Evening star., 1909-06-24
HANDLED DYING GIRL
Chung Sin, Caught in Lies,
: Tells New Story.
DENIED AID TO MURDERER
Gave 5000 to Leon, But Would Not
Help to Conceal Crime.
INTERPRETER TAKES A HAND
INTERPRETER TAKES A HAND
Warns Roommate of Fugitive That
ALI Cinnamon Will Shun Him if
he Conceals Anything.

you. l tell you they will not. There
Is not Chinaman in the world will ever
speak to You or shake hands with YOU
! again unless you tell us all you know
about the murder of Elsie Sigel, and tell
the truth
Tell the truth or you will never be
received within the doors Of Chinese
society again. 1 tell you this, and ]
know"
Quietly and Internationally, Quang Wick
| Nam, the Chinese interpreter, said this
to Chung Sin at the house of detention
yesterday, when Icons roommate was
once more on the grill. Capt. Carey
| and Assistant District Attorney Ward
found that the soft-spoken old man had
accomplished in his quiet manner what
their aggressive tactics had failed in.
| Chung Lets in Light.
Chung Sin, worn down physically and
mentally, quietly assured of ostra cism by
his own race, could not face that possi-
bility, and allowed another delicate thread
| of truth to find it's way from his sys-
tenn.
| Il went into the room,' he said, while
| the body was still lying on the bed |
felt of the body and 1t was not yet
| Then Chung broke down and filled in
one of the two links missing from the
chain he had forged about Leon twenty
fou: hours before.
| He had failed to tell how Elsie Sigel
| happened to be in Icons room, on the
top floor of 7s2 sth avenue. the morn
ing she was murdered and her dead
BODY thrown into trunk. He had said
he did not know.
But yesterday he was able to remem-
| Der, after the interpreter had had the
heart-to-heart talk with him, that Leon
had told him he had sent for the girl
| that he had made her promise the night
| before, when he was thrown out Of the
| Sigel home because he was drunk, that
she would come to his room that morn
ing.
Says Leon Told Him.
Leon told you that?" asked Capt. Ca
rey.
| Yes" Chung admitted.
| when? That morning?"
! Yes, before 1 went away"
Until this admission was made the po-
| lice had nothing more than conjecture
to go on in trying to explain the girls
presence in the Chinaman's room.
Chuns's confession fits in perfectly with
other facts that are known and proves
beyond doubt that the murder of the
| girl was coldly premeditated
| Further confessions wrung from Chung
bear this out. When he was examined in
| the district attorneys office he had hard
| work to remember anything about the
relations between the Sigel girl and Leon
except that he said he thought Leon was
Jealous Of Chu Gain, the manager of the
| Port Arthur restaurant.
Yesterday he remembered that Leon
| had told him of his love for the girl and
of her refusal of his plea that she marry
him; that she told him that she did not
love him and tried to make him promise
| to let her alone.
| Il was mad at her." Chung said Leon
| told him.
But in spite Of threats Chung persisted
| in declaring his ignorance of Icons
whereabouts, and finally Capt. Carey and
| Mr.. Ward were compelled to believe the
! Chinaman was telling the truth on that
point.
His whereabouts is the great question
| that still confronts the police, and Deputy
| Commissioner Woods, the executive head
| of the army of detectives who are scour-
| ing every Chinese quarter within hun
| dred miles of New York and calling for
the assistance of the police of every city
| and hamlet in America, are forced to ad-
| init that the question is as far from
| being answered as it was when the crime
| was discovered.
No Trace of Missing Man.
All that is definitely known is that
| Leon went from this city to Washington
So much was admitted yesterday by Mr.
Ward, who added that all efforts to trace
Leon beyond the capital had failed
Mr.. Ward advances the theory that in
stead of trying to escape to the west or
south the Chinaman may have gone to
Baltimore or Philadelphia and obtained en-
ployment as cook on some tramp steam
| ship or sailing vessel, but Mr.. Ward ad-
mltted that there was no positive evidence
to support such theory
| One thing, though, is certain-that Leon
did not escape In the guise of woman.
Some of Elsie Sigel's clothes are missing,
but traces of cloth ashes in a stove in
g or halI fx
them, and after moments thought the
police dismissed a suggestion that he
might thus have tried to disguise him
self A Chinaman in an American girls $
clothes would be quite the most remark
able sight to be found on a railroad train
| A theory was invented yesterday after
noon that Sin had killed both Elsie and
Leon and that after putting Elsie in the
trunk he had concealed Icons body in the
cellar. Detective FOgarty of the central
office went to the Eighth avenue house
and made a thorough search from cellar
to garrett with the expected result-no
| trace of Leon.
Chu Gain Letters From Leon.
The only material assistance Chung
gave the police in last nights examina-
ton, as far as could be learned, beyond
proving the motive for the crime and
explaining why the Sigel girl went to
Icons room, was his Identification of
| two threatening letters received by Chu
Gain short time before the murder as
having been written by Leon.
| 1t was known that Gain had received
one such letter but it now appears that
there were two, both threatening him
with death if he did not cease his at
tentions to Elsie Sigel.
! One of the thirty letters written to
| Chu Gain by Elsie Sigel and seized in
| his room over the Port Arthur restau-
rant was made public yesterday 1t
| shows a close friendship between them,
but nothing more.
| My dear friend it began. Il have
! been lying awake all night trying to
| think what you meant by what you said
to me during the performapce last night
mean by artificial? l want you to tell
not talk about it in the theater Did
you like The Man from Home? | will
see you tomorrow the next day sure
| Your little friend, ELSIE"
Chu Gain also told the police in de-
| tail of a quarrel between him and Leon
recently in the Sigel house. He said
he went there to call and found Leon
with Elsie. Leon, he declared up
| braided the girl for paying more atten-
| ton to Gain than she did to him, and
soon left the house, muttering threats
| gainst them both. That he said was
only a short time before the night be-
| fore the murder, when Leon was or
dered out of the house.
Chung Wabbles in His Story.
Chung claimed to be unable to give
| the poliee any further inflammation on