The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-23
CHUNG SIN IS GIVEN
THE THIRD DEGREE


in Leon Ling's room; that he toched
it while it was still warm; that he
had smelled drugs and had watched
Leon Ling's preparations for placing
the body in the trunk, where it was
found, horribly decomposed, last Fri
day night. Chung Sin, in fact, II
what was learned at the Criminal
Courts building is correct, described
almost everything concerning the
murder of Major General Sigefs
granddaughter, except the actual
committal of the crime. He denied
any implication in it and protested
stoutly that he was ignorant of the
whereabouts OF Ling, the supposed
murderer. After the inquisition he
was taken before Coroner Hamburger
and held in $10,000 bail in the House
Of detention, to await the inquest.
Chung Sin is 80 years old and
native of Canton. He was arrested
yesterday morning at West Galway,
y. Y, a small hamlet near Amster-
dam and was brought to New YORK
Immediately after his arrest and all
during the trip by train to this city
he was piled with questions, bullied,
persuaded and entangled in mass OF
significant questions.
1t was not until late yesterday, how
ever that his spirit was sufficiently
broken or sufficient inducements were
offered, as this may be, for him to
cast aside his air of stolidity and tell
of the death of the young missionary.
Then, smoking cigarette after cigarette
to quiet his nerves, the Chinaman told
brokenly. but with brutal bluntness,
of the girls death. He was surround
ed at the time in the office of Assist
ant Attorney Ward by detectives from
police headquarters, who had previous
ly put him through grililng.
From the mans story it is apparent
that Elsie Sigel first was drugged
with chloroform and then choked to
death. She was killed apparently on
the night of April 8, although Chung
Sin appeared a little mixed in his
dates. But he says that early in the
morning of June 10 he heard strange
noise in Icons room adjoining his,
and looking over the transom saw the
girl lying on the bed with a bloody
towel over her mouth. He passed
through the room, he said, to go out
to wash his hands, and as he did so
felt of the body, which was still
warm. After he went down to the
chop suey restaurant below he re-
turned to the room. Leon, in the
meantime had covered the body with
blanket up to the chin, and had
pulled a trunk to the middle of the
floor. The trunk, Leon was calmly
emptying preparatory to placing the
body therein. The rope with which
LhS DOuy was DOulu was ~ llIS Oll INC
floor at the time, according to Chung
Sin. Once again he went downstairs
said Chung Sin, where he remained
until Leon called him. When he en-
tered the room the body was not visi-
Bile, having been bound with the rope
and placed in the trunk. At this
point of the story the Chinaman was
asked savagely if he had not assisted
in putting the body in the trunk.
Chung Sin started percepitibly, but
said he had no hand in it.
" l didn't see her no MORE" said
Chung Sin, "and when l asked Leon
how she died he said she had bitten
her tongue and bled to death"
Leon told him, Chung Sin added,
that he was going to send the trunk
to Jersey City, thence to Europe. AS
matter of fact, it lay untouched in
the stuffy little room until Sun Leung,
proprietor of the restaurant below,
noticed the odor about the building
and summoned the police. Until
Chung Sins complete account is made
public it will not be explained why
he saw the dead girl and the prepare.
tions for the removal of the body