The sun., 1909-06-29
GOT TRUNK AT LEUNG'S PLACE
EXPRESsMAN SAYS HE TOOK 1T
10 HARLEM on JUNE 8.
Destination Hah Lees Laundry Chinese
I.aundrymen warned by Their bosses
10 Avoid white -McCanerty
| Talks OF the Hunt for the Murderer,


Iaundrymen warned by Their BOSSES
10 Avoid white Womcn--McCaTerty
Talks OF tho Hunt for the Murderer,
An expressman appeared at the. West
Forty seventh street police station last
night and said that on the morning OF
June che got trunk from the top floor
OF the building. at 1872 Eighth avenue,
where Elsie Sigel was killed. and carried
it to a Chinese laundry in West l2oth
street run by Wah Lee. 1t was on the
morning of June 0 that the Sigel murder
took place.
The expressman started to show the
West Forty-seventh street lieutenant
a note book in which he said was a record
OF the trunk transaction, but the lieutenant
hustled him over to the office OF the
fourth branch detective bureau in charge
OF detective. From there the two
started for Police Headquarters, but they
hadn' t arrived at Headquarters late last
night q.
In almost all the Chinese laundries OF
this chy and territory abutting have
been posted placards warning Cinnamon
to leave white women alone. The owners
of iaurpiries VINO put the placards there
point TO. them as development OF the
Sgel murder case. indicating the good
faith OF their race in starting a campaign
that Will make repetition impossible.
Laundries owned by individual Chinese
are few In these parts. Most OF them are
controlled by big companies: instead OF
being proprietors the washermen Wun
Lungs and Gee Cuts whose names you see
over the doors OF the tight little cleaner
les are just hired men taking their wages
out of the weeks receipts when the COL
lector comes around. 1t is these COM
panies that have caused the warning
posters to be displayed in the back rooms
Of the hpndries.
The pint is Chinese and the language
pointed. 1t says that conversation between
white women and employees must be re-
stricted to the yea, yea and nay, nay OF
business. The Cinnamon mustn't gossip.
II the woman who comes with her wash
seems disposed toward persifage he must
discourage it. The gist OF the orders is
that the laundryman's job is knocking
the spdtS of sotled clothes and must stop
there. sThe warning says that disobedi
ent Cinnamon will be punished by their
own people.
Yesterday Inspector James McCafferty.
chief of Ythe detective bureau, relieved
himself OF the first extended interview
he has given since the search began for
young teung Linn as the man who killed
Elsie Sigel on June 0. He peeled of his
coat and sat down TO an exposition OF just
what thepolice know and think about the
exasperating case, what they're doing to
snare the fugitive and where the best
clue lies.
A'dozen Central Office men, McCaferty
said, have been sent to New Jersey re-
Gently TO follow tho likeliest lead as TO
the whereabouts OF Leung that has devel-
oped sihoe that willy Sunday school boy
was accused of the murder. They are
now in Hackensack. Newark. Passaic.
Paterson and smaller towns in that neigh
borhood.l
Fifty other detectives from the home
office have been distributed among the
larger cities of the East. They arc scout
ing as far north as Boston and as far south
as Washington. McCaferty does not
know that any OF the Fifty has a really
first class clue. but they're all plugging
at something. The hunt has reached
point where hardly a rumor Is deemed
too fishy for an able bodied c. o. sleuth
to put in his best licks on.
sAnd wish you'd say McCaherty
getting beats anything in my experience
with murder cases. The police every
where are sweating as il this were their
own case and there were fat reward.
We're one big bureau all working to-
gether now The United States is like
-. Al l.
stopped up. believe Leung ls alive in
that watched trap and that he won't
get away
Somebody asked the inspector how
about ships that Leung Lin might have
sneaked away on.
There's just one possibility, he replied.
sTheres vessel duo 10 reach Yokohama
on July, s, and the Chnaman may be
aboard Of her. But she will be searched
from stem to stern before anybody is
allowed to leave her. Every other ship
that's cleared for foreign port since the
day OF the murder has been searched or
its passengers accounted for"
Another theorist wondered about the
telegram ,that Leung Lin is supposed
20 have sent from Washin gtOn to Elsie
Sigel's mother at 0 o'clock on the evening
OF June Q, about nine hours after the
murder. :Hew could Ieung have skipped
back td-kew-.foSk and taxicabbed to
Newark with that rope bound trunk in
time to descend upon his puzzled laundry
man friend. Ii Sing. at ? O'Clock the next
morningy
fAllow a little for the average mans
inability to place exactly the time OF
anything he sees and he could have Just
done it, was the McCafferty reply. I'VE
believe Leung sent the telegram-we
almost know il to certainty-and we
believe that he took the body to Newark
and brought it back to 1872 Eighth avenue.
where IT was found"
The known facts, McCafferty said, are
these; Elsie Sigel was killed on June .
between 10 o'clock in the morning and
1880 In the afternoon in Leung 1im's
room on Eighth avenue; Leung was the
murderer and perhaps Chung Sing, his
satellite. now in the House or Detention
under police treatment for partial loss Of
memory; nobody is being hunted for but
Leung. after the murder Leung went to
Washington; he returned In time TO take
the trunk to Newark and arrive there about
O'Clock ON the morning OF June 10; he got
Cabman James Halstead to bring the trunk
to New-York on the afternoon Of the same
E4plside. of that We aren't sure OF a
ru4uing down 'rumors.'
HaA any OF Elsie SigeI's clothes been
fo,thd9 No, aud the police have no
have been burned In Leungs stove. but
II Sd you can't prove it by the ashes says
EcChfferty.
Anything in the report that before
Leupg took the trunk to Newark hc tried
a. lns.n is, ALL i