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wAh1o,lhhdid III hid rAas6isd his queue. abandoned
his loose blouse and sandals. dressed
neatly In American clothes and even put
aside his Chinese name for it's Anglicized
version, "Wiiliam L. Leon" pursued the
girl with attentions for the last few years.
He went about with her and her mother.
oalled at the house and attracted the COM
B,enk ofneighbors of the Sigels. who didn't
like the idea OF Cinnamon visiting houses
where they lived. -
4 PERSONAL THAT ELSIE DIDN'T READ.
I, The word that came to the Sigel home at
200 .Wadsworh avenue on Friday night
that Elsie's body had been found orumpled
up in a trunk in the room OF the very
Cinnamon the Sigcs had known and
trusted for years was as incredible as II
was monstrvus. Mrs. Sisel had been Ill
and shaken by nervous attacks ever
since Elsje's strange disappearance on
the morning Of Wednesday. June g. She
had q presentiment that Elsie had come to
harm through her Chinese associations,
80 abe, went on Monday, June IA, to Flor
enl. Todd, the mother of the mission
OF 10 Mott street, the Chinatown and
Bowery. Rescue Mission for Girls. and
asked the head Of the mission to advertise
for her daughter.
Miss Todd went across the street to the
red and green restaurant at Mott street,
where cleaning dragons attract the
sightseer at night, and talked to Chu Gain
Who mana ges the Port Arthur for Chi
nese company. 1t was Chu Gain. who was
fond If Elsie and who hated and feared
IelIng Linn. that put a personal in a news
paper which was printed on the morning
Of Tuesday, June IS. 1t read:
-sE. j. Mother very i'll; come home.
dear one" ~
ChulGainhad no desire to appear openly
IN the business, SO he wrote the appea
and sent it by spry Chinese boy who
worked for him. or course there was
no answer; Elsie Sigel had been dead
for five days. Mrs. sigel's nervousness
increased so appreciably that her family
feared she would 60 insane. They hoped
stin that the telegram received from
Washington on the night Of the day Elsie
hft the house in her old clothes was not
lie and that the girl would be found
10 Washington or turn up here. Mrs.
Higei tried TO learn something from Sun
Eeung, who owned the chop suey house
In, Eighth avenue where Elsie was muir
dered.- the same Sun Leung who told the
.poiiSei hast Friday. night. Il 60 down
Chin tow. fin my cousin and melted
iaHay;. but she couldn't reach Sun Leun 6
aud the walters in the chop suey place
would tell her nothing. ~. b., cen -
Then came the detectives. who asked
hes 10 go down to the Morgue and look
Al the fearfully changed body. Mr.. Sigel
tried 10 keep the news away from her,
He-wept down town himself and though
iYeI feared II was the body of his daughter
he ,ceotild not be sure, he said. and did not
want to, GO back home and probably drive
his wife insane unless he was positive.
When he returned home he found that the
detectives had been before him with
-Elsies chain and bangles picked up in
ieung Lim's. room. Mrs. Sigel had
seen The bangles, known them for Elsie's 9
and was in an uncomfortable state Of
nervousness Mr.. Sigel sat with her all
night Friday. She did nothing but moan
and cs,lfor her daughter. In the morning
tlhs had TO -be- taken to. a sanitarium in
Connecticut 2. "-r.-' .. a..
t&N Ma. sfGEL' FINAL 1DENTFIcATIoN.
'anAirl ASisssr coild not bring himself to
believe that the body was Elsie's until
yesterday afternoon but he thought il
best to ask Coroner Harburger for a
permit to remove it from the Morgue
and gi,se'te ~ an undertaken The Coro.
.per Tefured to grant the request until
Mr. Sigel made the identific alton posi-.
tive. Some question has been raised
( by a morning newspaper which quoted
Mrs: Franz SigeI. .Jr.. as saying tina
the body could not pos sibly be that Of
her niece. and the Coroner demanded
absolute Identification from the father
before acting.
- Mrf Sigel sent for his brother Franz
nnd they travelled down to Police Head
Quarters where they talked Ito Capt.
Carey for an hour or more about Elsie 4
friendship, for Leung linl and the re-
sefnbiance of the body in the Morgue to
Elsie as they had seen her last, Carey
detailed Detectives Wood and Fogarty
to accompany them to the Morgue for
another examination Of the body. Paul
Sigel and his brother sent for Elsie 8
brother Reginald and for Mabel, the
cousin. --..
is.Sigei forced himself to scrutinize the
hotiy after a great deal OF effort. He
remembered that Elsie had a defective
nolar in her left upper jaw. the only
,bad tooth she had, so far as he could
recall. The teeth of the dead girl were
white and perfect with one exception. a
molar in the left upper jaw. MIR. Sigel
remembered that there were several
marks on Flsie's body which We're well
| known to the family On the body he
| found these pecuIiarities. For the first
/, time he brought himself to examine the
hands. They were ,Elsie's az lie re-
membered them.
+, ThsJdetectives brought the lawn waist,
the corset cover and corset-all the
clothing on the body when the police
found ft-and showed them 10 Mabel
Sigel She had stayed ov night with
I Elsie frequently and was familiar with
every article OF her cousins wardrobe.
She identified the waist. the corset and the
corset cover absolutely There could he
no question about II.
NO MISTAKE ABOUT THE JEwELRY.
D., With the detectives they went up to
. the West Forty-seventh str eet station,
where were Elsie's few trinkets that had
! been left behind in the litter of the room
+, by the Cinnamon in their headlong rush
: to got away. There was a pinoe-nez, a
!: bit of gold chain with tiny gold balls at
F.! taohed Sa.silver bangled bracelet and the
3 pin marked sP. s. CO. MIR. Sigel said with
out any further hesitation that the eye
! glasses were his dau ghter's and that there
could be no mistake about the bangles;
The knew them too well. Mabel SigeI re-
/. membered the gold chain with its gold
ornaments and had already identified
|, the pin as one she rceiv we'd from the Pack
.ard Commercial School and gave TO Elsie
because her cousin liked it.