Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-22
N. Assnriated Press1

{By Associated Press)
NEW YORK. June 21.-After a bit OF
noliee furry today, an hour OF wv -
unverifed reports and telepnOllihs VI
tween cities, the murder or Elsie o!sel
resolved itself INTO an uii90i'
again tonight. mica ,
Sbnn sin, who formerly occupied a
,ooy, adjoining that where the glll
hodv was found, is held by the poIice
at the upstate village OF ANS o@tlIIl @
N. Y. but what has been learned tIoih
him has cleared up the case ou1 o..,.ast,d iletigi
At Schenectady the Chinese affesteu
TODAY. at first thought to be Leon Ling
or William l.. Leon, who is sought ds
the girls murderer, pretty well estdo-
lished that he is an unoHendlhg Ce-
lestial who formerly worked IN New
York restaurant and whose drreSI "a
brought about merely through sulA-
ing resem blance to Leon Ling.
Tells Nothing of Value
The disappearance of Chun Sin about
the time the murder was commltteo
made the police eager for ms aPPIe,
bansion. which was considered second
in Importance to that of Leon, but the
interview with him at Amsterdam
seems to have brought out nothing or
value.
eiated with Leon, and, while acqualhteu
with Elsie Sigel, knows nothing OF 'ne
murder.
While the authorities upstate were
nuttting two Chinese through an IN
duisition Sun Leong, keeper OF the res
taurant above which the BODY OIL lhS
Girl was found, was being questioned
al police headquarters.
Sun Leong disappeared on the hlghC
the body was found. but quietly sur
,.o,darad him self early TODAY.
He is being detained as a material
witness but his voluntary surrender IS
taken to mean that he is not impl-
Gated in the crime. -
In the midst of all the police activi-
tv the body of Elsie Sigel was quietly
buried in Woodlawn cemetery.
Publicity Avoided
As the father had announced last
night that he wished to avoid any
more publicity, the coffin containing
the mutilated form was taken directly
from the morgue to the burying ground
in plain undertaking wagon.
The ceremony at the grave was
strictly private and was attended only
by her father, two brothers-Reginald
and Theodore-and by her uncle, Franz
Sigel.
Although the mission in Chinatown
where Elsie Sigel formerly taught has
have been converted to Christianity
was held in a Doyer street mission this
afternoon to discuss plans for raising
a fund to be offered as a reward for
the capture of Elsie's slayer. A COM
mittee will go through Chinatown, So
llciting subscriptions.
Funay Mow's Statement
Rev. Fungy Nov. who acted as
chairman, said Leon Ling had never
been connected with the mission in any
way and as far as he knew had never
attended any school in Chinatown.
Miss Sigel, he said, had taught Leon.
Theories as to the motive for the
murder all center on the jealousy of
Leon Ling. That he killed her be-
cause of her apparent friendship for
Chu Gain, who is still detained as
material witness, is the predominating
belief.
In support of this. Mrs. Florence
Todd, one Of the most prominent wo-
men workers in Chinatown, who knew
Elsie Sigel and her mother intimately
said this afternoon:
Il know very we'll Chu Gain. who is
under arrest. He is one of the few
Chinese whom I would trust with my
life. Mrs. Sigel and Elsie also knew
him for many years. They We're in
troduced to him through an uncle of
his.
"I believe Elsie was in love with Chu
Gain and would have married him,
but that he would not marry her"
Here Mrs. Todd went into the most
significant part Of her statement--that
bearing on Leon Ling. She said:
Mrs. Todds Opinion
within the last year, despite her
love for Chu Gain, Elsie became ap-
parently infatuated with Leon Ling.
But 1 think it was only a Irritation.
He, L know, asked her to marry
him, but she refused him. In fact she
told me she refused him. Her mother
knew all about it."
Despite her statement Mrs. Todd
said she was not inclined to believe
that Leon committed the murder and
she went on to relate that she had had
dream that Elsie Sigel had commit
ted suicide
Chu Gain, she said. came to her on
the morning of June IA, FIVE days after
the murder is supposed TO have been
committed, and told her that he, too,
had had dream. In this dream Chu
Gain, according to Mrs. Todd, had
seen the form of the girl appear before
him crying, "Chu save me-"
This seemed to worry the Chinese
greatly because Elsie was missing at
the time.
Called at House
The fact that Leon Ling called a the
Sigel home Tuesday, June 8, the day
before Miss Sigel's disappearance, and
threatened to kill Chu Gain unless Elsie
stopped going with him was made
known today by Paul Sigel, the father
of the murdered girl.
Mr.. Sigel said also he believed Elsie
was induced TO visit Icons room under
the representation that Leon was i'll:
that she was killed on the day she left
her home and that she did not go to
Washington. Mr.. Sigel said Leon was
under the influence Of liquor when he
called.
In the love letters OF Elsie Sigel to