Evening star., 1909-06-28
WHEN GIRL WAS?
Vengeance Wreaked on Pair by
Common Enemy, Is Possibility.
CHUNG TELLS OTHER DETAILS
Describes Attempt Of Leon and Con-
federate to Dispose Of Trunk
Containing Girls Body.

dUy Trace Whatever CI I<cOH lLlUS Cduccu
the police to give some attention to the
theory strongly revived today that the
missing man may not have killed Elsie
Sigel and that he was himself the vic
tim Of the same hand that killed the GIRL
This line of reasoning necessitates the
rejection of the story told by Chung Sin,
who said he had seen Leon In the room
over the Sth avenue restaurant where
Miss Sigers dead body lay. The authori-
ties declared that Chuns's statements
have shown discrepancies with known
facts in several particulars.
Schenectady Baggage Wanted.
In considering the possibility that Leon
was killed, 1t Is regarded as probable
that his body was placed in a trunk. as
was the girls This has drawn renewed
attention to the baggage checked to Sche-
nectady, N. Y, near where Chung Sin
was found, and rechecked by Chinaman
from Schenectady to Cleveland. Ohio.
What about the theory that Leon is
dead?' Police Inspector McCafferty was
asked today.
Well, II Leon is dead we have under
arrest one OF the birds that killed him,
and we can lay our hands on another In
five minutes" he replied.
A story that Elsie Sigel might have
from statements In an anonymous let
ter which Louis Fook. q Chinaman who
has given some assistance to the police
In their wor kon the case. today reported
having received.
Fook says that the writer OF the let
ter. which Is in Chinese, declares that
Miss Sigel and Leon Wing were seen
In washington on the afternoon of
June 8. The authorities were not In
clined to place much credence in the
statements -
Trunk In Harlem.
Central Office detectives were searching
last night for the driver Of q big auto
mobile and a Harlem hack driver, who
are wanted to tell what they know about
the way Elsie SigePs body was carried
around this city supposedly by Leon and
q confederate and then taken from Har-
lem to Newark. In the light of the reve-
lations of Saturday. when 1t was learned
that the body had been taken to Newark
few hours after the murder. Chung Sin.
Icons roommate. who is In the house
OF detention. was induced to part with q
few more Of what he tries to convince
the police are the details of the crime.
According to Chung Sin. Leon had three
or four confederates in the murder. These
men were all members Of the Gee Gong
Tong, OF which Leon was an influential
member. and through their membership
| AZ SNC SOClcly luSy were pcISudOCu W
lend Leon a helping hand in trying to
dispose Of the body and In aiding Leon
and his principal confederate to escape.
The police have the names Of all these
men. They expect to make several ar
rests in connection with the case in the
next few days.
Icons chief confederate helped him in
an attempt to dispose of the trunk. The
police have examined the cousin OF this
man. and from him have learned the de-
tails Of the effort to get rid of the evi-
dences OF the crime. According to what
the police have learned, this man not
only helped try to get rid Of the trunk
but carried the dispatch to the Sigel fam
lily from Harlem to Washington and sent
1t from that city to the Sigel home.
The dispatch was written in a Chinese
aundry in Harlem by Leon on a brank
obtained from nearby telegraph ONCE.
Washington was identified as being in
Icons writing.
Confederate Gets Automobile.
Chung Sin told the police that after
Leon killed Elsie he sent for this con-
federate and instructed him to get an
automobile. Then. while the confed-
crate was gone for the automobile Leon
packed the body in the trunk and his
own and Elsie's clothes in three suit
cases.
This comedies with the knowledge the
police already had that Leon had three
large suit cases in his room. These
suit cases have not been seen since the
murder.
The motor car having been brought to
the door, Leon and his Chinese confed-
crate carried the trunk and the suit
cases downstairs and put them in the
automobile.
All this happened within an hour after
the murder. while Sun Leung and his
employees were still asleep after their
nights work in the restaurant. The
police are satisfied that Leung did not
know OF the movements OF the trunk
as he was the one who gave the first
tional reason that Leung had $4,000 in
vested in his restaurant and he could
not afford to lose that money by help
ing to conceal the murder Of Elsie Sigel.
The automobile. with the trunk, the
suit cases and the two Cinnamon, was
driven to a laundry in Harlem. There
the load was deposited and the motor
car returned to its station.
Leon at once went out and got
telegraph blank on which he wrote the
dispatch to the Sigels assuring them
that Elsie was all right and would be
home Sunday. The confederate took this
dispatch and went to Washington. from
where he sent 1t to the Sikels.
This Chinanan, who had been well
supplied with money by Leon and other
Chinese. then disappeared.
Took Trunk to Newark.
Meanwhile Leon worked unsuccessfully
to persuade the laundryman to let the
trunk remain in his place. The laundry
man, though a fellow member Of the Gee
Gong Tong. would not consent, and at
about IL O'Clock on the night OF June 0
Leon got hack and started for New
ark, where he thought he could induce
his friend Lai Sing to keep the trunk.
The three suit cases were left in the
laundry Leon reached Newark about
am. on June 10 and got the trunk up
stairs to Lai Sings restaurant with the
help Of the hack driver and I.ai Sing.
Finding that Lai Sing would not have
the trunk left In his restaurant for any
hack and drove around Newark for sew
eral hours. trying to find some place
where he could leave the trunk. As no
one would have 1t, he brought 1t back to
this city in James HAlstead's hack. He
started from Newark about 1850 am,
arriving at the house In 9Th avenue be-
tween and 3 pm. cleverly calculating
the hour Of his arrival so that Sun Leun6
and his employees would be in China
town and would know nothing OF the ar
rival Of the trunk.
of the automobile that took the trunk to
Harlem, nor have they found the driver
Of the hack In which Leon went to New
ark. They refuse to divuIse the name of
Icons confederate, ~ he reads and
speaks English as well as Leon, and they
do not want him to know how accurate
their information Is. For the same rea-