Evening star., 1909-06-30
WOMEN AIDED LEON
Seven Cinnamon Had Guilty
knowledge of Crime.
ATTEMPT TO BURY BODY
Trunk Containing Elsie Sigels
Corpse Taken to Laundry.
BALKED BY ROCK FOUNDATION
Driver Saw Four orientals in Fugi-
tive's Roonl-Leon Transferred
Through Missionaries.

body Of Elsie Sigel the day following
her murder has resulted in the i111plca-
tion of seven Cinnamon, all. while not
actually accused of having had hand in
the killing fthe young woman, sus-
aected of having knowledge of the crime
and of the efforts of Leon Ling to dis
pose of the body
Only one OF the seven, Chung Sin, is in
custody Of the others, Wah Lee. the
Iaundryman to whose place in 126th street
the trunk was first taken. has disap-
peared, and Lee Sing, the restaurant
keeper in Newark is under surveillance.
The four Cinnamon who were in the
room adjoining that in which the trunk
stood when the expressman called to re-
move it to Wah Lees laundry have not
been identified. Logan. the expressman,
VIII be taken to the house of detention
to see if he can identify Chung Sin.
Icons roommate, a. one of the quartet.
The police and district attorney are now
satisfied that Chung Sin has tricked them
at almost every point. and that In his
account of what he beheld In the room
adjoining his Immediately after the kill
ing what lie concealed is vastly more
important than what he has revealed.
Leon Aided by Woman.
The police learned yesterday that two
white women. HleilBtiS vi ttlC CLASS "iio
call themselves Chinatown missionaries.
helped Leon in his attempt to cover up
the traces of the murder of Elsie Sigel.
These two women went to the real es-
tate agent who leased the storeroom to
Yung Wah i'll which he had his laundry.
at No $40 West 126th street, and got him
to transfer the lease to Yung kee.
Yung Wah is a brother of Yung Dat, a
former partner of Leon. and Yung Wah
halppJ n n GiSrnSn of the trunk
IN which Elsie's body was packed. When
the laundry had been mutilated In an In
effectua attempt to get rid of the trunk.
Yung Wah hurriedly sold out to his cous-
IN, Yung Kee, and disappeared. and the
two white women, friends of Iung Wah
and Yung Dat. persuaded the agent to
transfer the lease.
Leon sent his confederate out from the
house in Sth avenue Immediately after
the murder was committed to get some
one to take away the trunk. He sent 1t
by an expressman at 45th street and sth
avenue to Yung Wah's laundry because
Yung Wah was brother of Yung Dat
Then Leon and his confederate got an
automobile and the two Cinnamon, with
Icons three suit cases. in Gne of which
was Elsie's clothing. hurried on ahead to
be al the laundry to receive the trunk.
They told Yung Wah that they had to
get rid of the trunk and went down into
the cellar and tore up the floor to see
if the trunk could be buried But the
mouse Is DUllI Oh fOck anu lhCS louiu
find no place for a grave.
Leon Left Traces in Laundry.
Leon then gave Yung Wah the money
to have a new floor put in the cellar and
proceeded to dispose Of the other traces.
E,lsie's clothes. the police believe, were
burned in the laundry stove. But Leon.
in his haste, overlooked a pasteboard box,
in which Elsie had once brought some
small articles to Icons room and which
he had used in packing UP her clothes
This box furnishes indisputable proof
that Leon was at the laundry. IT was
found in the working room of the laun-
dry, and on it was written Eisie's name
and address. This is the box which the
police took to headquarters, and which
has caused so much conjecture to the
nature OF the evidence found in the laun-
dry
The police lock on the door of the laun-
dry cellar has also caused much mysti-
fication. 1t was put there that the new
flooring might not be disturbed any
change made in the conditions of the old
flooring showing how it had been torn up.
The relative of Yung Wah and a fellow
member o fthe Gee Gong Tong who con-
fessed 10 the police Icons maneuvers
with the trunk in Harlem told also OF
Yung Wah's difficulty in getting rid OF
the laundry Yang Wah decided at once
that this city was an unsafe place for
him.
He was able to find a cousin who would
take the laundry off his hands, but then
met stumbling block in the form of the
agent of the building. To overcome the
agents objections to a transfer of the
lease Yung Wah resorted to two mis-
sionaries." friends of his and Yung Dat.
These. two women went to the agent and
persuaded him to consent to the transfer
of the lease to Yung kee.
Yung Family Deeply Involved.