The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-23
Chung Sings Story Of How elsie slsel
Met Her Death in the Room
OF Leon Ling at Noon
on June 9Th.
WAS CHoKED TO DEATH
confessor Denies Having Had Any
thing to do With the Murder
and Calls Upon the
Heather Gods.

NEW YORK. June 2a.-"Look for
Leon Ling, disguised as a woman,
hiding In some secret subterranean
haunts Of your Chinatown, where the
Celestials conceal the females OF their
race" is the latest order sent out by
tne New York police in the search for
the murderer. This order followed the
receipt OF letter today by Assistant
District Attorney Ward, saying that
Leon came to America with Chinese
theatrical troupe and was a female
impersonator. He played parts Of
women for years, the letter said, and
is SO expert in assuming the role, that
ne had deceived his most intimate
Chinese friends.
NEW YORK, June 2S.-Chung Sin,
room mate of Leon Ling early today
was taken to Icons room by detect
ives and his Asiatic composure gave
way for moment. AS they went up
stairs to Icons room he shook. He
again recited the way he saw Leon
| kill the girl.
| The ashes found in the stove IN
Icons room are believed to be the
girls clothes. Sin was taken back and
q fresh shift of detectives renewed
the third degree" He confirmed the
jealousy motive opinion advanced b,
4 the police They fight about girl
be said, me see fight. Fight, fight
/ fight, all time. Leon tell me hate
Chugain. Chugain tell me. he hate
Leon"
Not for anything would the round.
faced Chinaman admit he; helped
Leung strangle Elsie. He snarled like
teased cat when Police Captain
Carey shook fist in his face and
| charged him with twisting the cord
around her neck. All that he knew, he
repeated many times, was what he
saw as he peered fearfully through a
hole in the door between his room
and Leung's and what Leung told
him after the girls body had been hid
out of sight.
He was told that Leon had been
captured and had laid the blame upon
his (Chung's) shoulders. This, to
| gether with persistent hammering al
the prisoner, brought the confession.
| From the mans story 1t is appar.
ent that Elsie Sigel first was drug
| ged with choloroform, then choked to
| death. She was killed apparently on
| the night of June g. Chung says that
early in the morning of June 10 he
heard strange noise in Leon's room
adjoining his and looking over the
transom, saw the girl lying on the bed
with a bloody towel over her mouth
! He passed through the room, he said
to go out to wash his hands, and as he
/ did SO felt of the body which was still
warm. He went down to the restaur
ant below, then returned to the room
Leon meantime had covered the body
with blanket UP to the chin and had
pulled the trunk to the middle of the
floor. The trunk. Leon was emptying
preparatory to placing the body there
The rope with which the body was
bound was lying on the floor at the
time, according to Chung. Once again
4 be went down stairs, said Chung
where he remained until Leon coul6
call him. When he entered the room
the body was not visible, having beer
bound with the rope and placed in the
4 trunk
Elsie Sigel, the girl was on the
bed" said the Chinaman, while his
hearers drew closer in Mortified sus
i pense, and Leon he was bending
over her. A handkerchief was stick
ing out of her mouth and | saw blood
on it. She was fighting with him, bu
he only pressed the handkerchief hard
er into her mouth Finally she strug
gled no more and lay still and Leor
looked down upon her." Those wht
heard this recital were almost over
come with the thought that Chun,
could have stood by in an adjoinins
room without raising hand to pre-
vent 1t. In one version of the China
mans confession it is said he admit
ted helping Leon tie the trunk, al
though denying he aided him in plac
ing the body in it. He also admitte'
giving most of the money he borrowe,
from Chu Gan to Leon to aid the lat
ter in his flight from New York.
Ling is Caught Again,
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-A CHI
naman said to answer the description
| of Leon Ling was arrested here tc