The Washington times., 1909-06-30
WOMEN UNN|T TING
HELPERS FOR LEON
Missionaries" Said TO Have
Aided in DiSposing of
Clues to Crime.

NEW YORK. June sl-The police
have learned that two white women,
members of the class who cali them
selves Chinatown missionaries, helped
Leon IN his attempt to cover up the
traces Of the murder of Elsie Sigel.
These two women went TO the real es-
tate agent who leased the storeroom
TO Yung Was. in which he had his laun-
! dry. at SO West 18th street, and gUT
him to transfer the lease to Yung Kee.
Tung Wah is brother OF Yung Dat
a former partner of Leon. and Yung
Wah helped Leon to try to dispose of
the trunk in which Elsies body was
packed. When the laundry had been
mutilated in an Intellectual attempt 20
get rid OF the trunk, Tmg Nah hur-
riediy sold out to his cousin, Yung Kee,
and disappeared, and tie two white
women, friends of Yung Wah and Yung
Dat, persuaded the agent to transfer
the lease.
Leon sent his confederate out from
the house in Eighth avenue immediate
ly after the murder was committed 70
get some one to take away the trunk
He sent it by an expressman at Forty
4
| Wah's Laundry because Yung Wah was
a brother of Yung Dat. Then Leon and
his confederate got an automobile, and
the two Cinnamon. with Icons three
suit cases. in one OF which was EIsie's
clothing, hurried on ahead to be at
the laundry to receive the trunk. They
told Yung Wah that they had to get
rid of the trunk and went down into the
cellar and tore up the floor to see il the
trunk could be buried. But the house
| is built on rock. and they could ind
no place for a grave.
Traces In Laundry.
Leon then gave Yung Wah the money
to have a new floor put in the cellar.
and proceeded to dispose of other
1 traces. EIsie's ,lothes. the police be-
lieve. were burnel in the laundry stove.
But Leons in his haste, overlooked a
pasteboard box, in which Elsie had once
brought some small articles to Leon's
room, and which he had used in pack
/ ing up her clothes. This box furnishes
indisputable proof that Leon was at
| the laundry. 1t was found in the
working room of the laundry, and on IL
was written Elsies name and address.
This is the box which the police took
/ to headquarters, and which has caused
so much conjecture as 70 the nature of
/ y
The police lock on the door of the
/ laundry cellar has also caused much
mystification- 1t was put there that the
/ new flooring might not be disturbed or
/ any change made in the conditions Of
/ the old floor showing how 1t had been
torn UP.
The relative of Yung Wan and a fell
low-membel' Of the Gee Gong tong who
vers with the trunk In Harlem told
/ also of Yung Wahs difficulty in getting
rid Of the laundry. .Yung Wan decided
| at once that this city was an unsafe
place for him. He was able to find a
cousin who would take the laundry OF
/ his hands, but then met a stumbling
/ block In the form Of the agent of the
building. To overcome the agents OBJ
] JectiOns to transfer of the lease, Yung
/ Wah resorted 10 two missionaries, %
/ friends of his AMI Yung Dat. These two
/ women went 70 the agent and per-
suaded him to consent to the transfer Of
the lease to Yung Kee.
Yung Family Concerned.
Showing the extent to which the
/ Yung family may be concerned in the
murder of Elsie Sigel, the police have
learned that Lai Sing. in whose charge
Leon tried to leave the trunk in New
| ark, IS a partner of Young Fong Gee.
/ an uncle OF Yung Dat and Yung Wah.
/ 1t was another member of the Yung
/ family who helped Leon get the trunk
/ to Harlem and who took the dispatch
| to the Sigel family 10 Washington and
/ sent IL from that city. A number OF
| telegram blanks and a rough draft OF
| the Sigei dispatch were found in the
! Harlem laundry. The police are now
| looking for Yung Wah, Yung Dat and
their relative who went to Washington.
| as well as for Leon
| The expressman who carried the trunk
to Harlem was taken to Captain Carey
| office at police headquarters yesterday
| and examined for more than an hour
| The negro who helped Leon carry the
| trunk upstairs on his return from New
ark has also been found. He had-fittle
/ TO say, except that the trunk was very
! heavy"
The police say that their investiga-
tons lead them daily TO the belief that
Chung Sing was FAR more deeply con-
/ cerned in the crime than he has vet
confessed. They have learned that Sing
is particularly bound TO help Leon in
all possible ways, because it was Sing
the Gee Gong Tong. This was three
| years ago-about a year after Leon
came here from Philadelphia
Turned Out For Cruelty.
Leon lad conducted a laundry in
Germantown, bus the owner of the
building in which the shop was threw
Leon out because he soaked a rat with
| kerosene and then set fire to the ami
| NAL and turned it loose. Leon first
| worked IN this city as a waiter in the
| restaurant of Young Nam, at Twenty
/ third street and Seventh avenue but
/ after being elected to the Gee Gong
| Tong he devoted his activities TO cheat
/ ing his fellow-countTymen In various
| restaurants and gambling houses.
story was current that half a hun
| dred detectives from this city had
/ spread through the northern counties OF
| New Jersey on a hunt for Leon. Deputy
( Commissioner Woods said that there
was no foundation for the story. NJ
| better reason was found TO credit a
/ story that Elsie had poisoned herself
| in Icons room and Leon had tried to
| get two Chinese truck gardeners from
| Long Island to bury the body in the
! Chinese cemetery. in Brooklyn