The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-20
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on Monday. asking her to come back
San Francisco. June 10-The local
police department was advised today
by the New York police to keen a
sharp lookout for Leong Lee Lin
wanted in the eastern metropolis In
connection with the murder of Elsie
Sigel
According to the telegram, the con
yerted Mongolian is believed to be
headed for San Francisco. Every
steamer and train will be watched by
the detectives.
Washington, June 19-Another
thread was added To the clues in the
Sigel murder case tonight when the
police learned that three days after the
disappearance of Elsie Sigol from New
York a young woman. accompanied by
a Chinamsn answering William Icons
description and another Chinaman and
white woman, registered at Penn
Sylvania avenue hotel
The Quartette appeared to have
spent only a couple of DAYS at the
place. and their Whereabouts after that
Is mystery, A development which Ia
regarded by the authorities as more
important Is the report which the
police received tonight that aside from
the original telegram which purported
TO have been sent by the girl to her
parents, another telegram was sent by
a Chinaman to another Celestial In
New York The police are informed
that the operator can identify the per.
onn uth ha OF oh.
Office of the telegraph company in the
National hotel
Some illlterate person or child ap-
parently wrote the kilograms with the
name of Elsie SlSel and sent from here
TO Paul Sigel on the evening of June
IL, according 10 a statement made to-
dav by Manager Travis OF the Postal
Telegraph company. Detectives have
made search through Chinatown in
an effort to find some trace of VIM.
Leon. but have been unsuccessful.
New York. June 19,-The murder
of Miss Elsie Sigel. nd-daughtcr
of General Franz Sigel, whose body
was found last night crowded into a
trunk In the 'room OF Chinaman, af
ter she had been strangled with
curtain cord, appears to be the most
remarkable case the police have had
TO investigate in many years.
One OF the odd phases of the case is
the failure OF the murdered girls faith
cr. Paul Sigel. TO identify the body as
that OF his daughter, while the girls
mother has declared that the articles
found in the room. where the body
ua l.aIa -
quaintances of Miss Sigel. who have
seen the body OF the murdered girl,
assert that II Is that of Miss Sigel,
and a number of persons have been
found by the police who declare that
the young woman has been friend OF
the Chinaman. William l.. Leon. for
years 1t was stated today that the
girls father had gone 10 Washington
TO bring Elsie home"
Leon who was also known by sew.
eral Chinese names was still unfound
today as was also Chung Sin. who oc
rupled a room adjoining that of Leon
Both rooms are on the fourth floor oil
$50 Eighth avenue, between Forty
seventh and Forty-eighth streets. over
q Chinese restaurant conducted by
Sun Leung The police are search.
ng for Leon, but with scant hope of
lndlng him as II Is believed the mur
Ter was committed possibly as early
As Thursday
Today. the police gave out report
hat Leon and Chung Sin had sailed
aat Friday for Vancouver B. c.. on a
nus OF Panama Precautions have
s.N gi..
It an intermediate point, IL possible.
The police OF Washington have been
asked 10 aid the New York police. by
hiding the original copy OF n telegram
-eceived by the girls parents from
hat city last Saturday saying;
II will be home by the end Of the
week Don't worry"
1t was signed with the name OF
elsie Sigel Miss Sigel had been en-
tagged in missionary work among the /,
OF the city for few years. In
,ehalf of the christianization OF the |
lrientalS The young woman was
bout twentv years of age. This morn
ng. Florence Todd, one OF the mis-
ionarv workers In the Chinese sec |
ion, who Identified Miss SigelS body. |
old the police that the girl and the |
1hinaman had been thrown much to
either for q few years and that Leon
vas greatly enamored of the girl, that i
lie was intensely jealous of her AID |
isliked her to receive the attentions
# other mon. This had caused Miss !
,igel to fear Leon Miss Todd said.
That Leon had other correspondents
han Miss Sigel was discovered, when
etween 1,500 and 1000 letters. main
Y from various women in New York
nd other cities, were found In his
Dom. Among tne number were many
igned Elsie" which were described
" the police as love letters. The con-
cnts OF most Of them were not reveal
d by the police. but in one of them
Elsie" reproached Leon for causing
rouble between her father and her
elf. Just think of the sacrifice |
ave made for you" she wrote in one
sttcr
A note book. belonging to Leon. and
obtaining the names and addresses
( hundreds Of women and girls was
ound
Miss SIgel's shoes and stockings
ierc not found In the room where the
ody was found II is believed she
'as kept a prisoner there and her
ootwear taken from her TO prevent her