The Washington herald., 1909-06-23

New York, June Chung
Sin, the Chinese cook, confessed
this afternoon that his friend
Leung Lin, the good boy Of the
missions, murdered Elsie Sigel in
the forenoon Of Wednesday, June
9, and that he helped Leung rope
the trunk into which the girls body |
had been crowded.
Not for anything would the
round-faced Chinaman admit that
he helped Leung strangle Elsie. He
Snarled like a teased cat when Po-
lice Capt Carey shook a fist in his
face and charged him with twist
ing the cord around her neck. All /
that he knew, he repeated over and
over again, was what he saw as he
peered fearfully through hole in
the door between his room and
Leungs, and what Leung told him
after the girls body had been got
Dut Of sight.
He was ready enough to fasten
the murder on his friend, but at
the slightest iutiination that he gave
Leung a hand in the business of
killing the girl, Chung squeaked
with rage, frequently popping out
of the chair and shutting back and
forth in Assistant District Attorney
Wards Office. He described how
the girl lay in Leung's bed, her
face and mouth wet with blood.
Leung by her side, and he grinned
as he told il
Keeps His CompOsure.
He pictured Leung stripping the clothes
OF Elsie's body, and he lighted a cigar
ette while he talked He made them un-
derstand how Elsie looked as she lay
dead IN Leung's bed, her body covered
with a sheet TO the chin. only her bare
feet showing; and he ratified It of with
out a shake or a shiver. but he flashed
anger when Assistant District Attorney
Ward and Capt Carey tried 70 break
him down with the constant question:
you did tie the rope around Elsies
meek. didn't your
Hour after hour they pounded with that
question. turning It and twisting Il, but
the Chinaman squirmed free every time.
He only partly admitted that he saw the
short-haired mission CRATER strangle FL
sic. He would not own 70 having seen
the body after he entered the room and
stood with Leung. He denied stubbornly
that he had laid a finger on Elsie alive
or dead. How could he know. asked
Chung, whether the body was cold or
warm when he slipped into the room at
Leung's frightened canr
Calls on Chinese Gods.
He shouted IN English, and he forget
his mission teachings so completely as TO
call on his Chinese gods to witness that
he didn't see Elsies body put into the
trunk. though he knew II was there. He
was Leungs good friend and helped him
in trouble; that he would not obey Leung
when the friend of the sigels ordered him
10 help hide the body. That he assisted
Leung wind cords around the trunk. he
admitted, because. he said. he had skin
in making tight knots, but that was all
he did that was bad. He hoped that his
ancestors would curse him forever If he
was not speaking with whole tongue.
Old Quan Wick Nam. the wizened in
terpreter. standing a little 10 one side IN
8 dark corner Of Wards Office. let the
ghost OF 2 smile flicker across his leather
face. There is no dodgier old bird among
pn the Chinese in New York than Quan
Wick Nam.
II has been long time since the Grim
inal Courts building. in or out OF the trial
rooms. has supplied more dramatic
scene than Chung Sins examination. The
little Chinaman, his eyes bloodshot from
exhaustion and lost sleep was planted
in big chair, while big Carey, captain
OF detectives, and Assistant District At
torney Theodore H. Ward stood in front
OF him driving their questions home.
Hear Squeak OF Chung.
While that was going on the whole
third floor OF the Criminal Courts was as
still Is a village street on Sunday. You
could hear the roar OF Carey's voice as
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