The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-21
MURDERER OF
ELSIE SIGEL IS
NOT LOCATED
Mas in Washington on June IL
and Later Appeared in Chi
Caqo on Way West.
ebTHER OF THE GIRL
FINALLY CONVINCED
..-yee IN sANITARIUM AFTER
,osNTIzYING BODY AS THAT
OF DAUGHTER.

,.... York June 20.-Leon Ling, the
...-.-rsr suspected of numbering Elsie
e.-.I NAV never be found. The police,
-..--7fuz to AN announcement made
.-rt regard tine search for him as
l.-----t.5+ homeless. However, the mu-
49, blIv of the girl left behind in a
a.r. .- lis room will not be buried in
..---a-+fars- field Paul Sigel, the father
49, and uositiveIy Identified the
5,-.f rra morgue tonight, admitting
tss frsr time tina the victim was
ID. daughter Elsie.
r-- r.rrs mother. now in a santa
had previously identified the
-ir,. another woman had identified
~ .r1srrIarniug. and relatives had said
~. murdered girl was Elsie Sigelr
-.r55sugbter of General Franz Sigel
---rg t1night. however. the father hal
,,gintsiued silence But after a con-
s.-eraa at police headquarters this aft
Noon no visited the mOrgue, accom-
rsris3 bv Franz Sigel brother; Regi-
rsH his SON. and Mabel SiSeL cousin
of tha victim.
Marks Of Identification.
Fi-., the clothing on the body was
sysmfnsI bv Mabel SigCL
.F.ae." said the girl, as she exam
rsI IL used To- wear peculiar white
beaded pin
detective ram his fingers through
Che clothing and IN q moment held up a
rdHa-headed pin. Mabel Sigel nodded.
Elsie wore that she said.
The face was uncovered and the teeth
examined. The father was silent, but
Mabel was quick To- note the teeth.
-Tb1se are Elsie's teeth" she said,
"snd her hands. too.
Paul sgeI nodded his head affirma-
lively as each new feature was brought
out to- strengthen the Identification.
Father Finally Satisfied.
Coroner Harburger asked the father if
be was certain that the body was that
of his daughter.
Are you satisfied in every way Of
The accuracy of the Identification? he
was asked
Fl am satisfied" said the man in a
broken voice. as he was led away.
Franz SigeI made arrangements for
the Immediate removal of the body and
Joy ths funeral
oLCfHalU 10 DC rNldiy ECU
Elsie sieeTs stomach viii be analysed
AZ Columbia university. While the au-
t5Fsy determined that death probably
sas due to- asphyXiatiOn. whether she
Mas bh1ked. smothered under a pillow
r 5rurged. bound with ropes and left
90 die horribly I'm the trunk, is as much
mystery as is the WhereabOut of Leon
Ling and his pal
Clu Gain. manager of the Port Ar
thur restaurant. who was detained last
night as q witness. was held today
without bail until Tuesday. He has ad-
mitted that he knew Elsie Sigel well
and had incurred the enmity of Leon
Ling and that both ne (Chu CAIN and
Af girl had been threatened with death.
Mrs f. Smith. who processes 70 have
Known the family well, suggests that
ih7 victim is not Elsie Sigei but a
mysterious Nellie who had figured in
leon Liugs love affairs. Mrs. Smith
holds that it is possible she and the
th'nam8n were preparing to elope when
Nellie appeared. created a scene and
VAS killed. The substitution of the
clothing and the packing of the body in
.aa trunk complete this feminine SheT-
lock- Holmes theory.
Called at si1el Home.
During the afternoon two Cinnamon
called at the s gel home i'm the Bronx.
ignorant of Mrs, Sigers removal to a
sHiJar.um, and asked to see "our
mother angel" a name which Mrs. Sigel
earned because of her mission work
-nons the Chinese.
V2e said be was Gnu sam. a brother
&" gnu Gain, who is under arrest
h5iof7 going 90 the morgue, Mabel
Sge. said Elsie had been i'm love with
'I army man in Wyoming. She read
AIacls from letters which she said had
.5-a written 10y this man to Elsie, all
~ which were cOuChed in affectiOnate
evIlS and were signed your old sweet
A-4rt Howard"
e1r declined to- say where the army
-tA was stationed.
Notwithstanding the publicity given
-e ease Mrs. Todd. the mission worker
WV mas known an along of Leon Ling's
.--, for Elsie. does not care to
--.A OF The efficacy of Chinese CONVEX
C. SUNS 20 Christianity. and Captain
lIey OF the bureau of homicides will
' permit the mass IF letters found
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