Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-19
TOday's Telegraphic News
New Works. Murder Mystery.

ANCN AOlh nuAbSt wy ohSA
New York, June 19.-Among the
hundreds OF Lore letters in the room
where the body Of Elsie Sgel, settlement
worker, and gra lddsughter Of the late
General Franz Sigel, was found TANNED
in q steamer lruok. tae police today
found letters written by the girl to the
converted OhiDamsD, Leon Ling, which,
they claim, establish a motive for the
killing Of the girl. The letters extend
over a period of two years, and the LIST,
written from the bone of her parents,
Mr.. snd Mrs. Paul Sigel, No. 2O9 Wads'
worth s'ree, reads.
"You seem to be growing cold to me-.
Just think of the sacrifice have made
for you-my family, my friends. For
Gods sake, don't forsske me now"
The leaving behind Of these letters
has convinced the police that Leon Ling
left the place in great haste A general
alarm for him aud Chung Sin, another
christianized Ohinaman, who with Ling
has been missing from the house since
last Sunday, was sent out today. Foreign
ports have been specially notified to
look for the pair.
The police learned todsy that on the
day before Elsie Slgel disappeared, Leon
had called at her home and had been re-
fused permission to see the girl By her
father, who threw the Ohinamau from
the house. This incident taken in con.
junction with the relations of the Ori.
entail and bis teacher for the two years
they had been acquainted, leads the po-
lice TO believe that the girl wss lured to
the room OF the Ohinsman; that the real
ization of the crisis In their romance led
to q quarrel aud that the girl was slran-
gled to death in a fit CT jealousy.
Detectives at work on the case, a.
founded by the revelations in the letters
of white women willing to foregO race
and reputation for this Chinese LothariO
declared that Leon used the "missionsIJ
game" as his countrymen express IT,
to CLOAK his real occupation, which,
they cay, WAS the seduction Of whit'
women.
They declare that while young white
women were teaching this converted
Cinnamon, bis prayers, he occupied BIZ
time in insidoous love making.
The coroner in the course Of his in
vestigatioD today discovered that tn:
body OF tie girl as it WAS packed in tbs
trunk had been thoroughly covered with
some chemical, probably bichloride o.
lime, which hsd eaten away the flesh ID
places. This Wa3 the reason given fol-
The difficulty exp rienced In immediate
identifying thegirI.
DIR. OHanlOn, who performed tht
autopsy reported this afternoon tC
Coroner AcriteIli that he had found 6
traces OF poison in the internal organs o.
the body and the organ were scaled a
al once and sent to Prof. j. A Fergu
son, OF Columbia Univer0ity. 10 order to
ascestaiu whether the poison had been
introduced into the body or was the re-
suit of decay.
The rain Was mass of liquid putre.
faction and all the internal organs in
the same shape, according to the doctors
eport. Death was due TO "ssphyxia"
said tho doctor, probably caused by
some one holding the girl by the throat
until she dropped dead. The condition
OF the body indicated that the girl had
been dead at least week, said the
doctor, and probably ten days. II
would have been impossible for anyone
10 the next room not to have detected
the odor of decsyed flesh. Acting on
this report, the police are holding the
restaurant keeper for having guilty
knowledge of the crime.