The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-06-25
LOVED CONVERTED
CH|NAMAN
MISS ELSIE sIGEL, VICTIM OF
cHINAMAN WHOM SHE
CONVERTED.
BODY FOUND IN A TRUNK
Young Lady Had Associated With the
Monaghan and Horror is the Re
suit Of II.

The body of Miss Elsie Sigel, the
20-year-old daughter of Paul Sigel, a
clerk employed in the New York
board OF health, and a son OF Gen.
Franz Sigel the late civil war veteran
and former comptroller of the city
Of New York, was found Saturday
evening crammed into a trunk in the
room occupied by a young educated
Chinaman of the Sunday school type
at 1872 Eighth avenue. IL was so badly
decomposed as to be unacceptable,
but locket and bracelet found upon
1t were identified by Mrs. Sigel as
the property of her daughter. The
Chinaman disappeared from his lodg-
ing place a week ago. and it was the
coroner's opinion that the body had
been in the trunk fully that length
of time.
William l.. Leon, the young China
man who occupied the room, was well
known in missionary circles in the
city. He was frequently seen with
Miss Sigel. Miss Sigel disappeared
from her home, June 8.
Around the neck of the young wo-
man was a spangle, apparently a col
lege or high school pin, bearing the
initials E. G. S. Mr.. Sigel examined
this spangle first and said that he
could not recall that his daughter
had ever had one like 1t. Then he
looked at the body and went away
declaring that it was not that Of his
daughter.
The police, however, insisted on send
ing the spangle and a bracelet to Mr..
Sigers home and having the mother
of the girl examine it. She identified
both articles.
According to the story which Mr.
Sigel told the police his daughter gave
no warning when she left home on
June 8. On the 18th, however, he
received a telegram from Washington
bearing his daughters name. This
telegram, so the police say, read as
follows:
"Wnl be home Sunday evening.
Don't worry.-Elsie."
Both Mr.. Sigels wife and her
daughter were interested in mission
airy work among the Chinese. 1t was
through work of this sort that Miss
Sigel met Leon. The police said that
there was a picture of the missing
two persons informed the detectives
that they had seen Miss Sigel with
the Chinaman at the theater about
week ago.
Her letters to Dearest Linz" to-
gether with affectionate or imploring
notes from another white woman who
signed herself Nellie" and packets
of picture postcards from a dozen
white women, we're found in the room
of the Chinaman.
Some of the letters were undated.
Others went back to the spring of
1907 Still others had been written
within few weeks. All of them were
signed simply Elsie, but they contain
ed illusions that left no doubt as to
identity Of the girl who wrote them.
A few of the longer ones reproached
Leung Linn for GOODNESS toward a girl
that loved him, but many held no hint
that she doubted the Chinaman's af-
lection. On the contrary, they glowed
warmly with assurances of her own
devotion.
There was not a word or a sylla-
bic in one Of them which might point
the way to understanding how Elsie
ceiled grimy room above the chop
suey shop.
The police heads studied these let
tiers for hours, then, under straight
orders from Commissioner Bingham,
refused to allow them to be printed.
Take it any way you like, said one in
authority at headquarters, 1t was not
a pleasant story and no reason ap-
peared why Elsie Sigel's letters to the
queueless missioner should be spread
in public. 1t was sufficient to say
that she was in love with the yellow
man and that their intimacy had been
close.
Speedy solution Of the mystery of
the revolving death of Elsie Sigel is
looked for as a result of the arrest of
two Cinnamon believed to be Leon
Ling, or William Leon, as he was also
known, and Chung Sin, his associate,
the first at Schenectady and the other
near Amsterdam, n Y, Monday.