Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-07-01
CHUNG REACTS
SIGEL MURDER
TAKEN TO ROOM WHERE BODY
WAS FOUND, HE SHOVE HOW
GIRL WAS KILLED.
TELLS OF THE DEATH STRUGGLE
Prisoner Admits He Saw Crime Com.
mitted Without Offering Rests
tanee-0enles Taking Part
In Killing.

In Killing.
New York City.-In the dim, close
room of Leon Ling, with its grin.
ming josses and it's picture Of the
Madonna gazing down on the scene,
where the dead body of Este Sigel
was found packed in a trunk last Fri.
day. Chung Sin, roommate of Leon
Ling Wednesday re.enacted the trag-
edy of the girl, as he saw it through
the keyhole of his room adjoining.
Stolidly smoking a cigarette and &C.
casionally cracking his yellow yisage
into a sardonic smile, he described
the strangling of the girl as she lay on
the bed in the shadow of the red can.
opy, but declared he had nothing to
do with the killing or that he had any
knowledge of the whereabouts of his
missing countryman.
District Attorney Jerome and the
police are confident, however, that
Chung has not told all he knows and
announce their intention to keep at
him with the third degree" until he
tells all.
After his partial confession to Dis
trict Attorney Jerome Tuesday,
Chung was kept under a cross fire of
questions all through the night. Early
Wednesday, with Captain Carey of the
homicide bureau, half dozen OF his
detectives, and Assistant District At
torney Ward, the badgered Chinese
was led to the house in Eighth ave-
nue..
Shivers In Death Room,
AS he was led shackled to a detec-
tive up the long, rickety stairs to the
top floor of the tenement, his Asiatic
composure gave way for a moment
and he shivered violently. He soon
recovered, however, and entered the
musty Oriental room-tightly closed
since the discovery of the body-with
an air of nonchalence. He was close
ly followed by the police and old Quad
Yick Nam, the wizened interpreter.
you killed Elsie Sigel!" shouted
Carey as soon as the door was closed.
me no kill. You find Leon. He
do It," shrieked Chung Sin in rage,
as he covered in a corner of the room.
Then he took refuge in his stock an
swer: mo unlestand English"
"Why do you lie like that?" shouted
Carey, and he jumped for the China
man, clutched his collar as if to choke
the life out of him.
Then Chung wilted.
me tell truth. Me tell truth now"
he shrieked.
Depicts Revolving Scene.
Then in answer to question after
question he gave the minute details
OF the revolving tragedy which has
shocked the community.
The yellow man calmly admitted he
had seen Leon strange the mission.
airy girl to death with her own hand
kerchief as she lay on the bed with
out raising hand to help her or to
call for help.
81 heard scuffling," related Chung
as he puned MS cigarette, that MADE
me wake up. The sound came from
Icons room and l got up and look
through the keyhole."
Tell us exactly what you saw in
that ROOM" yelled Carey.
"Elsie sigel, the girl, was on the
bed" stated Chung, quietly. Leon
was bending over her. He seemed to
be fighting her or play fighting her.
saw a handkerchief with blood on II
sticking in the girls mouth. Wren
saw the blood 1 knew it was real fight
ing. She fought hard and he was
pressing the handkerchief into her
MOUTH Finally she didn't fight any
more. She lay still. Then Leon stood
up and looked around the room. Then
he looked back at the girl"
For a few minutes no questions
we're asked, as the hardened police Of
ficers tried to grasp the enOrmity Of
the thing this yellow man was telling