The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-19

missionary work among the Chinese.
said that he knew a young white
woman by sight only who was d mis-
sionary worker among the Chinese
and he thought the name was Slgel.
] The house is at No 7S2 Eighth ave-
nue., in the tenderloin district. Sun
Leung, the proprietor, brought about
the revelation of the crime. He noted
a peculiar odor and fearing someone
had committed suicide. notified tne po-
lice. They ascended to the top floor,
entered n small room and pried open
a steamer trunk. There lay the body,
cramped and partly decomposed. with
a rope wound tightly around the
throat
The man who mad occupied the
room evidently had left hastily, for
there had been no effort to remove
anything. About the room Bibles and
prayer books containing names written
in both English and Chinese, gave the
information that he was known In Eng
lisn as William H, Lion. and in Chi
nese as Leong Loo Linn.
Scrawled on a card in fairly good
English was an unsigned note which
read:
Il hope you do not get mad at me,
because all the trouble came from me.
/ hope some day the happiness come
to us both"
There was great excitement among
the Chinese in the vicinity when the
murder was discovered, but with the
exception of the proprietor they could
not be induced to view the body.
Decomposition had progressed so
far. however, that except for the white
ness of the feet IL would have been
difficult to ascertain whether it was
the body of a white woman.
Paul Sigel later examined the cloth
ing the woman wore. He was unable,
however. to identify any Of the things
as having belonged to his missing
daughter, Elsie.
a number of letters which the po-
lice expect will throw light on the
case were found in the room. One
was written in English, addressed TO
the missing Chinaman who occupied
the room but was unsigned. warned
him that if he did not stop paving at
tention to Elsie SigeP' he would meet
a terrible fate. the other letters
found were written by a girl who
signed herself Elsie According TO
the police the missives were written
in terms of endearmenti A silver
spangled bracelet upon which were
the initials 'E. c. S." was found in
dresser drawer. Some text books. a
speller and a geography owned by the
missing Chinaman contained scrawls
of the namo Elsie" such as person
lGa IN In ri 10 toh aE
plain envelope addressed to Miss
Avenue, New York, but empty, was
also found in the room.
man who described himself as
Joseph X. Lang. but who is a China
man, called at the Eighth avenue
house quite Unexpectedly during the
night. He said he called 10 see his
cousin, who proved to he the missing
Chinaman who occupied the room in
which the trunk was found. Lang said
he saw his cousin, Elsie Sigel and her
father and mother al performance
al the Chinese theater three weeks
ago
Several Chinese were examined by
Coroner Harburger today at the pre-
liminary inquest TO Elsie Sigels death.
and three of them were, in default of
81 900 bail held as material witnesses.
One OF them was On Wing, who ace
companied Sun Leung. the restaurant
proprietor. when the latter went last
night 10 notify the police of the mys-
terious room connected with his es-
tabishment. Sun Leung is a cousin
Of Leon and could not be found by the
police later when they wanted TO qucs-
ton him. He Is still missing.
Yee Kim, waiter in the eighth
avenue restaurant, told the coroner
that he had never seen white woman
upstairs over the restaurant He said
that last Sunday evening Mrs. Sigel.
mother of the murdered girl. called at
the restaurant and asked for Leon.
but left after being told Leon was
out
An autopsy performed by Coroner's
Physician o 'Hanlon. today brought the
statement from the physician that, in
his opinion. asphyxia had been the
cause Of Elsie Sigeps death. The or
gans also indicated that the person
might have been murdered. The ply
slcian was unable to tell how long the
girl had been dead.