The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-23
Relates How Body Was
Disposed Of by
Chinese Friend

New York, June 23-The distric
attorneys Office gave out a statemen
today. to some extent changing In
official published reports. giving th'
alleged circumstantial details o
Chung Sins confession In the Slge
murder case, According TO this state
ment. the story told by Chung was
not that he actually saw the murde
committed. or that he helped to binC
up the trunk after Elsie SigeP'
body had been placed in it. He sait
he went 10 his room about 1 o'clocl
that afternoon 10 lie down, and tha
Leon came in soon afterward, and saio
that Elsie was dead Chung asked
Leon what had happened. and that tho
latter replied that Elsie had bitter
her tongue and bled 10 death" Chung
said he went into the room and saw
The body. He felt the murdered girls
hands and found them cold. Then he
went out, and when he came back he
found Leon throwing clothing out oi
the trunk which he kept under the
bed Chung said he went out again
and returned and found the trunk
bound with a rope in the room, and
the body OF Elsie gone He supposed
that Leon had placed the body in the
trunk.
Yam Wick Nam. the interpreter
who was present at the examination
of Chung Sin by Assistant District At
torney Ward yesterday, declared to-
day there was no truth in the state
ment that Chung Sin had said he wit
messed the actual killing of Elsie 81
gel, by peeping through keyhole
from his room adjoining and by look
ing over the transom. Van Wick Nam
said, on the contrary. that Chung Sin
absolutely maintained, throughout the
examination, that he was not Wit
ness of the crime.
Van Wick Mans account of Chung
Sins story is that the Chlnaman said
he was in his own room over the res
taurant when Leon entered. and said;
The girl is dead"
New York, June 23.-Detalls of
just how Elsie Sigel. granddaughter
of General Sigel a Chinese mission
airy. was brutally slain in the room
of Leon Ling, became known today
after Chung Sin. his roommate. had
been subjected to thirty hours of the
third degrees"
Inspector McCafferty of the detec-
tive bureau, Captain Carey OF the
homicide bureau and a half dozen de-
tcctiyes who had been working on the
case, surrounded the tired Chinaman
in the Office OF Assistant District At
torney Ward at the time the grewsome
tales were revealed, Suddenly Mr..
A. IL. H. hi
finger at him and crying in a loud
voice:
You killed Elsie Sigel,"
II did not"
You've got her ring exclaimed
Captain Carr.
81 got no ring of Elsie" replied the
Chinaman
Then Mr.. Ward fired one question
after another at the Chinaman, going
into the murder in every phase
when did you last see Elsie?" ask
cd Mr Ward.
81 see her that morning" =.
"Where?"
In Icons room
Were you in the room?"
NO"
Where were you?"
I'm my own room. next to Icons"
What time was this?"
1T was about half-past twelve,
noon"
How do you know that?"
Because ! went down to the restau-
rant ald know ii was the time"
What were you doing in Your room
wnen you first found out Elsie was in
Leon's room?"
Il was rubbing my hands, washing
the mud"
What day was this?"
"Wednesday. juno 9th"
When had you seen Elsie before
that day?'
1T was the night before"
On that night Chung Sin and Leon
Ling were at party given at the
girls home
How did you know Elsie was in
Leon's room?" pursued Mr. Ward.
II heard a noise
What did you do2"
81 go to the kcyhole and see her
there"
Through the keyhole?"
That's IT."
What did YOU see2"
IL had heard some noise. then when
look sec Elsie lying on the bed
You waited TO see what was going
on?''
sure"
What was IL you saw them"
II see Elsie lying there and she
was scuffllng with Leon. He lie with
his hands on Elsie, like op her neck
and she trv 10 get away a.
What did you do them y
Il get up on a chair and look over
the transom so | see better"
What happened2'
Elsie try TO cry, guess. Leon
had a handkerchief IN her mouth. I
see blood on the handkerchief"
Chung was told 10 show how Leon
neld nc handkerchief 10 the girls
mouth. He placed mis- hand at his