Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-24
Gruesome Discovery in Chinese
House in New York Ten
derlOin District.
MAY BE YOUNG MISSIONARY
Granddaughter of Gen. Sigel of Civil
War Fame Is Missing-Police
Investigate.

New York, June 19.-Packed in a
steamer trunk, tied with ropes and
left in a stuffy room in a house occu-
pied principally by Chinese, the body
of young woman was discovered.
All indications are that it was a muir
der by strangulation. While the body
had not been identified the police be-
lieve that it may be that of young
woman missionary The police in their
investigations found Henry B. Bar
nett, who is interested in the Ameri-
canizing of Chinese. He gave the po-
lice a valuable clue in that he de-
scribed Chinaman who formerly &C.
cupied the room where the body was
found. While there is no direct evil
dence to connect this Chinaman with
the murder, the fact that he was the
last occupant of the house makes him
a valuable witness at least
SigeI's Daughter Missing.
Paul Sigel, son of Gen. Franz Sigel
of Civil war fame, was also summoned
to police headquarters. His daughter
has been missing for more than a
week and the police were anxious to
have him view the body. Barnett
said that he knew young white wom-
an by sight only who was interested
in work among the Chinese and that
he was inclined to thing that the name
was Sigel although he was not sure
of this.
With this partly coincidental infor-
nation, although vague and uncertain,
the police began their Investigations
The house in which the body was dis
covered is in the Tenderloin district.
Sun Leoung, the proprietor, brought
| about the revelation of the crime.
CHASTITY Find
He noted peculiar odor, and fear
Ing that some one committed suicide
notified the police. They assembled to
the top floor, entered small room
and pried open a steamer trunk. There
| lay the body, cramped and partly de-
composed, with rope wound tightly
about the throat and also tied about
the knees and arms. The body was
| covered with blood and the clothing
| was torn, indicating a struggle.
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 comes
from me. Hope some day the happi-
| ness comes to us BOTH
| Warning to Chinaman.
| Paul Sigel later 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 "E. S. S."
or "P. c. 81 the letters were worn
and hard to distinguish) was shown
to Mr.. Sigel but he said he could not
| identify it.
A number of letters which the po-
lice expect will throw light on the
| case were found in the room where
the body was discovered.
One written in English, addressed to
| the missing Chinaman who occupied
the room, but unsigned, warned him
that if he did not stop paying atten-
| ton to "Elsie Sigel' he would meet
horrible fate. The other letters.
found were written by a girl who sign
ed herself Elsie
| Mother Identifies Jeweiry.
Mrs. Paul Sigel when shown the.
jewelry found in the trunk containing
the body of the murdered girl, identi-
fed it as that worn by her daughter.
Elsie. A woman settlement worker in
the meantime had identified the un-
darwoar &C that worn nv tho oir1