The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-21

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NEW YORK, June 2O.-Leon Ling,
the Chinanan suspected Of numbering
Elsie Sigel may never be found. The
police, according 10 an announcement
made tonight, regard the search for him
as well nigh hopeless. However, the
mutilated body of the girl left behind
i'll trunk in his room will not be bur
led in the potters' field. Paul Sieel
the father, claimed and positively iden-
tlhed the body at the morguc tonight,
admitting for the first time that the
victim was his daughter Elsie.
The girls mother. now in a sani-
tariu'n, had previously identified tho
Jewelry; another woman bad Identified
the undeTcloJhlng, and relatives had
SAID the murdered girl was Elsie Sigel,
granddaughter of Gen. Franz Sigcl,
Until tonight, however the father had
maintained silence. But after con.
terence at police headquarters this aft
crnoon. he visited the moTcue, accom-
panied by Franz Sigel, brother: Reei-
maid, his son, and Mabel Sigel, cou.
sin Of The victim
Positive identification.
First the clothing on the body was
examined by Maboi Sigel.
Elsie, said the girl, as she OK
amined it, fused to wear a peculiar
whitehcadcd PIN
\ detective ran his fingers through
the clothing aud in n moment held up
whltc-headed pin. Mabel Sgel
nodded.
s. Elsie wore that, - she said
Tho face was uncovered and the
l.
but Mabel was quick to note the teeth
"Those are Elsie IS teeth she said.
land her hands, too
Paul Sigcl nodded his head ahirma-
lively as each new feature was brought
out 10 strengthen the Identification
Coroner Hamburger asked the father
If he was certain that the body was
shat Of his daughter.
IS Are you satisfied III every way of
the accuracy OF the Identification he
was asked.
''I am satisfied said the man in
broken voice, us he was led away.
Franz SigeI made arrangements for
the immediate removal Of the body and
for the funelaI,
Means Of Death Mystery,
Elsie Siecl's stomach will be aDalyzcd
at Columbia university. While the au-
topsy determined that death probably
was due TO asphyXiation, whether she
WIS cholled, smothcrcd under a pillow
or drugged, bound with ropes and left
To die horribly in the trunk. IS as much
q mystery as is the whereabouts Of
Leon Ling and his pal.
Chu Gain, manager Of the Port Ar
thur restaurant, who was detained last
night as a witness, was held today
without bail until Tuesday, He has ad
mjtted that he knew Elsie Sigel well
nd b1I bp nj
Ling aud that both he (Chu Gaip) and
the girl had been threatened with death.
Mrs, T., Smith. who processes TO have
known the family well. suggests that
the victim is not Elsie SIgel, but mys~
ferrous "Nellic' who had figured in
Leon Ling's love affairs. Mrs. Smith
holds that it is possible she and the
Chinaman were preparing to elope when
'NclIie' appeared, created a scene and
was killed. The substitution Of the
clothing and the packing Of the body IN
the trunk complete this feminine Sher-
lock Holmes IS theory.
Chinese at Sigel Home.
During the afternoon two Cinnamon
called at the Sigel home in the Bronx,
ignorant Of Mrs. Sigel s removal TO a
sanitarium. and asked TO see ''our
mother angel name which Mrs.
Sigel earned because Of her mission
work among the Chinese.
One said he was Cbu sam, brother
of Chu Gain, who is under arrest
Before going to the morgue. Mabel
SigeI said Elsie had bceu III love with
an army man in Wyoming. She read
extracts from letters which she said
had been written by this man TO Elsie.
al of which were couched IN affection.
ate words and were signed, "Your old
sweetheart, Howard,
Sho declined to say where the army
man was stationed.
Notwithstanding tho publicity given
the case, Mrs Todd. the mission worker
who has known all along of Leon Ling S
infatuation for Elsie, docs not care to
talk Of the efficacy OF Chinese conver-
sions to Christianity, and Captain Carey
of the bureau Of bomicidcs will not per,
nit the mass of letters found iumbled
with Bibles and pictures OF ballet girls
in that strange room to be published or
even their contents indicated.
The mission in Chinatown where Elsie
Sigel taught has been closed,