The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-21
CLAIMS SIEGEL
 GIRLS BODY Father Admits The Iden- tification. ESCAPES PoTTER'S FIELD Mother of Victim Now in a Sani-
 tarium. Aa Effort Is New Being Made to De- termiae the Manner ia which :.
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New York. June so--Leon Ling. with his string of English Chinese aliases be found. but the mutiiated body of the New York girl. left in a trunk in his room here. will not be buried In the potters' field. Paul SiegeI the father, claimed and positively identified the body at the morgue tonight. admitting for the first time that the victim was his daughter Elsie.
 The mother, now in a sanitarium, had previously identified the jewetry; an- other woman had identified the under clothing and relatives had said that the murdered girl was Elsie Slegel. grand daughter of General Franz Siegei.
 This afternoon Paul Siegel visited the morgue, accompanied by Franz Siegel. a brother, and Reginald, son, and by Mabel siegei, a cousin of the victim. It was almost dark when the little party reached the silent house of the 6ty's unclaimed dead.
 There were no tears, but the faces were strained and pale as they enter ed the gloomy morgue First clothing on the body was examined by Mabel Siegel.
 aElsie,' said the girl. as sine exam ined 1t. used to wear peculiar white
 A detective ran hts fingers through the underciothing on the body and in a moment held up a white headed pin. Mabel Siegel nodded.
 "Eisie wore that" she said.
 After a momept she was sure that the clothing was that worn by her cousin. The party passed into the dead room. where the body lay in long. cofin-iIke drawer Amid silence. the compartment was drawn out. The face was first uncovered and the teeth ex- amined. The father was silent. but Mabel siegel was quick to note the teeth.
 aThose are Eisie's teeth.- she said. land her hands. too"
 Paul Siegel nodded his head afflrma- lively. AS each new feature WAS brought out, so strengthen the iden- tiflcation.,
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 ssY am satisfied.~ he said in q broken voica. a@ he was led AwNy Franz siegeI made arrangements for the immediate removal of the body and for the funeral.
 Elsie Sfegers stomach. however is in the hands of the Columbia Univer- sity professor, who will make chem fcsi analysis of It's contents. Although the murder is supposed to have been committed on June g. the exact cause of her death. has never been ascer- tained. whether she was choked, smothered under pillow or drugged. or bound with ropes and left to die, horribly in the trunk. Is as much mystery as is the whereabouts of Ling and his pal Chung Sing.
 Gnu Gan manager of the Port Ar thur restaurant, in Chinatown. has ad- mitted that he knew Elsie Siegel we'll and had incurred the enmity of Ling and that both he tChu Gan) and the girl, had been threatened with death.
 A Mrs. E. Smith, wno says she knew the Siegels well, suggests that the vic- tim is not Elsie Siegel, but myste- rious Nellie, who has figured in Leon Ling's love affairs. She holds 1t possi- bie that Elsie and the Chinamen were preparing to elope when Nellie" ap- peared, created 8 scene and disap- peared.
 Today two Chinamen called at the Siegel home, ignorant of Mrs. SiegePs removal to a sanitarium, and asked to see "our mother angel" a name which Mrs. Siegel earned because of her mis- sion work among the Chinese. One of the men said he was Gnu Sam, brother of Gnu Gan. who Is under arrest. Gnu Sam said that Chung Sin, who disap- peared simultaneously with Leon, bor- rowed $250 from his brother. Gnu Gan, the Tuesday before the murder, and on the following day wrote that he would be out of town for some time. Gnu Gan Is president of a Chinese loan as. sociation.
 Mabel Siegel said today that Elsie had been in love with an army man in Wyoming. She read extracts from let ters. which she said had been written by this man to Elsie. all of which were couched in afrectionate words and were signed your old sweetheart, Howard"
 Mrs. Todd, the mission worker who has known all along of Leon Ling'S in- fatuation for Elsies does not care to talk of the efficacy vf Chinese conver- sion to Christianity, and Captain Ca- rey of the Bureau of Homictdes, will not permit the mass of letters found tumbled with Bibles and pictures of ballet girls in that strange room, with gorgeous embroidered drapery, to be published or even their contents indi- cated. The mission in Chinatown where Elsie Siegel taught has been i closed.
 MT. siegel at his home tonight gave out an interview, the first since the discovery of the murder. He said that the funeral would not be held from the house.
 ''The disgrace has been keen enough AS 1t Is without having the funeral from here in front of a gaping crowd" he said. My wife and l have aged ten years the past week. This should be a lesson to young girls, not to mix with other than their own people. I have not slept for four or i've days, but now that the Identification is cer- tain, I feel that can get a little rest. Funeral arrangements will be made to- morrow. But 1t will be a quiet funeral and no one will know anything about 1t but the members of the family, If I can avoid it."
 Letters which may have an import ant bearing on the case, particularly with reference to Gnu Gan, now under arrest, have been found in the Port Arthur restaurant by detectives. 1t be- came known tonight. There were nearly 200 of them. all written by Fl. sic siegel to Gnu Gan. They show that the girl bestowed terms of endearment upon at least one other Chinaman be- side Leon Ling. The letters were taken to police headquarters but their text was not given out.
 The find of the letters from Elsie to Gnu Gan simplinea the case In the minds of the police so far as motive is concerned. Tn B nutshell. 1t is re- duced to one theory. that is that Elsie