The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-06-24
DEAD GIRLS GOOO NAME
WARMLY DEFENDED
Friends SiOui|y Maintain That
Relations With ChInanlan
Were Innocent

itly Associated preasl
San Francisco, June 2i+lt Is rum.
ofea that Leon Ilng was captured
un the steamer MandhNrla anout "a
sull Tor tha Orient
Neg York June 2t.-Tho police
ave stu wiiAont o cline al 10 the
whereabouts or the Chinese alayer o.
Elsie Slsel. The reported arreat
near iphnstnwn. Pa yeAlerdny piiN'
ed TO be Wlthont Foundations
Importance Of sln'e story.
Whatever BE- the whole truth cam
cerulnH the Information Chung Sin
yields, Il ls practically All The police
have "a 80 On. Chu Gain, the reslall
rant proprietor and admlreF Ol the
dead glrl Of whom Leon Lima waf
Jealous, Is oat nn sl,00O bail pumped
dry; the other festaagant Keeper,
sun Leung. and his walters and
cook, above whose place Che body
was found also are out pn bali iur
7fuVi anu FIiu iranuT IfllTlHf fflipN NJ
lauled 10 their knowledge IS mauh
ured by lha small amount
Thus tha ease reYolpea HFoVna
Chung SIN.
To all question: he rsliaFasaa that
ha occupied the room nexl4a that Of
Leon, and that on lgae afternoon Of
June 81 the day 81 the murder be-
aeakened early after natural sleep,
70 find Leon standing beside Wfm
Leon was in trouble aud wanted
help, Chung SIN soon understood
why. when re aaw tho hudf lYing
ACROSS the bed. There was blood ON
The mouth ana 4 stained handker
chief was stuffed between The lips
THE features, be said, were strained
md baokened. but he mW au rope
around the neck Leon explained io
hlm thnt the girl hll her tongue and
bled TO dealh
Asked il that seemed mNne.sip 40
him Chung Sin admitted lhaE be- irll
terrified and THAI hla first impulse
WINS % Vet uut of the house S. soon
Is he could
Leon aorfuW1 Money.
Before be left. however. Leon hor.
fowfd e20o from him. Ne said They
both belonged % the eame secret So
aiety be explained. and he felt bound
bg hls oalh To 10 lllai mueh for a
fellow menber Then be had huf
rled % lhe rooms Of his cousin with
The intention of paselnK the night,
but his curiosity got The heltor 81
4lm, aud after two uneasy hnufs. he
aneaked baek Il the hnuae climbed
the alaira. lifted himself ~ whore he
could peer through llle tiHhe0m, and
saw the room empty. save cot The
trunk. That vas enough for aIm. Ile
hurried back 10 his cousins and slept
there that nlsls The cousin. when
questioned auhsIantated ilie story
The next day be left fUr Ainstpf.
DAM n. ". 10 work near where he
vas later arrested
Elsie Believed Sincere.
THOSE who know elsie Eleel. best
believe that she was sincere III her
mission work and her feiailona With
the Chinese ~ 10 The day 0f her
ieath Mrs Florence Todd Of the
noNefy settlement for girls. has
never varled from her assertion OF
that belief Chm Gain, who lived IN
mortal terror Of hla Jealous rival,
Leon Ling. and had known both fhe
girl and he. mother for years. h 81
The sume heIief
Assistant District Attorney Wnrd
IS inclined to the ihegr9 81 Quon
Yick Nam, the interpreter, who thinks
tile glfl was Iurea to teune room by
a false report Of his felgned illness
and there ehleroformed utter Leon
had been anaefed by her e0ldnc8t
and her refusal to soc NJ more ol
Gnu Gain. hls Nealthler rivpl.
THE ch0F0form. QuonAl believes
worked tu0 wes.. and Wien Leon
found he could not revive Elsie, ht
bound her with cord and Wedeec
| the body Into the trunk. IN support
* this theory .herf la the pathetic
/ and moYlHE prayer written On 4 fnlg
sion lottcnhead which lhe HlfI ioll iOl
| her u0ther On ane day she went Il
| her deaih i aeem6 lmp0aHlble Z
| WIS argued That xiii going 0n ans
hut a righteous mission could have
written andh note
leon Ling Al Actor
| Captain Carey iaid another WISH
| II ne room whefe the body lay and
found athes II the stove shifh maj
! zfcouni iof he salfl and unis, an
- missing Handkerchief Nkinl
! fhnns ta5k Y sAw potNNeu illo ylfl
/ Eeelh