The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-30
SEVEN CHINAMEN SUPPOSED
TO BE IMPLICATED in
SIGEL MURDER
Only Chung Sn Under Arrest arc Orc Che Celestial Suspected Has
Left Town-John Endcott Professor of Chinese Language in
University Of Pacific Asked to Aid Authorities WhoBeiev
L2on's Chum Has Ticked Them at Every Point

New York, June 3O.-A letter was
sent by District Attorney Jerome to-
day to Prof John Endicott Gardner,
professor of Chinese language and IT.
eratuTe in the University of the Pa
clflc, San Francisco, asking him II his
engagements and occupation would
permit him to come to New York TO
assist the district attorneys office I'm
the Sigel case. The following of the
zig-2ag trail of the trunk containing
the body OF Elsie Sigel on the day fol-
lowing her murder has resulted in the
implication of seven Cinnamon. all Of
whom. while not actually accused of
having had a hand In the killing of
the young woman, are suspected of
having knowledge of the crime. and
of the efforts of Leon Ling to dispose
of the body.
Only one of the seven, Chung Sin.
is in custody. OF the others, Wah
Lee, the laundrymen to whose place In
126th street the trunk was first taken.
has disappeared. and Lee Sing, the
restaurant keeper in Newark, y. j., is
under surveillance. The four China
men who were In the room adjoining
that in which the trunk stood when
the eXpressman called to remove it
to Wah Lees laundry, have not been
identified Logan. the expressman.
will be taken TO the house OF detention
TO see If he can identify Chung Sin.
Icons roommate as one Of the quar-
tette. The police and district attor-
ney are now satisfied that Chung Sin
has tricled them almost at every
point and that what he has concealed
is vastly more important than what he
has divulged.
New York, June 29.-Leon Ling, the
police declared tonight, had accom-
plices in the murder Of Elsie Sigel. 1t
was also established although tele-
gram signed with Leon Ling's- name
and in his writing was sent from
Washington he could not have been
there on the date on which the mes
sage was sent. The police further
more have accounted in detail for the
movements of the girls body as it
was moved hither and thither after
the crime, up to the moment Of its
discovery.
The facts as to the movement Of the
boy in New York. now added to the
details previously unearthed concern
ing the trip to Newark, came out
through Arthur Logan, an cXpressman
in the employ Of the Constitution EX-
press company. Logan said that at
1890 D. m, June 9, the supposed day
of the murder, lean, light colored
Chnaman, agreeing perfectly with the
description of Leon Ling, called at his
ofTs fn1 hin, that ho ted 4
trunk carted from the top floor Of 7S2
Eighth avenue to the address of a
Chinese laundry which his book entry
shows as Wah Kee. $40 West One
Hundred and Twenty-siXth street
When Logan entered the Eighth av-
enue house shortly afterward he found
Leon Ling waiting for him at the top
of the fourth fight of stairs. he says.
The door to mis- room stood open but
ii was so dark that the place looked
like cave He did not see the trunk
until he stumbled upon it. but he no"
ticed that the door to the adjoining
room was ajar and that four China
men who wore queues were moving
about. This is the door that Chung
Sin. Leon Ling's intimate who was
detained as witness. has sworn was
closed.
Logan lifted the trunk with the help
Of his assistant and, though he is a
strong man, found 1t heavy.
He found Wah Kee waiting for him
at the Harlem address.
"Tlunk? Tlunk?' said Wah. "All
light; so cents"
Fifty cents had been the charge
agreed on with Leon Ling Wah kee
knew of it in advance. so the express
man thinks, and his views are shared
by the police. There was no hesitancy
about accepting the trunk. Wah kee
ordered 1t carried through the laun-
dry and kitchen TO the sleeping room
in the rear, where Logan left 1T.
Nearly eight hours later a well
dressed Japanese, as the starter of the
New York TaXicab company then
thought him to be. called at the COM
pnnys branch office at the corner of
One Hundred and Twenty-frst and
Eighth avenues and asked how much
It would cost nim for q taXicab to
Newark. He was told S12 and in
structed the driver to call at Wah
KEGS laundry for somebody The
driver found that the heavier part of
his fare was stoutly corded trunk
Leon Ling, for so Driver Luria has
subsequently identified him, was pac-
ing the street nervously while the
trunk was being lifted to the front
seat, and insisted that 1t be tightly
lashed lest IL fall and break open The
trunk secured. he stepped into the tax
icab and pulled all the shades.
Luria had been told to drive to the
restaurant at 81 Market street, New
ark and when he arrived there at 2
o'clock in the morning of June 10. Ii
Sing, the proprietor, met him at the
door aud helped him carry the trunk
to rear room He was paid and
drove back TO New York.
Lurias narrative coincides with the
testimony Of James Halsted. New
ark cabman, who on the afternoon of
the same day took the body and Leon
Ling back to the Eighth avenue room.
where II stayed until the police found
it. Leon Ling vanished in the mean
time.
Icons hosts all showed suspicious
forcknowlcdse of his coming. Chung
Sin, when he swore the trunk was In