Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-24
CHUNG SIN is STILL HELD IN
THIRD DEGREE MURDER,
CONTINUED from Page 1.)

he said, to go out to wash his hands,
and as he did so he felt of the body,
which was still warm. After he went
down to the chop suey restaurant be-
low and then returned to the room.
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 camly en-
plying preparatory to placing the body
therein. The rope with which the body
was bound was lying on the floor at
the time, according to Chung Sin Once
again he went downstairs, said Chung
Sin, where he remained until Leon
called him. When he entered the room
the body was not visible, having been
bound with the rope and placed in the
trunk.
At this point Of the story the China
man was asked savagely If he had not
assisted in putting the body in the
trunk. Chung Sin started preceptibly.
but said he had had no hand In it.
Il didn't see her no more" said
Chung Sin, and when I asked Leon
how she died he said she had bitten
her tongue and bled to DEATH"
Send Trunk to Europe.
Leon told him. Chung Sin added,
that he was going to send the trunk to
Jersey City, then to Europe. AS mat
ter of fact, it lay untouched In the
stuffy little room until Sun Leung,
proprietor of the restaurant below, no.
ticed the odor about the building and
summoned the police.
Until Chung Sins complete account
is made public 1t will not be explain
ed why he saw the dead girl and tie
preparations for the removal of The
body with such apparent unconcern at
the time. Also. despite repeated inter-
rogations, he declined to say lust wi It
happened in the room when the girl
was murdered. He admitted having
heard a scuffle in the room during the
| night and told of Elsie having arrived
on the previ, s afternoon. the day
when she disappeared from her home.
Did Leon take he.' there or did she
| go of her. cwn accord?" he was asked.
She went there alone" he replied.
Was she in love with Leon or Leon
in love with herr was another ques-
| ton. At this Chung Sin relapsed into
his head. Fe indicated, however, that
the girl had sought out the Chinaman.
More of Story Told.
| More Of Chung's confession became
known late last night, giving the actual
description of how the murder was
| committed.
Elsie Sigel, the girl. was on the
bed" said the Chinaman, while his
hearers drew closer in Mortified sus-
pense, land Leon, he was bending over
| her. A handkerchief was sticking out
| of her mouth and l saw blood on it.
She was fighting with him, but he only
pressed the handkerchief harder onto
her mouth. Finally she struggled no
| more and Law still and Leon stood up
| and looked down at her.
| Those who heard this recital were
almost overcome with thought, that
Chung could have stood by in an ad-
| Joining room without raising a hand
to prevent it. In one version Of the
| Chinaman's confession it is said he
admitted helping Leon tie the trunk.
| although denying that he aided him
In placing the body in it. He also ad
mitted giving most of the money he
| borrowed from Chu Gain to Leon to
aid the latter in his flight from New
York.