigel
The automobile with the trunk. the suit and
the two Cinnamon. driven laundry in
Harlem There the load deposited and the
motor returned TO its station. Leon at once
went out and got telegraph blank, on which he
wrote the dispatch to the Sigels assuring them
that Elsie all right and would be home Sun
day. The confederate took this dispatch and went
to Washington. from where he 1t to the Sigels
This Chinaman, who had been we'll supplied with
money by Leon and other Chinese, then dsap-
peared.
Meanwhile Leor worked unsuccessfully 70 per
suade the laundryTnan let the trunk remain in
his place The lau1drynan. though fellow
Der Of the Gee Gong Tong would nor consent. and
at about II O'Clock the night Of June Leon
got hack and started for Newark where he
thought he could induce his friend Lai Sing keep
the trunk The three suit cases we're left n the
laundry Leon reached Newark about ? a n on
June 10 and got the trunk upstairs Lai Sings
restaurant with the help of tho hack drtve- and
Lai Sing.
HOW THE HORSES STOOD.
In telling the story Of the arrival Of Leon with
the trunk in Newark Iai Sing was particularly in
terrogated by Guam Yick Nam. the Chinese inter
prefer. who has been Of such help the police
in regard the way the horses standing
He said. Nam says. that the horses heads were
pointing in the direction they would take n they
had como from New York. When the driver went
away. according 10 Lel Sing he wheeled the horses
around and started IN the direction of New York
Finding that LaI Sing would not have the trunk
left hts restaurant for any considerable length Of
time Leon got a hack and drove around Newark
for several hours trying TO find some place where
he could leave the trunk. As would have it,
he brought IT back this city in James Halstead's
hack. told in Yesterdays Tribune. He
rted from Newark about II 30 a. m. arriving
at the house in Eighth avenue between and
p cleverly calculating the hour Of his arrival
so that Sun Leung and his employees would be IN
Chinatown and would know nothing of the arrival
of the trunk.
The police have vet found the driver Of the
automobile that took the trunk Harlem.
have they found the driver ~ the hack I'm which
Leon went 10 Newark They refuse divulge the
of Leon's confederate, ne reads and speaks
English we'll Leon and they do not want him
to know how accurate their information IS. For
tho same reason they refuse tell the name Of the
Harlem laundry where the trunk first taken
from Eighth avenue
LEON HAS PLENTY OF MONEY
The police have learned that Leon provided
with several thousand dollars when he left this
( city He had taken ten OF his countrymen into
partnership in the restaurant No 500 West 1i5th
street, Of which he TO be part owner Each Of
these had paid $500 for fifth interest the
place This cid trick OF Icons. which
he pursued years with his place Fort
George when ne cheated his fellow countrymen out
Of 5000 $4,000 In addition 70 this, several
bers Of the Gee Gong Tong the police have learned
have supplied Leon With money to help him escape
Quan Yick Nam, the Chinese interpreter
/ found late last night asleep leather couch in
the Office Of well known Chinese exporting house
in Chinatown. He has been working since night
the murder discovered with very little sleep
/ and ne naggard and hollow eyed, He said that
he working the clear the name of
his countrymen He said that he not being
paid by the police, but that he spending his
. money.
Il have plenty Of money he said In 1896
worked for the police in cleaning out the gamblers
in Chinatown. that time I took part in raid
on Chinese lottery joint. knocked down six
Cinnamon and shot the proprietor leg
Are not afraid of being attacked ow?" he
asked.
No" he said.
Have any threats been made against you?'
Not yet, he replied. Then he quietly added
Maybe If they dn. ahno. first"
PROTECTED By SAM YUP MERCHANTS
Nam said that being protected by the
N-,ir, mar of r