Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-06-19

YOUNG won.
DEEP MYSTEk,
Victim Thought to Be Grand
daughter of General SigeI,
Famous Hero.
CHlNAMEN BELIEVED
TO BE GUILTY ONES
Body Found in Trunk in
Room Over Chinese Rest
aurant in New York.

New York, June 19-Another battling
trunk murder mystery for the New
York police is presented by the finding
Of the body of Miss Elsie C. Sigel,
granddaughter of General Franz Sigel
Of civil war fame, in trunk in a room
above a Chinese restaurant at 1872
Eighth avenue, where she was cruelty
put to death
Miss SigeI who was a brunette,
twenty-five years old, modest and re
fined looking and more than ordinarily
good looking, was a well known mis-
sionary worker in Chinatown. She
was strangled to death with a sash
cord which the murderer or murderers
extended to her knees. They then tied
the head tightly to the knees and
placed the body in the trunk.
Two chinamen Missing.
Two Cinnamon who disappeared
from the restaurant suddenly about
the time the woman met her death are
being sought by the police. They are
Leong Lee Lin. alias William j. Leon,
former Sunday school pupil of Miss
sigel's, and Chung Sin, waiter in the
restaurant
Letters signed elsie" We're found in
the room Of the missing men. A silver
spangled bracelet and a gold locket
and chain bearing the initials ID. G.
s." were found in the dresser Of the
room Around the dead girls neck was
a gold plated clasp pin bearing the
letters ''E. G. s."
In second trunk containing effects
of Leong Lee Lin were found tracts
and Testament given to him by Miss
Sigel, who was responsible for Leongs
interest In Christianity. He had met
her at a gospel mission two years ago
and made no secret among his COM
panions of his infatuation for her.
Met at Christian Mission.
Coroner Hamburger searched the
ChInaman's rooms and found letter
to Leong from Henry g. Bunnell.
Wall street broker, living at the Hotel
Bristol.
Mr.. Bunnell told the police t1a. he
met Lin in a Chinese restaurant i'm
Sixth avenue, near Twenty-eighth
street.
Lin told me-" he added, that he
knew Miss Sigel, who was mission
airy In Chinatown He etold me she was
a very fine young woman deeply inter
ested in converting Cinnamon. He said
that he had gone over with her TO Chi,
natown and had become her mission
pupil l myself have been interested
In missionary work, and In the course
Of this | learned to know him fairly
we'll"
Devoted to Gospel Work.
Miss Sigel was the daughter of Paul
Sigel, an inspector in the health de-
partment. Her mother is a missionary
worker well known for years in the
Chinese quarter, and Elsie was much
interested in gospel work in China
town.
Miss Sigel had been away from home
since a week ago Thursday, and her
family had reported her absence to the
police.
General Franz Slgel, who fought IN
the civil war and was a brigadier gen
eral undsr Fremont, died in this city
on Aug %, 1902.
chinaman May Be Killed Too.
Won Lung, who had room I'm the
house where the girl was fouiA slain,
is missing. The police found letter
for him in the room in which the.
trunk reposed warning him that If he
didn't stop paying attention to Elsie
Siger he would meet terrible fate.
The theory Of the police is that he also
has been murdered.