The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-20
A Chinaman Suspected
as the Murderer.
GONE 70 VANCOUVER B. c.
Celestial Of Jealous Disposition,
Girl Feared Him.
had Many Female Admirers Beside
Elsie, wac Reprsached Him
= Because sacriace she Had
Z Made for Hlm.

New York, June 1s.--Untl dapper,
etockily built Chinese. well educated
and whom last seen, dressed in a black
suit of American cut. IL under arrest
and put through the police inquisition
known as~the third degree" 1t Is like
W the murder of Elsie Siegel. grand
daughter OF the old civil war hero. will
remain nnsolved.
Leon Ling, alias LeonK Lee Linn,
alias William L. Leon, alias William L.
Lion, converted Monaghan, restaurant
proprietor. admirer OF white women
and lover Of Elsie Siegel. Is the man.
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 had formerly oc-
cnpied, remains to be learned. With
him is supposed to be his companion
and erstwhile room mate, Chung Sin,
who also may be able to throw light
upon, the murder. Some reports say
that both Cinnamon are on their way
TO Vancouver via Panama. All that Ia
known to certainty Is that they are
missing and the girls battered body
remained behind in the room Of an ORR
entail who iovsd her jealously. logged
her footsteps. threatened her and at
times spoke with such eyh intent that
the 20-year-old girl confessed to
former pagan wooer.
Few murder cases IN New York have
developed more rapidly and at the
same time come no nearer solution
than the Siegei mystery. But that
part of the story which was unravelled
here today brought out principally the
mysterious phases Of the girls life;
her apparent craze for mission work
among the Chinese; her associations
with the man who is supposed to have
killed her. and lastly, the fact that 1t
was on his account that she left home
on. wednesday, June .. 1t has also
some but that the girls mother. now
50 Frustrated, according to reports.
that Il was necessary TO remove her to
q hospital. had beer fearful Of her
nearance ana h&d ssarci1ea Chinatown
day after day without success. Both
parents. however, the mother, and Paul
Eiegel, the father. are hoping against
hope, ciinains to the eyasive clue that
{ tslegratn ehta YES sent
"Wednesday. This message read;
will be home Sunday, or soon. Do
not worry"
The father, as far as can be learned,
hurried to Washington today to deter
mine whether the, telegram was sent
by his daughter or rs q taind. The
police maintain that II was sent by a
chinaman quickly after the murder to
delay investigatien and aid the mur-
derer to escape. Leon or Iion, and
Chung SIN were we'll do. Investiga-
ton today showed that they conducted
four restaurants in all. one near Fort
George ON the Hudson, not far from
the Siegel home, in the Bronx; one at
Coney Island. another at Paterson. N.
j.. and another at Norfolk. va.
Elsie Siegel's entry into the mystic
rious ways Of tho Chinese came through
her now grief-crazed mother, who was
long identified with Sunday Sch ools
and mission work in Chinatown. In
this way the girl came to know vari-
Gus Cinnamon and when Leon. whom
she met at the Fort George resort. be-
came attentive, he was received in the
Siegel home, and continued hts associa-
lions with the girl until his love be-
came violent. Then, from what can be
learned, her father forbade the China
man to visit the house.
Deserted Her Home.
It was then that Elsie, although a.
Sraid of her admirer. deserted her home
never to be seen alive again by any
of her household. Where she went d.
rectly after leaving home. whether she
Joined the Chinaman or was lurei to
the room and murdered. must be clear
ed up. Her body tells only the story
of brutal murder and the disappear
ance OF the Chinaman adds the other
morbid feature. That the girl cut her
family ties because of the Chinaman, Is
indicated In the following note, un-
dated, which was found in Icons eff
1ects:
You seem to be growing cold to me.
Just think of the sacrifice L made for
you--my family. my friends. For Gods
sake. don't forsake me-
(Signed) Elsie"
As to the motive for the murder. the
police care inclined to accept, frst teal-
ously. then love mania. The girl was
loved at least by one other Chinanan
thea Leon, and this may have caused
the crime. A letter to Leon, threaten
ing him IL he persisted in his attentions
to the girl was among the missives Civ
ing clue to this phrase of the case,
while in Chinatown a Celestial known
as Yum Bing is known to have admired
her.
Police activity here has brought a.
bout the arrest Of three Cinnamon who
were associated with the restaurant
keeper, Sun Leung, above whose place
the body was found. but they are held
only as material witnesses. Sun LeunK
Is missing. In tn emeantime physi-
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