Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-23
CHINAMAN TELLS
HOW GIRL DIED
Chung Sin Says He Saw Leon Ling
with Body Shortly After Murder
Was Done.
DIDN'T WITNESS ACTUAL DEED
CHASTITY Account of Crit z Unveiled
TO Mr.. Jerom
ELSIE VISITED ROOM EoN
Slayer Declared She Bin :, 9r
Tongue and Bled to Death. ~
MYSTERY OF DEATH IS soLv-1
victim DruRged with ChIOrOform and
CHASTITY Account of Crit z Unveiled
to Mr.. JerOm
ELSIE VISITED ROOM |
Slayer Declared She Bin :,
Tongue and Bled to Death. =
MYSTERY OF DEATH IS soLv--4
Victim Drurged with ChIOrOform and
Then ChoISed TO Death-Chung
Sin Held ns Material witness
Under Heavy Bail.

NEW YORK. June 22.-Baited and in
tlmidated by detectives threatened with
prosecution. and confused with rapid fire
questions, Chung sin, one time room mate
OF Leon Ling told this afternoon Of Elsie
Sigel's murder.
Under the terrific pressure of the third
degree" the little Chinaman admitted that
he had seen the body in Leon Ling's room.
that he had touched It while It was still
warm. that he had smeled drugs, and
had watched Leon Ling's preparations for
placing the body In the trunk where 1t was
found horribly decOmposed last Friday
night
Chung Sin. in fact. II what was learned
at the criminal courts building is cor
rect described almost everything con-
cerning the murder of Major General Franz
Sigels granddaughter, except the actual
commission of the crime. He denied COM
pcty in it, and protested stoutly that he
was ignorant of the whereabouts Of Ling
the supposed murderer. After the inquisi-
ton he was taken before Coroner Har-
burger and held in $4,000 bail in the house
OF detention TO await the inquest.
ChunE's Spirit IL Broken.
Chung sin is 35 years old, and native
of Canton. He was arrested yesterday
morning at West Galway n Y, and was
brought to New York today Immediately
after his arrest and during the trip TO
this city. he was piled with questions, bull
lied persuaded and entangled in mass
of questions. 1t was not until late today
however that his spirit was sufficiently
broken or sufficient inducements were
offered, as the case may be, for him to
cast aside his air Of stoliGness, and tell
of the death of the young missionary.
Then. smoking cigarette after cigarette
TO culet his nerves, the Chnaman told
brokenlv, but with brutal bluntness, of the
pirl's death lie was surrounded at the
time an the office Of Assistant District At
torpsy Ward by detectives from police
headauartcrs. who had put him through
gIillnG
Mr.. Ward and District Attorney Jerome
were also present. and from what can be
learned It was Mr.. Jerome himself VINO
finally drew the story from Ching Sin
ups. lie was told that Leon Ling had been
captured and had lain the blame upon him
Chung Sin's) shoulders. This together with
the persistent hammering at the prisoner
brought the confession. 1t was made partly
In English and partly in Chinese, for there
WAS an Interpreter present and was taken
down by stenographers
No statement of the gist Of his remarks
was made public, but the more salient
facts OF the confession soon became known
about the building.
ChIDrofor,ned and Then ChOked.
From the mans stoy is is apparent that
Elsie Sigel first was drugged with chloro-
form and then cho&ed to death. She was
killed apparently on the night of June
., although Chung Sin appeared little
mixed In his dates. But he says that early
In the morning of June 10 he heard a
strange noise in Icons room adjoining his
and looking over the transom, saw the
girr lying on the bed with bloody towel
over her mouth. He passed through the
room, he said. to go out to wash his
hands and as he did so felt of the body,
which was still warm.
Afterward he went down TO the chop
suev restaurant below, and then returned
to the room. Leon. in the meantime, had
coNCrtd the body with blanket up to
the ohln. and had pulled a trunk to the
middle uf the floor. The trunk. Leon was
calmly emptying preparatory to placing
the body therein. The rope with which the
body was bound was lying on the floor at
the time according 10 Chung Sin Once
again he went down stairs, said Chung Sin
where he remained until Leon called him
not yisitie, having been bound with the
rope and placed in the trunk.
Denies Any Participation.
At this point Of the story, the Chinaman
was asked savagely II he had not assisted
in putting the body In the trunk, Chung
Sin started perceptibly, but said that he
had no hand in Il.
Il dodnt see her no more" said Chung
Sin. "and when l asked Leon how she
died. he said she had bitten her tongue
and biead to death"
Leon told him. Chung Sin added, that
he was Eoing TO send the trunk to Jersey
City, thence TO Europe, AS a matter 81
fact 1t lay untouched in the stuffy little
room untI sun Leung. proprietor Of the
restaurant below, noticed the odor about
the building and summoned the police.
Untn Chun Sins complete account Is
made public IL will not be explained why
he saw the dead girl and the preparations
for the removal Of the body with such ap-
parent unconcern at the time Also. de-
spite repeated interrogations, he declined
TO say just what happened in the room
when the girl was murdered. He admitted
having heard scuffle in the room during
the night and told OF Elsie having arrived
on thu previous afternoon, the day when
she disappeared from home.
Girl went to Room.
Did Leon take her there or did she &c
OF her own aecord?" he was asked
She went there alone" he replied.
Was she in love with Leon. or Leon In
love with herY' was another question.
At this Chun Sin relapsed into silence
and then only smiled and shook his head
lie indicated. however that the girl had
sought out the Chfnaman.
Taking up his own case. Chung Sin OK
planned his sudden disappearance after the
murder by saying that he had been en-
plOyed by a well-to-do New Yorker, a
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