The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01
MISSivES OF MURDERED MIS-
SiONARY TELL A PECULIAR
STORY.
TWO STRINGS TO HER BOW
And Both Jealous Chinese Strings
One Rich Merchant-Other Poor
Sport-sisned Death Warrant
In Afectionats Notes.

New York, June 26.-Elsie Sigefs CO
quoting with her two Chinese lovers
brought on her death. Her letters to
William Leon, the flashy young sport,
whose pockets were always empty,
and to Chu Gain, who always had
money for his friends, are direct indl-
cations to the police that the grand
daughter of General Franz Sigel would
be alive If she had not tried to play
two Chinese strings to her bow.
The police have kept tight hold on
the girls loving notes to her yellow
admirers, refusing to make them pub
lie for three reasons. The Sigel fam
lily went to Commissioner Bingham
and entreated him not to give them
out.
Hundreds Of letters from all over
the country have been received at po-
lice headquarters asking the commits
sioner to withhold them, because their
publication might affect other girls
who might be inclined to be as fool,
ish as Elsie had been.
For a third reason, the police heads
argue that Leon might have a better
chance to run if the contents of Ell,
sizes letters were common property.
They have not been entirely sue
cessful In Mulberry street though, in
preventing the contents of a few let,
tiers to Leon, hunted all over the world
as the girls murderer, and to Chu
Gain. her other lover, from becoming
known and these letters tell in them,
selves the cause of her murder.
Dual Game Of Love.
She soothed Icons jealousy with
one hand while she smoothed the ruff.
fed feelings of the other Chinese
with the other. She wrote one day
to William l.. Leon of the missions,
her Willie" assuring him she would
not give him up for anybody. A few
days later she wrote to Chu Gain that
she loved Chu and Chu only and that
Willie" was nothing to her.
All of this time, for weeks before
she was s%trangled in Icons room,
Leon al snarling with jealousy,
threatening the girl, threatening Chu
Gain, appealing to his own private
Tong to help him get square and send,
ing out Chung Sing as a spy.
ME police learned that while Elsie
was undoubtedly making love to both
Cinnamon, her mother had ordered
her to break away from Leon and pay
more attention to Chu Gain.
Hsie's letters indicated that she
was willing enough to flatter the
mopeyed Cinnamon with loving phras,
es, but she IA not ready to break off
with her old friend, Leon.
New York. June 25.-With all tangi.
bic indications Of any near approach
to a solution of the murder of Elsie
Sigel narrowing to the vanishing
point, whereas a fresh crop Of rumors
springs with each hour of added un'
certainty. another day Of threefold in
vestigation by police, detectives and
district attorney has ended.
Chung Sin, after "a hours of steady
grilHng. with but one intermission for
sleep, had a day of rest at last.
The same stream of hopeful but un'
satisfactory clues kept pouring in
from Chinatown itself. from Newark
and the suburbs, and eve from the
cities of the Pacific coast, but so far
as the police here could determine
last night, none of them proved to
have any substantial basis.