The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-30
CLOSING In
ON LEON LING
Police May Catch tie
Chinaman.
THE GORDON IS TIGHIENEr
Sharp Watch Kept on Towns d
New Jersey.
Fifty Detectives are 1t Work Ansna
the ceiessials aaAA slayer Of
Elsie sigel May he
Captured.
he GORDON IS TIGHTENn

Chandler, Okla, June s9-Sh<yz
Martin tonight asserted that ha kh<ts y
custody Leon Ling. A Chinese how In
jail answers Leon Ling.s deA S7ption.
the sherin says. The chiu@TS gefuses
to talk other than to say "a soon win
be released.
New York. June 7s.--The police cor-
don thrown about Paterson, Passaic.
Hackensack and other neighboring
towns In New Jersey. Is Tightening
around a number of Cinnamon among
whom the police hope to md trace Of
Leon Ling. the supposed murderer Of
Elsie sigsi
Fifty OF the best detectives Of In
spector MoCaffsrtys star have been
sent into this district and the concen-
tratfon Of 80 many Of them In one
spot lends color to the belief that some
important information Is In the hands
OF the police,
information is at hand tonight
covery of the murder of Elsie siEel
slsven days ago, definitely establishes
that Leon Ling must have had accom-
plices and that, though q telegram
signed with his name and In his writ
ing. was sent from Washington. he
could not have been there on the date
on which the message was sent. The
police have also accounted In detail
for the movements of the body. as 10
was hurried hither and thither In q
panic. after the crime. up to the mo.
ment OF its discovery In the bed room
Of Leon Ling.
But though the detective force has
a dozen men In neighboring towns OF
New Jersey and Inspector McCsnerty
reiterates tonight his confidence that
the murderer will be caught there 10
nothing known publicly by which u
can be inferred that his arrest 10 any
nearer than 1t has been at any time
during the past wees. !.
Clear UP Trunk Moyemenf..
The police have definitely and clear.
ly. stah1ished that the trunk was
carried from the Eign tn avenue house
Ia which the body Was found TO Chi
nese laundry ut No. $40 West i26ta
street and thence to Newark, " j.,
whence II was, returned 10 the room oil
Leon Ling where II was discovered. II
has been shown, too, that Lima was
personally busied In moving the trunk
about.
II seems clear that to have been ~
the various places mentioned Leon
Ling could not have spared the time
for q trip to Washington. Those res
ceiving him and the trunk all showed
Suspicious foreknowiedge If his COM
ing.
The facts as to the movement Of the
body In New York, new added to the
details previously unearthed. concern
Ing the trip to Newark, N. J.. came
out through Arthur Logan. an express
man, who said today that on June .,
the day Of the murder. lean, light
colored Chinaman. agreeing perfectly
with the description OF Leon Ling en-.
gagged him to cart a trunk from the
top floor OF 1872 Eighth avenue to q
Chinese laundry, which the EXPRESS
mans book entry shows as wah Kee,
370 West 126th street.
When Logan entered the Eighth
avenue house. he found Ling waiting
for him at the top of the fourth flight
of stairs, he says Ling's room was
dark. all the shades being drawn. In
fact he did not see the trunk until he
stumbled on II. but he noticed that tha
door to the adjoining room was open,
and that four Cinnamon who wore
queus were moving about In obscurity
This is the door that Chung Sin, Leon
Ling's intimate. has sworn was closed.
Logan lifted the trunk. with the
help of his regular assistant. He
noticed that It was stoutly roped.
At p. m. he got to the Harlem adj
dress. There he found wah Kee wait-
ing for him.
Was Expecting Him.
The Junk" said Wah. "allee light.
Fifty cents" There was no hesita-
ton about accepting the trunk. wah
Kee ordered 1t carried through the
laundry to the kitchen and sleeping
room in the rear, where Logan left It.
Nearly eight hours later. a we'll
dressed japanese, as the starter of the
New York taxicab then thought him
to be. called At the company's branch
office at the corner of I2sth Street
and Eighth Avenue and asked how
much 1t would cost him for a taxicah
to Newark. He was told s12. and in
structed the driver, Martin Luria, to
call at Wah Lees laundry for some
hody" When Luria got to the laundry
at 1888 p. m. he found that the
heavier part of his fare was a stoutly
corded trunk. Leon Ling. for so Luria
subsequently, identified him. was pae-
ing the street nsrvously while the
trunk was being lifted to the front
seat. and insisted that 1t be tightly
dashed lest II fall and break open.
Luria drove to the restaurant at 81
Market Street. Newark. and when he
arrived there at p. m, Ii Sing, the
proprietor. met him at the door and
helped him carry the trunk to a rear
room.
The foregoing facts came out for
the first time today through Luria.
His narrative dovetails with the testi.
mony OF James Halstead. a Newark
cabman. who took the bc4y and Leon
Ling back to the Eighth Avenue room
on the afternoon of the same day.
There the body stayed until found by
the police. whether Chung Sin lied
to save his own skin or that of his pal.
1t appears clear that he knows q great
deal more than he has yet told.
Brother In st. Louis.
Kansas City. June 29.-Inspector OF
Detectives Edward Boyle here today
declared that he had information from
q Chinese source that Leon Ling. al
legged murderer of Elsie Sigel, has a
brother living in st. Louis. Inspector
Boyle wired the New York and ST