Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-24
CHINAMAN TELLS
MORE OF MURDER
Under Pressure of Influential Coun-
tryman, He Talks with Free.
doom to Police.
HE DIDN'T SEE ACTUAL DEED
Arrived, However, on Scene Just
After it Occurred.
GIRL rs GIVEN A GOOD ,
Those Who Know Her Best Bel z z
Conduct Was Upright.
C0R0B0RATED BY THE CELESTIAL
Country is Being Secured, Thus Far
without Success, for Leon
Ling, slayer of the
Girl.
GIRL IS GIVEN A GOOD
Those Who Know Her Best Bel z
Conduct Was Upright.
COROBoRATED BY THE CELESTIAL

NEW YORK, N. y, June 2S-After
day Of conflicting statements, the district
attorneys office, acting under instructions
from Mr.. Jerome, and the police depart
ment under orders from Commissioner
bingham, refused tonight to discuss fur
ther what progress had been made in the
search for Leon Ling, the Chinaman who
Is wanted for the murder Of Elsie Slgel
whose body was found in a trunk in
room over an Eighth avenue chop suey
restaurant last Friday night
Nor would they discuss the results Of the
examination Of Chung Sin, Leon LinE's
former roommate who has been variousy
reported to have witnessed the crime to
have aided In ropng the trunk, and finally
merely to have seen the girls body. There
have been hourly reports of clues from all
parts OF the country, but none Of them, on
close examination, brings the authorities
any nearer to the murdered.
What progress has been made with
Chung Sin, who underwent this afternoon
another four hours Of cross-questionng at
the hands of Captain Carey and his men
Of the homicide bureau and Mr.. Ward Of
the district attorneys office is due as
much as anything to the offices OF Quon
Yick Nam, a Chinese merchant, who vol
unteered as an interpreter, and In whom
the police have every confidence
Chung sin Must Tell Truth.
It is said that he told Chung sin with
an earnestness that carried conviction, that
no Chinese society would aid him in sup
pressing the fact or In concealins Leon
Ling; that on the contrary, every China
man of influence and responsibility in the
elf hot he hri oil .
diserpute on their race and they were all
united with the police in efforts to run
down the murderer
With more to gain than to lose by the
truth, Ching sin talked freely. IL not
frankly but he has not been actually i'm
plicated in the crime itself. This is in
'dicated by the fact that he is tonight still
held in the house OF detention for wit
nesses, and not in the Tombs, charged with
being an accessory in the murder.
Whatever be the whole truth concerning
the information Chung Sin Yields, it is
practically all the police have to go on.
Chu Gain. the restaurant proprietor and
adrnlrer Of the dead girl. of whom Leon
Ling was Jealous, Is out on $1,000 bail,
pumped dry; the other restaurant keeper,
Sun Leung, and his walters and cook,
above whose place the body was found
also are out on bail for siOO: and the lesser
Importance attached TO their knowledge is
measured by the small amount.
Thus the case revolves around Chung
Sin at first thought to have told so much
but whose alleged confession became far
less sensational upon further investiga-
tions
Arrived After Murder.
1.
occupied the room next to that of Leon
and that on the afternoon, June 9, the day
OF the murder. he wakened early after q
natural sleep to find Leon standing be
side him Leon was In trouble and wanted
help. Chung Sin soon understood why
when he saw the body lying across thu
bed. There blood on the mouth, anC
stained handkerchief was stuffed be
tween the lips. The features he said wer
strained and blackened, but he saw M
rope around the neck Leon explained Il
him that the girl bit her tongue and ble'
20 death
Asked II that seemed plausible to him
Chung Sin admitted that he felt terrifie
and that his first impulse was to get no
OF the house as soon as he could. Befor
he left however. Leon borrowed $500 fron
him. he said. They both belonged to tn
same secret society he explained, and h
felt bound by his oath to do that muc
for fellow member.
Then. ne said, he had hurried to the room
OF his cousin, with the intention of passin
the night, but his curiosity got the bette
OF him, and after two uneasy hours,
sneaked back to the house, climbed IN
stairs. lifted himself to where he coul
peer through the transom. and saw III
room empty save for the trunk. That wa
f.r i'm al hurried
cousin and slept there that night tn
cousin. when questioned substantiated III
story.
The next day he left for Amsterdam
N Y, to work near where he was late
arrested
Give Girl Good Name.
Those who knew Elsie sigel best beriev
that she was sincere in her mission woI
and her relations with the Chinese up
the day of her death. Mrs. Florence Too
OF the Bowery settlement for girls h'
never varied from her assertion of thi
belief.
Chu Gain who lived In terror of h
Jealous rival. Leon Ling, and had know
both the girl and her mother for years,
OF the same belief. Assistant District A
torney Ward Is inclined to the theory
Ouop Yick Nam, the interpreter. WI
thinks that the girl was lured to Leon
room by report OF his feigned Hines
and there chloroformed, after Leon hi
been angered by her coldness and her 7
tusal to see no more Of Chu Gain, b
Wealthier rival.
The chloroform, ouon believes. work
too well, and when Leon found he eou
not revive Elsie he bound her with co
and wedged the body into the trunk
support of this theory Is the pathetic a.
moving prayer written on mission lette
head which the girl left for her mother
the day she went TO her death. II seer
Impossible. IL Il argued that girl goiI