The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-06-19
Elizabeth Sigel'S Body Found
in New York Dive
SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE
One Of the Most sordid Murders in the
History Of New York Confronts the
Police-There Were Evidences
Of a Struggle.

New York, June o.--Identihcation
was completed to-day Of the body which
was found late last night in the room
Of Chinaman above chop suey restau-
rant in the Tenderloin, it being deter
mined that it was that Of Elizabeth
Sigel, daughter Of Paul sigel of this city
and granddaughter Of the illustrious
Franz Sigel, the German warrior, who
enlisted his services in the Union army
during the Civil war The police are
confronted with one Of the most sordid
murders in the history Of New York.
Several arrests were made during the
night
An envelope addressed to the girl was
found in the room where the body lay,
a locket bearing her initials, her disap-
pearance on June 10, and a note found
in the room, signed Elsie all seem
to indicate that Franz SigePs grand
daughter was murdered. The body was
partially stripped Of its clothing tied
with ropes, wrapped in a faded blue
blanket and crammed into a dilapidated
old trunk, where il lay for a week at
least before the odor crept through the
building, arousing the suspicious of the
phlegmatc proprietor of the restaurant
below, who summoned the police and in.
rtituted an investigation.
The case has many unusual features,
notable among which Is the fact that a
Chinaman has been known to cali at the
Sigel home, presumably with the sane
tion Of the parents. Elizabeth, OF Elsie,
was 20 years old and was greatly inter
ested in work among Chinese. It 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 q cane rack
at an amusement park at Fort George.
The Sigel home is on Wadsworth avenue.
The Bronx is not far away from that
resort Neighbors said last night that
the calls Of the Chinaman at the house
ceased more than a year ago
The body was covered with blood and
The clothing was torn. indicating there
had been a struggle. The man who had
occupied the room had evidently left
hastily, for there had been no effort to
remove anything. He was evidently
convert to Christianity, for there were
in the room Bibles and prayer books,
containing names in both English and
Chinese which gave the information that
the former occupant was known as Will
liam Il. Lion, and in Chinese as Leong
Loo Linn.
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
According to Paul SigeI, his daughter
disappeared from home on June TO- Two
days later the family got word from
her in Wasfington saying she was safe
and would be home the following Mon
day June al Nothing, the father said.
had been heard from her since. He gave
her age as 90 years
A silver spangled bracelet upon which
were the initials Il. @ s., was found in
a dresser in the room Some books,
speller and geography, owned by the
missing Chinaman, were found to con
tain rude scrawlings Of the name Elsie,
such as a person learning to write might |
make.
A plain envelope addressed To Miss
Elizabeth Sigel, No 200 Wadsworth
avenue, New York City, but empty, was
also found in the room.
A man who described himself as Jo. |
seph K. Lang, but who is Chinaman.
called at the Eighth Avenue house quite
unexpectedly during the night He said |
he had called to see his cousin. who +
proved 10 be the missing Chinaman who
occupied the room in which the trunk I
was found Lang said his cousin came
from Philadelphia about five months ago. +
Lang said he saw his cousin, Elsie
Sigel, and her father and mother at T
performance At the Chinese theatre three
weeks ago