The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-24
GIRL s MURDERER
NOT YET LOCATED
New York Officials Refuse to
Give Any Information as to
Work in Sigel Case.
PLENTY OF CONFLICTING
STATEMENTS AND THEORIES
Belief General That Leon Ling
Has Fled to Some Obscure
Settlement Of Chinese.

NEW YORK, June 23.-After day
of conflicting statements. the district
attorneys Office, acting under iustruc-
tlons from Mr. Jerome. and the police
department. under orders from Commits
sioner Bingham. refused tonight to dis
close further what progress had been
made IN the search for Leon Ling, the
Chinamsn wanted for the murder of FL
sic Sigel, whose body was found in a
trunk IN room over An Eighth avenue
chop suey restaurant last Friday night
Neither would they discuss the results
Of the examination of Chung Sin. Leon
Ling s former roommate, who had been
yariously reported 10 have witnessed
The crime. 10 have aided in roping tho
trunk and finally merely TO have seen
The g1ri s body. There have been hour.
ly reports of clues from all parts of
the country, but mono brings the au-
thorjtles any nearer TO the murder.
Leading Chinese Aroused.
What progress has been made with
| Chung Sin, who underwent this after.
noon another four hours of cross-uues-
| tlonlng al the hands Of CAPTAIN Carr
and his men of the homicide bureau
and Mr.. Ward, Of the district attor-
neJ ONCE. Is due 70 the offices of
Quou Gick Mum, a Chinese merchant,
who VOLUNTEERED as an interpreter and In
whom the police have every confidence
II IS said that he told Chung Sin with
an earnestness that carried conviction
| that no Chinese society would aid him
In suppressing the facts or in conceal
ing Leon Ling; that, on the CONTRARY,
every Chinaman of influence aud re
sponsibility in the country felt that
the case was bringing djsrepute on their
race and they all were united with the
police in efforts to run down the muir
| dcrcr.
Depends on Chung Sin.
With more TO gain than 10 lose by
the truth, Chung Sin then talked free.
| ly. if not frankly. That he has not
been actually implicated in the crime.
itself, howeN er, is indicated by the fact
/ that tonight he WIS held IN the hou5e
of detention for witnesses and not in
truth Of the information yielded hv
Chung Sin, it contains the only clue
on which the police can work. as Cbu
Gain, sdmirer of the girl of whom
Leon Ling was jealous; Sun Leoupg,
proprietor of the restaurant over which
the deed was committed, and the other
Chinese arrested, are out on bail,
pumped dry
Those who know Elsie Sigel best be-
licvc she was sincere in ber mission
work and her relations with the Chi
nesc up TO the day Of her death. Mrs.
| Florence Todd of the Bowery settle
ment girls. has never varied from her
assertion Of that belief. Chu Gain, who
| lived in terror of his Jealous rival, Leon
Ling. and bad known both the girl aud
her mother for years, is of the same
| belief Assistant District Attorney
Ward is inclined to the theory of Qnou
Yick Mum. the interpreter, who thinks
that the girl was lured to Leon s room
By a report of his fcigned illness and
there chloroformed after Leon had been
angered by her coldness and her refusal
10 see no more of Chu Gain, his wealth
| icr rival.
Evidence Of Girls Virtue.
The chloroform Quon believes,
worked too well, and when Leon found
he could not revive Elsie, ho bound
her with a cord and wedged the body
into the trunk In support of this
theory is the pathetic and moving
PRAYER written on mission letterhcad
which the girl left for her mother on
tbe day she went TO her death, II
seems impossible, IL is argued, that Il
girl going on any but righteous ms
sion could have written such note.
The discovery that Leon was bred
an actor and the knowledge that all
Chinese actors are trained TO take te-
male parts. did not on second thought.
impress the police greatly with the idea
that he would so disguise himself. Chi
nesc women IN this country are uotice'
ably scarce, and the very fact that ono
had been seen travelling would excite
curiosity. 1t is much more probable,
the police believe, that their map either
took ship as a sailor or cook, or bas
worked his way south into some OF the
obscure colonies on the outskirts of New
Orleans, Baltimore or Galveston.
ofhcial Statement.
Tho district attorneys Office gave
out statement today TO some extent
changing the usual official published
reports. giving the alleged circumstau-
taI details of Chung SIN confession
in the Sigel murder case. According TO
this statement, the story told by Chung
was not that he actually saw the mur-
der committed or that be helped to
bind up The trunk after Elsie Sigel's
body had been placed in II. He SAID
ne went 10 his room about l clock
that afternoon 20 lie down, and that
Leon came in soon afterward and said
that Elsie was dead. Chung asked Leon
what had happened, and the lat
Ter replied that Elsie had "bitten her
tongue and hled to death. = Chung
said he went into the room and saw
the body. He felt of the murdered
girl s hands and found them cold; ne
then went out and when he came back
be found Leon throwing clothing ont
of the trunk, which he kept under the
bed Chung said be went out again
aud returned, and found the trunk
bound With rope IN the room and
the body of Elsie gone. He supposed
that Leon had placed the body IN the
trunk.
Denies Published Statement,