Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-01
FORGE LINK IN
SIGEL MYSTERY
EXPRESSMAN IDENTIFIES AL
LEGGED ACCOMPLISH
DECLARES CHUNG SIN WAS AT
SCENE OF CRIME
Roommate Of Chinese Who Killed
White Girl in New York
TrembIes at Sight
of Accuser

NEW YORK, June 30,-The COM
placency of Chung Sin, once the room
mate of Leon Ling, who is wanted tor
the murder of Elsie Sigel on June -
went all to pieces this afternoon when
Arthur Logan, an expressman, walked
into the cell where Chung Sin Is held
and shouted:
"Hullo."
Logan is the man who carried the
trunk containing the girls body down
stairs from Leon Lings 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 to
Chung sin today, "who told me to take
the trunk downstairs carefully. There
was another slim fellow with you IN
the room. the same fellow that came
over to the office half an hour before
to give me the order to call for the
trunk" Gu,
IAN mistake protested Chuhs'
never saw you before
The Chinaman's voice broke and he
shook as if in fear as Logan was led
out. still positive in his identification.
Clans Not trusted
The police believe little reliance can
he placed in the offers of cooperation
promised by the clans of Chinatown
Accordingly District Attorney Jerome
today wrote John Endicott Gardner OF
the University of the Paclhc at gan
lose. cal. requesting his cooperation
in the case as a trustworthy inter-
Tbe following of the zigzag trail of
the trunk containing the body of Elsie
Sieel on the day following her muir
der has resulted in the implication OF
seven Chinese, all of whom, whlle not
actually accused of having a hand IN
fine killing of the young woman, are
s1snected of having knowledge of the
crime and of the efforts of Leon Ling
to dispose of the body.
ONLY one of the seVen-Chung Sln-ls
in custody. OF the others, wan Lee
the laundryman to whose place III ono
Hundred and Twenty-sixth street the
trunk was first taken, has disappeared,
and Lee Sing, the restaurant keeper IN
Newark. n. j., is under surveillance.
The four Chinese who were in the
room adjoining that in which the trunk
stood when the eXpressman called to
remove il to Wah Lees laundry have
not been identified.
object of Slayer
The object of Leon Ling in first taxi
ing the body of Elsie Sigel in a trunk
to the laundry of Yung wan In Har-
lem. a few hours after she had been
choked to death, was to bury 1t under
the floor of the cellar there.
Detectives have just discovered that
the wooden floor was torn UP, but the
body was not buried there, because I'M
der the floor is bed of solid rock.
on finding this obstacle the police
believe that Ling then decided to hur-
riedly take the body in taXicab TO
Newark and there dispose of it.
What obstacle he met there Whlch
caused him to make the long return
trip to the room in Eighth avenue
where the girl was killed is yet to be
determined.
Several members of Young Wah's
household have informed the police
that Leon Ling took the body in the
trunk to the basement of the Harlem
laundry and there they heard him rip
mn the boards in the floor 1t was sub
segment to this that he employed the
taxicab and started for Newark.