Evening star., 1909-06-23
SAW ELSIE STRANGLEO
Chung Looked Through Key
hole and Witnessed Crime.
HE HELPED TIE UP TRUNK
Tells of Struggle With Girl Gagged
With Handkerchief.
CLOTHING TORN FROM BODY
Oriental Calmly Smokes Cigarettes
as He Relates Awful Details
of the Murder.
HE HELPED TIE UP TRUNK
CLOTHING TORN FROM BODY

NEW YORK. June o3.-Puffing non
chalantly at cigarettes and smiling
blandly while his auditors, hardened to
ordinary tales of crimes. sat with strain
ed faces, Chung Sin, the sleek chum of
William Leon, the accused murderer of
Elsie Sigel. late yesterday afternoon con-
fessed the narrowing details of the girls
murder.
All night, on the journey down from
Amsterdam, he had apparently amused
himself by telling conflicting stories to
Detective Forbes; at police headquarters
he continued these tactics. seemingly as
fresh as ever in spite of the ordeal of his
arrest and a sleepless night but finally
he appeared to realize that further at
tempt to mislead his questioners would
be useless. and to Capt. Carey, head of
the homicide bureau, and Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Theodore II. Ward. In the
latters office. he made what he declared
was clean breast of all he knew of the
murder and of the circumstances leading
up to II.
The following is the story of the con-
fession. as given out by the police TO the
press last night, but which is considera-
bly, modified by statement of the dis
trict attorneys Office today.
agrees TO 1ell the ITuLn.
Me tell truth now he said, with
one of his bland smiles when asked why
he had told SO many conflicting stories
Without display a trace of emotion
the Chinaman painted the picture of
Elsie SigeTs murder, the tying up Of
her body, it's disposal in Icons trunk
and the tying of the trunk by Leon and
himself. going into most minute details
in describing how handkerchief a.
sumably saturated with chloroform or
some other drug. was stuffed into the
girls mouth: how Leon stripped the
girls clothing from her body when she
on the couch in his room and called on
him to aid in concealing the crime
The only details lacking in the story
told by the Chinaman to make the pic
ture complete were as to how the girl
came to Leons room and where Leon
went after the body was dumped into
the trunk. OF these details Chung Sin
claimed to be ignorant. but the police
are not satisfied that even yet he has
told all he knows.
Stolid at Scene of Crime.
n the hope of gaining the most i'm.
portant information of all, the where
abouts of Leon, he was taken last night
to the house at No. 49, Sth avenue, where
the girl was murdered, and was put
through third degree by being forced
there, on the spot where the crime was
committed, to repeat to it's last detail
the gruesome story he had already told.
Step by step he was taken through the
acknowledged facts of the murder, from
the moment when he heard scuff1e in
Leon's room and peeped through the key
hole TO the moment when he was called
on by Leon to assist him in roping the
trunk.
But even under this ordeal the China
man persisted in his statement that he
knew no more than he had told; that
Leon disappeared Immediately after the
murder without telling him where he was
going, and that he went TO a cousins
house that night and the next day to the
Kennedy place at West Galway where
he was arrested.
Most of the questions were put in Eng
iish by MIR. Ward and Capt. Carey, but
at times the services of Guam Wick Nam,
the official interpreter of the Criminal
there might be no doubt that Chung Sing
knew exactly the nature of the questions.
Denies Having Girls Ring.
You've got the girls ring" was the
statement, sharply addressed to him by
Capt. Carey. that changed the current
of his previously contradictory state
ments.
No. no; me no have ring; Leon have
ring. the Chinaman blurted out.
Then came the question why he had
told so many conflicting stories, and his
reply that then, at least, he would tell
When did you see Elsie sigel?' asked
Mr.. Ward.
THAT morning. Chung answered. re-
ferring to the morning of Wednesday.
June 8, when ii is now known abso-
iutely that the girl was murdered.
Where did you see herr"
Up there with puff on his cigar
cite and motion with his hands
toward the ceiling.
In giving most of his other replies as
well the Chinaman used his hands with
all the expressiveness of Frenchman
going through the motions of washing
his hands and face when he came to
that part of the recital
BY up there" the Chinaman said he
meant Leon's room on the top floor of
the Sth avenue house adjoining his own.
Were you in Leon's room?"
Was Not in Leon's Room.
NO. in my own room; me not in
Icons room then
Then how could you see Elsie from
your ROOM
1t was then that the Chnaman calmly
acknowledged having spied on Leon
through keyhole while his chum
smothered the infatuated girl. without
raising a hand to help her.
How did you know she was in Leon =
room. II YOU did not see her go in there,
as you have told us?"
Il heard a scuffing." the Chinaman
replied: 1.-The sound woke me up; that
was about 1880 that afternoon. Leon's
room is right across from mine and
looked through the keyhole.'
Now. we've got to have the truth
the truth now. Chung" demanded Capt
Carey. Tell us exactly what you saw
going on In that room."
Elsie Ssgel. the girl. was on the bed, :
said the Chinaman. while smile that
horritied hts hearers lowered about his
lips. Leon was bending over her. A
handkerchief was sticking out of her
mouth and j saw blood on it. She was
fighting with him and he was pressing
the handkerchief harder into her mouth
Finally she lay still and Leon stood up.
looking at her
Shocked by Chinaman's Story.
For an instant there was silence, as
the Chinaman's auditors gave themselves
time to realize the enormity of the
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