The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-27
Trunk With Body Was Carried
 Out But Brought Back
L|NG'S REQUEST SPURNED
Murderer of Elsie Sleel Tried To Leave the Trunk at Restau- taurant But the Proprietor
 Rejected the Offer.

New York, June 26.-The New York police confirmed today the new phase of the Sigel murder case brought to light in Newark, N. J., today-that Leon Ling was in Newark early in the afternoon of the day of the murder with d heavy, oval- topped trunk like the one in which the body was found, and a pressing anxiety to be rid of 1t. It has been ascertained that he attempted to leave the trunk in the Newark restaurant of Ii Sing, but prudent u Sing would not hear to hav ing the trunk dumped on him.
 James Halstead, the Newark cabbie who is understood to have driven Leon and his burden back to New York the same day could not be found tonight. When the police lay hands on him they will take him to the property roomaat headquarters and ask him to identify positively the trunk in which the body was found as the one he drove from Newark to New York with a crop-haired Chinaman as his only
 living fare.
 The mystery of just how Elsie Sigel was
 killed was cleared up to some extent to-
 day with the announcement of the cor
 oner autopsy supporting in way that
 the murder was not premeditated, but
 committed on the spur of the moment by
 the jealousy-crazed Chinaman.
 Dr. O'Hanlon of the coroners office said
 today that there had been found no rup- tured blood vessels such as always ac-
 company death by violent strangulation
 but that on the contrary, there was evi-
 dence of congestion of the lungs such as always goes with death by asphyxiation-
 The analysis of the contents of the 1 stomach is not yet complete and on ac-
 position in which the body was found 1t has presented many difficulties.
 There is absolutely no confirmation of 1 the statement made to the police by a | clerical friend of the Sigel family that Elsie married Gnu Gain, Leon Lng's IT, val, who is held under bond as a ma | terial witness
 | Gnu Gain has protested that he has 1 sorrows enough without being made out
 a widower. Police Captain Calvin, who
 wars detached last night on a leave of
 absence, returned to town this morning
 as suddenly as he left, and was back
 on his post again tonight without a word to say. Whatever his clew may have
 been 1t seems not to have materialized. 1 The district attorneys today had Ong i Flung, an English-speaking Chinaman, up for d little quiz on the Chinese Tongs and their possible utilization with the case
 Ong Flung told the authorities that
 nothing was known in Chinatown to con meet Leon with either of the Tongs and | that apart from his membership in the 1 Chinese Masons (which the Masons deny) 1 the only other society to which he be- 1 longed was the Four Brothers, which | embraces all the descendants of four | fabled demi-gods, who lived in the cloudy | days before even Chinese history began l and who gather now for nothing more l violent than to vaunt their descent Even if Leon is caughr and his case l comes to trial it seems little likely, from A statement made tonight, that the care | fully guarded Elsie letters will ever be | made public in their entirety.