Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-21
TOday's Telegraphic News
The Murder Of Elsie sigel.

men and the pretty tseaty-yesr-oid mis-
sionary girl, Elsie Sigel, are the old, old
love triangle that the police have uucov-
cred In their energetic investigation of
the murder Of the girl whose body was
found packed in a trunk ID the Oriental
apartment of Leon Ling, missionary
OhiDaman. The new celestial ia the
case is Ohu Gain, wealthy restaurant
proprietor in New YOrk's Chinatown,
who admits his love for the girl aud bis
rivalry to Leon Ling, for whom the po-
lice of the Pacific coast are now watching
every port OF outlet from the county.
Leon with his companion, Chung Sin,
have been traced from New York,
through Washington and Chicago on the
way to the coast and if he has not al
ready been able to leave the country, his
arrest is probable.
The true motive for the killing of
Elsie SigeI, the mad jsalousIy of her
yellow pupil. was uncovered when Chu
Gain, a stolid, snug Ohinaman, OF mid
die age, coWerng under fierce examiua-
ton. told the police that he aud the flee
ing Leon had been rivals for the girls
love; that Leon thought Elsie favored
Ohu Gain, and had threatened to kill
both the girl, and the restaurant proprie-
tor, "like a pig" Gnu Gain, trembling,
admitted that he had given to Chung
Sin, room mate of Leon, who accom-.
panied the Americanized Chinaman in
his fight, $3.50 as bride to avert the
vengeance of Leon on June 9, the day
Elsie Sigel was killed. This money un-
doubtely financed the fight of the pair
This romance which ended in the
tragedy is fully outlined in the scores of
letters from Elsie to Ohu Gain which
we're found by the police when they
searched his rooms yesterday. These are
similar to the letters found In the room
of Leon Ling.
Paul Sgel, father of the murdered
girl, made a positive Identification OF the
terrible changed body of his daughter
yesterday. He told Captain McOsherly
that for years he had fought against his
daughters friendship for the mission
Cinnamon whom she had taught to read
the Bible. He doubted the religious
fervor of the pig-tsiled yellow men
whose plety demanded that each of them
have an individual pretty white girl to
teach him his Bible. But Elsie and
her mother we're wrapped up in their
work smODg the heathens in the opium
dens and chop suey restaurants.
Ohu Gains wealth Was one of the
prominent factors which caused the mad
Jealousy of Leon, the police think. Leon,
comparatively poor, was unable 10 offer
his pretty white Sunday school teacher
one half of the luxuries that were at the
disposal of the SNUG moneyed restaurant
keeper. That the belief that the girl
would be lost to him through the wealth
of Ohu Gain led Leon to lure her away,
either to his den in the tenement or to
Washington, the police have no doubt.
Washington, June 2l.-It was learned
today that postal card WAS received at
the Yong Women's Christian AssOcis-
ton Home, at 81 o street, last Tuesday,
from woman who signsd herself Miss
K. Il. Mann, and giving her address as
44S Main street, East Orange. N. j.,
asking for accommodations. 1t is be-
leved that the writer was the woman
who called there Thursday, and WAS d.
rectsd to the house next door, where she
remained until Thursday evening until
called for by the two Cinnamon.
With the whole country aroused and
searching eagerly for the Chinese who
fed from New York after Elsie Sigel had
been slain, Inspector McOsfierty today
received word from West Galway, q
hamlet near Amsterdam, n. Y, that
Chung Sing, the roommate of Leon
Ling, in whose room the body was
found, and who fled with Leon, had
been arrested there and had admitted
bis identity. but refused to talk of the
affair. McCafierty Immediately sent 3
squad of men to Amsterdam to invest.
gate. The man arrested, according to
toe report had been working IS a cook
for the past eight days at the summer
home OF Harvey Kennedy, at West Gal.
way.
If the man caught at Galway is Chung
Sin, the police are confident that LeOn
has not left the country, bat has con-
cesled himself near by. The fact that
Leon may be travelling alone conflicts
with the findings Of the Washington and
Chicago authorities who claim to have
traced him, another Ohinaman and \
white woman.
Elsie Sigels life WAS threatened by
Leon Ling the day before she disap-
peared, according to Paul Sigel, the
girls father.
81 know that both Leon and Ohu
Gain were in love with Elsie" the
father said, "snd that Leon was very
jealous. Within twenty -four hours
have learned that on June there WAS y
party at my house attended by several
Cinnamon. Leon came to the party
drunk. He called Elsie to one side and
told her that II she had anything to do
with Ohu Gain he would kill them
BOTH"
schenectady, N. Y, June 2l.-After
sweating the Chinese under arrest here
as suspect in the Sigel murder case
for several hours, Chief of Police RYnex
this afternoon said that he <as not Ger.
tain that the right man had been cap.
tured. "While the suspect fits the de-
scription OF William Leon, alias Leon
Ling, sent out by the New York police
we have nothing else against him. He
is of the correct age, height, and weight,
and his hair tallies with that given 10
the description.
"The man seems to be perfectly calm ]