The sun., 1909-06-30
TRAVELS. OF SIGEL TRUNK
MEN WHO TOOK IT TO HARLEM
AND NEWARK ARE FOUND.
Iour Chinese Besides Leung watched an
I.>pressman Cart II Away From
Eighth Avenue--I.eung QuakinE In n
( Ta>lcab on Midnight Ride to Jersey.

louud trunk in which Elsie Stgei's body
was found on June 1s. nine days after
-h. was killed. is at length ready for the
,,lung.> The expressman who took it
rc a Chinese laundry in Harlem within
an hour after the murder was done was
found yesterday. The taxicab chauffeur
was found who took Leung Lin and the
t,unk from the laundry to Newark on
that night. Four Chinese who may
have witnessed the murder and perhaps
had hand IN it figure in the story.
Az 1890 O'Clock on June Q. the day on
which the granddaughter Of Gen. Franz
Sigel was put out Of the way in the dark
little room of Leung Linn at 7s2 Eighth
avenue, Chinese who appears to have
been the : distraught Leung himself
emerged from the Eighth avenue house
and went looking for an expressman.
His method Of finding one was not
particularly illustrative Of Oriental cum
ming He just walked to the nearest
express Office, which CHANGED to be that
OF the Constitutional Express at 1T
Eighth avenue.
There he found the boss Of the shop,
Thomas H. Cummins, and said in good
Il want trunk taken from 1872 Eighth
avenue, top floor, TO Wah Kee's laundry
at s7o West l28th street. and want 1t
taken right away"
Half an hour later Arthur logan. who
drives q wagon for Cummins. appear ed
at 1872 Eighth avenue ready to take the
trunk. He and his assistant noted as they
climbed the four flights OF stairs that 1t
kept getting darker and darker When
they reached the top floor and were
ushered into cubby hole OF room by
the same dapper but nervous Shinaman
scarcely see each other. The window
shade was down. Logan advanced and
stumbled over a chair. Then he stopped
and said to Leung. the dapPer Chinese,
where is your blamed trunk"
next room. In which lived Chung Sing.
shifting stories, told in the House of De.
tention, rests all that the police know OF
what took place in those rooms on the
day OF the murder. Logan and his assist
little lighter than Leung 8 ROOM In the
centre Of the room stood trunk. bound
and bound again with rope. Around 1t
stood four silent Cinnamon.
They weren't short haired Cinnamon,
these iour. They had queues and blouses'
They moved when leung spoke; but ioI
the most part they stood still and seemed
disposed to take no part in whatever
action might spring from the advent of
the expressman and his helper.
That's the trunk said Leung. The
e1pressmen picked it up fore and att ra and
noticed that it was heavy, but they're used
TO heavy trunks They hoisted II aboard
the wagon down in front Of rs? and drove
off to Harlem.
The lauHdry at $40 West l26th street
bears the sign Of Man Lee. but ii there
l., cod hat
neighborhood years ago. When the
expressnap got there on the afternoon
of June out stepped a Chinaman who
seemed to be expecting something. He
was Wah kee, he said. Had they brought
the trunk? Yes, he knew about the trunk.
The charge would be 50 cents? All right,
ihe would pay it.
The expressman carried the trunk into
the laundry. 1t was a tight squeeze to
get it into Wah Kee's Q combined sleeping
room and Kitchen In the rear. but they
made it. .sWah Kse cnehs up with the SO
cents and the carriers drown back down.
town.
That ended Logan,s part in the episode
of the roped trunk, as he told it TO a
man who ran him down yesterday.
The next thing was to find the taxicab
that relayed the trunk to the restaur ant of
Leung Inns friend, LII Sing. at ei Market
street, Newark
In the neighborhood OF the Wah Kee
laundry are two taxicab agencies. The
first one visited by the investigator had
had no Newark calls in ever 20 long. but
at the second one, that of the New York
Taxicab Company at 125th street and
Eighth avenue. the night starter renem-
bered that he had sent a car TO Newark
very late at night on June 9.
The man who ordered the car. the
starter said. had been taken for japanese
by the men around the garage. With
that tip 1t was easy to get the rest OF the
story Of the Newark trip from the main
at Fifty eighth street and Eleventh
avenue.
Among their records Of calls on June o
the company had this slip:
NO. l9s, Newark. 1855 P. M"
The II , ta1cab manager da explained ned, that that
a number. and that No. l9s was Martin
LuTia Of aiO East Fourth street. After
reading newspaper reference about
Leung's trip to Newark the manager
said he bad examined the records until
he found the mo. I9S. Newark" slip.
Then he had a talk with Luria and found
that this chauffeur was the man who
transported Leung Linn and Elsie Sige's
body from the Harlem laundry into New
jersey.
The Chinaman, according to Luria's
story as related by the taxicab manager
just before midnight on June Q. He wanted
10 go TO Newark, and he added that there
would be something to pick up Luria
told him the fare would be $l2.
So the taxicab was fooled around to
the laundry of Wah Kee and a Chinaman
helped Luria put the trunk aboard. Leung
\eemed all unstrung, He danced about
fhe cab. He asked the chauffeur to strap
the trunk doubly fast beside the drivers
seat, He seemed mortally afraid that it
would fall of. Finally he scampered into
the taxicab, jerked down the shades and
told Luria to 20 ahead to the laundry OF
Ii Sing at 84 Market street. Newark:
The taxicab got to the Twenty third
street ferry just too late to catch the boat
that Leung wanted to take. AT Des-
brosses street boat was waiting. Leung
poked his head out OF the window and
gave the chauffeur money for the fare:
That was the only time in the course Of
the trip, Luria said when he got back.
that his Chinese fare showed himself.
When they got to Ii Sings restaurapa in
Newark Leung got out and rounded up
two other Cinnamon to help him carry
the trunk in. They took 1t to Ii Sings
kitchen upstairs. Deung paid Luria the
Sl2 at 2 o'clock in the morning. The
chauffeur returned to New York. There
ended his part. wholly innocent. in the
episode Of the rope bound trunk.
Yesterdays discoveries seem to prove
that the Chinaman who cent the Don't
worry telegram from Washington to
Elsie Sigel's mother at o'clock on the
evening OF June was not Leung Lin.
II would have taken more than railroad
train TO get him back to Harlem at l:5S
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