Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-01
SIN IS DEEP IN MIRE|
Friend Of Leon Ling May Himself
Face Murder Charge.
IDENTIFIED BY ExPREssMAN
Said 20 Have Been Seen by Driver
ON Floor of House the Day
Elsie siseI Was
Killed.

NEW YORK. June sO.-The complacency
Of Chung Sin. once the roommate of Leon
Ling. who is wanted for the murder Of
Elsie Sigel, on June 8, went all to pieces
this afternoon, when Arthur Logan, an
expressman, walked into the cell where
Chung Sin is held as more than a material
witness, and ~brusquely shouted, "Hullo."
Logan is the man who carried the trunk
containing the body Of the girl dow stairs
from Icons room on the day OF the
murder. He has told the police that Chung
Sin is one Of the men he saw on the top
floor Of the house. Chung, on the contrary,
has sworn by all his ancestors that he
never saw the trunk packed or moved.
You are the man." Logan said in Chung
Sins presence today, "who told me to take
the trunk down stairs carefully. There
was another slim fellow with you In the
room-the same that came over to the
office half an hour before to give me the
order to call for the trunk"
Chinuman IL AEitated.
"All mistake" protested Chung, never
see you before"
The Chinaman's voice broke, and he
shook as IL in fear as Logan was led out
still positive in his Identification.
Chung was not kept waiting long before
he had another visitor-this time Martin
Luria, the chauffeur, who drove a China
man and a trunk from the Harlem laundry
TO a chop suey restaurant in Newark, on
the morning Of June 10. The police had a
theory that Chung Sin might have been
the fare and not Leon Ling. But Luria
could not identify Chung Sin, and still be-
lieves that it was Leon he had in his taxi
cab.
A letter from Chung Sin, written since
his arrest to the Society of the -Four
Brothers, was today translated for the dis
trict attorneys office. 1t protests that
the murder was done by one man, and that
therefore only the murderer should be held,
denounces the authorities and implores the
aid of all members in freeing him.
Police Distrust Cinnamon.
The police believe more and more hat
little reliance can be placed in any of the
various rewards and offers of cooperation
promised by the clans Of Chinatown, and
accordingly District Attorney Jerome today
wrote John Endicott Gardner, professor
of oriental languages and literature in he
University of the Pacific at San jose,
Cal, requesting his cooperation in the
case. as a trustworthy interpreter.
With no outside clues to bring the DO
lice nearer to Leon Ling, they are work
ing on the theory that a bird In the hand
is worth two in the bush. In other words,
by bringing home to Chung Sin that each
contradiction in his testimony only mlres
him the deeper, 1t is hoped that he may
eventually tell the full truth. The great
est hope Of getting Leon is that his pa
will weaken under pressure.
The following of the zigzag trail of the
trunk containing the body of Elsie SigeI
on the day following her murder has re.
suited in the implication of several China
men, all of whom, while not actually &C
cused of having had a hand in the killing
of the young woman, are suspected OF nav
ing, knowledge of the crime and OF tn,
efforts Of Leon Ling to dispose, of tbs
body. 3D.
Only one of the seven, Chung Sin, Ia ir
custody. OF the others, Wah Lee, thu
laundryman, to whose place in One Hun
bred and Twenty-sixth street the trunl
was first taken. has disappeared, anC
Lee Sing, the restaurant keeper in Newark
N. j., is under surveillance. The fouI
Cinnamon who were in the room adjoin
ing that in which the trunk stood when tn,
expressman called to remove It TO Wal
Lees laundry, have not been identified.