Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-20
Girl Evidently Left Home Because
She Loved Him.
HAD THREATENED TO KILL HER
Lovesick Note She Wrote Him in
Possession of Police.
MOTHER ACTIVE MISSIONARY
Through Her Zeal for ConvcrtinR
Chinnmen Go ChristiRn Faith
Daughter Met Man who
Probably Caused Death.

NEW YORK. n. Y. June Is-ITntil a
dappcr stockily built Chinese well edu-
Gated and when last seen, dressed in a
black suit Of American cut Is under ar
rest and put through the police inquisition
known as "the third degree" It is likely
that the murder OF Elsie Segel. grand
daughter Of General Franz siegel, Civil
war hero, will remain unsolved.
Leon Ling, alias Leong Lee Lin, alias
William l.. Leon, converted Mongollan
restaurant proprietor, admirer of white
women and lover OF Elsie Slegel. is the
man. But when or how he left New York,
while the girls body lay cramped and de-
composing in a battered trunk In the stuffy
little room he formerly occupied remains
to be learned. With him is supposed to
be his companion and orstwhile room
mate, Chung Sin who also may be able
to throw some light upon the murder.
Some reports say that both Cinnamon
are on their way to Vancouver via PAN
anna, but this rumor is only one of many.
All that is known to a certainty is that
they are missing, and that the girls bat
tered body remained behind In the room
! Of an Oriental who loved her jeaously
logged her footsteps, threatened her. and
at times spoke with such evil intent that
the 2O-year-old girl confessed to friends
that she was afraid OF her former wooer.
Girl Associated with ChInamen.
Few murder cases In New York have
| developed more rapidly and at the same
| time come no nearer solution than the
Siegel mystery. But that part of the story
which was unraveled here today brought
out principally the mysterious phases Of
the girls life; her apparent craze for
mission work among the Chinese; her as
sociatons with the man who is supposed
to have killed her, and, lastly, the fact
that it was on his account that she left
home on Wednesday, June o.
1t has also come out that the girls
mother. now so prostrated. according to
reports that It has been necessary TO re-
move her 20 a hospital, had been fearful
of her daughters safety ever since the
girls disappearance, and had searched
Chinatown day after day without success
The mother and Paul Siegel the father,
are hoping against hope and are cIlnging
| to the evasive clue that a telegram signed
'E. s." was sent from Washington on the
fateful Wednesday. This message read
"Will be home Sunday soon. DO not
worry"
|
hurried to Washington today to determine
whether the telegram was sent by his
daughter or as a blind. The police main
tain that it sent by Chinaman
quickly after the murder to delay investi-
cation and to aid the murderer to escape.
Leon and Chung Sin are well to do. In
vestigaton today showed that they con-
Quoted four restaurants in all, one near
Fort George the Hudson, not far from
the Segel home on the Bronx, one at
Coney Island and at Paterson, N. j., and
another at Norfolk, Va. All these resotts
will be closely watched by the police.
Girls Missionary Career.
Elsie Siegels entry into the mysterious
ways of the Chinese came through her
now grief-crazed mother who was long
identified with Sunday schools and mission
work in Chinatown. In this way the girl
came to know various Cinnamon, and
when Leon, whom she met at the Fort
George resort, became attentive, be was
received in the siegel home, and continued
his associations with the girl until his
love became violent. Then from what can
be learned, her father forbade the China
, man to visit the house
1t was then that Elsie, although afraid
( Of her admirer, deserted her home, never
to be seen alive again by any OF her house
: hold. Where she went directly after lsav-
: ing home, whether she Joined the China
I man, or was lured to the room and muir
/, dered. is yet to be cleared up. Her body
tells only the story Of a brutal murder.
The disappearance of the Chinaman adds
the other morbid feature
e LOVesicS Note IA Heathen.
That the girl cut her family ties because
= OF the Chinaman is indicated by the fol-
: lowing note. undated, which was found
in Icons effects.
e You seem to be growing cold to me. Just
. think Of the sacrifice | made for you
l my family and my friends. For God s
j sake don't forsake me. ELSIE
! As to the motive for the murder, the
J. police are inclined to accept first jealousy,
and then love-mania. The girl was loved
: by at least one other Chlnaman than
e Leon, and this may have caused the crime.
d A letter TO Leon threatening him IL he
persisted in his attentions toward the girl
i, was among the missves giving clue to
: this phase In Chinatown celestial
e known as Young Bien is known TO have
admired her.
4 Three CeIestials I'm Jail.
< Police activity here has brought about
K the arrest of three Cinnamon who were
Z associated with the restaurant keeper, sun
y Leung above whose place the body was
II found but they are held merely as ma
o terial witnesses. sun Leung is missing.
), In the meantime physicians are making
y a more minute examination Of the body
a , and its organs An autopsy held this aft
: ernoon determined that the victim died
IS from asphy1ia but since there were indi
n cations Of poison present a chemical anal
At ysis viii be necessary. To this end tn,
ID organs have been sent 10 Prof. George A
n Ferguson. OF Columbia university.
2 Franz Sieeel an uncle OF the murdered
% girl and one of four sons who survfv,