Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-24
NEW YORK POLICE TODAY REX
DOUBLE EFFORTS TO INDUCE
cHINAMAN TO TELL WHEREs
ABouTs OF SLAYER LEON.
HAS ADMITTED HE
WITNESSED GRIMM
PINNED DOWN AFTER a fAysa Ex
ANIMATION CELESTIAL toMs
FEssED HE SAW LEON PUT THE
BODY IN TRUNK.

New YORK, June 2a-Thc dfa.
trict attorneys office gave csx& 4
statement today modifying ana 10
some extent changing the unoffl-
ciaI published reports giving the
alleged cireumstantlaI details OF
Chung Sins confession In the
Sigel murder case. According to
this statement the story told by
Chung was not that he actually
saw the murder committed or that
he helped bind up the trunk after
Elsie SigeI's body had been placed
In It. He said he went to his room
about O'Clock thai afternoon to
lie down and that Leon came In
soon afterwards and said Elsie
was dead. Chung asked Leon
what had happened and said the
latter replied that "EIsie had bit.
ten her tongue and bled to DEATH"
Chung said he went Into the room
and saw the body. He felt the
girls hands and found them cold
and then he went out. When he
came back he found Leon throw
ing clothing out Of She trunk
which he kept under the bed.
Chung said he went out again and
when he returned he. found the
trunk bound with in the room,
and the body qs Elsie gone. He
supposed Leon had placed the
body in the trunk. Van Wick Nam
the interpreter who was present
ut She examination Of Chung Sin
by Attorney Ward yesterday de-
csased today there was no truth In
the statement that Chung had
said he witnessed the actual
killing Of Elsie by peepine through
key hole from his room adioin-
tng and looking over the transom.
JotnstoWn, Pa, June 23.-Tfe
authorities here believe they have
Leon Ling, the alleged murderer
of Elsie SiseI in custodq.
New York. June 23.--Although e
1rts were redoubled today to W fin
rom Chung Sin, the room-matI {
William Leon, to whom all eyiiIenc
oints as the slayer Of Elsie Sige
lrther admissions, especially as
he present whereabouts of the allie,
d slayer, the Chinaman remain
toical and the efforts of the polio
yere fruitless. The poliS now ar
thoroughly satisfied that con wa
he slayer. They are redouS ling the
forts to capture him. Meanwhil
hey believe that Chung Sin ha
lore to do with the crime than
Omitted when sweated yestarda
fternoon.
chunr Sins Confession.
Baited and intimidated by detet
YES, threatened with prosecution an
onfused with rapid fire question
hung Sin. one time roommate of Leo
ing, told yesterday afternoon of Els
igel's murder. Under the terrif
ressure of the third degree" tha HIT
hinaman admitted that he had see
he body in Leon Ling's room, that I
ad touched it while it was still rn
nat he had smelled drugs and Ia
.atched Leon Ling's preparation z
lacing the body in the trunk, vi !,
was found horribly decomposed I,
riday night.
Smoking cigarette after cigarette,l
uiet his nerves, the Chinaman tx
rokenly. but with brutal bluntness,
ne girls death. He was surrounded &
1o time in the office of Az .stant Dis
'ict Attorney Ward by detectives frol
olice headquarters, who preyiousJ
ad put him through a grilling. M
Yard and District Attorney Jeron,
lso We're present. and from what ca
e learned 1t was Mr.. Jerome himse
'ho finally drew the story frol
hung Sins lips. He was told the
con Ling had been captured an
I'd laid the blame upon his (Chun
in's) shoulders. This, together wit
ne persistent hammering at the pris
ner, brought the confession. 1t wa
lade partly In English and partly /
hsnese, for there was an interprete
resent, and was taken down by sten
No statement of the gis
his remarks was made public, BIZ
ne more salient facts of the confessio
oon became known about the build
1g,
Girl First rrtssed.
From the mans story. 1t Is apparer
lat Elsie Sigel first was drugged wit
and then cfloked to deatl
he was killed apparently on the nigh
June 8, although Chung Sin appear
d q little mixed In his dates. But h
ays that early in the morning of Jun
D he heard a strange noice in Leon
oom, adjoining his, and locking owe
1e transorn, saw the girl lying on tn
ed with a bloody towel over he
louth He passed through the room
"