The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-01
HELPED LEON LING
other Cinnamon Helped Him Dispose
of Girls Body.

OF OlTiS DOuys
New York, June 20.-Information
was at hand last night which for the
first time since the discovery of the
murder of Elsie Sigel eleven days
ago. definitely establishes that Leon
Ling must have had accomplices and
that. through a telegram signed with
his name and in his writing was sent
from Washington, he could not have
been there on the date on which the
message was sent The police have
also accounted in detail for the move
ments of the body as il was hurried
nither and thither in panic. after the
crime, up to the moment OF its dis
covery in the bedroom of Leon Ling
over an Eighth avenue cnop suey res
taurant.
The facts as to the movement OF
the body in New York, now added TO
the details previously unearthed con-
corning the trip to Newark, came out
through Arthur Logan, an express
man in the employ of the Constitution
Express company of tnis city, who
told that at 1890 p. m. on June 8,
the day of the murder, a lean. light
colored Chinaman, agreeing perfectly
with the description of Leon. called
at his office and told him that he
wanted trunk carted from the top
floor of 7S2 Eighth avenue TO the ad-
dress of Chinese laundry wnich his
book entry shows as Wah Kee. $40
West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
street
Logan lifted the trunk with the
help of his regular assistant. and
though he is a strong man, found II
heavy. II was l o'clock in the after
noon when ne left the house and 4
o'clock before he got to the Harlem
address There he found Wah Kee
waiting for him. "Tlunk? Tlunk?"
said Wah. "All light. Fifty cents?"
Fifty cents had been the charge
agreed upon with Leon Ling. Wah
nee knew of it in advance, so the ex-
pressman thinks and mis- views are
shared by the police. There was no
hesitancy about accepting the trunk
Wah Kee ordered II carried through
the laundry to the kitchen and sleep
ing room in the rear, where Logan
left 1t.
Nearly an hour later well dressed
Chinese called at tne companys
branch office at the corner of Twelfth
street and Eighth avenue and asked
how much it would cost him for a
taxicab to Newark. He was told $12
and instructed the driver, Martin
Luria to call at Wah KEGS laundry
for somebody" When Luria got TO
the laundry at 11:55 p. m. he found
that tne heavier part of his fare was
something" and not somebody
stoutly corded trunk. Leon Ling for
so Luria has subsequently identified
him. was pacing the street nervously
while the trunk was being lifted TO
the front seat, and insisted that II be
tightly lashed lest IL fall and break
open. The trunk secured, he stepped
into the taxicab himself and pulled
all the shades.
To the restaurant at No. Ga Market
street, Newark, he had been told to
drive. and when he arrived there at
2 O'Clock in the morning of June 10
III Sung, the proprietor, met him at
the door, and helped him carry the
trunk TO rear room. He was paid
and drove back to New York
The foregoing facts, telling how tne
body got TO Newark came out for the
first time through the taxicab driver
himself, Martin Luria. His narrative
doyetails with the testimony of
James Halstead, a Newark cabman.
who took the body and Leon Ling
back to the Eighth avenue room on
the afternoon of tne same day. where
the body stayed until found by the
police. Leon Ling vanished in the
mean time and it seems clear that to
have been at the various places men
toned Leon could not have spared
the time for a trip to Washington.
His hosts all showed suspicious fore
knowledge of his coming. and Caung
Sin, when he swore the trunk was In
the Eighth avenue house on the night
OF June and the door between his
room and that of Leon Ling was
never open, had sad lapse of men,
DRY. Whether he lied to save his own
skin or that of his pal, it is clear
that he knows a great deal more than
hA hoe tg11