Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
STILL SEARCHING.
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TAINTED help. Chung Sin soon understood
rhy when he saw the body lying across
the bed. There was blood on the girfs
lips and a stained handkerchief was
stuffed into the mouth of the girl The
features, he said, were strained and
black but he saw no rope around the
Dung womans neck. Leon explained TO
hin. that the girl bit her tongue and bled
to death.
When asked If that seemed plausible
to him, Chung Sin admitted that he felt
terrified and that his first impulse was to
get out of the house as soon as he could.
Before he left, however, Leon borrowed
$aOa from him, he said. They both be-
longed to the same secret society, he eX-
planned, and he felt bound by his oath
to do that much for fellow member.
Then he hurried to the rooms Of his
cousin with the intention of passing the
night, but his curiosity got the better OF
him. and after two uneasy hours ne
sneaked back to the house, climbed the
stairs, lifted himself to where he could
peer through the transom and saw the
room empty save for the trunk That
was enough for him. He hurried back to
his Cousins and slept there that night.
The cousin, when questioned, substantial
ed the story.
The next day he left for Amsterdam,
NJ Y, to work near where he was later
arrested.
The foregoing version of what Chung
Sin saw and did is as given out by
Assistant District Attorney Ward
<r,,
remains to be seen. but of all the wide
ly varying accounts that come from the
criminal courts building after the first
inquisitiOn the version as made public
today seems to be conservative one.
Before the order went out that the
case must not be discussed further, AS
sistant District Attorney Ward was
emphatic in denying that Chung Sin
was Put under the screws" or that he
was in any way threatened or
intimidated by the district attorneys
Office.
Those who knew Elsie Sigel best be-
lieve that she was sincere in her mis-
sior work and her relations with the
Chinese up to the day of her death
Mrs Florence Todd of the Bowery
Settlement force has never varied from
her assertion in that belief. Chu Gain
who lived in terror of his jealous rival
Leon Ling, and knew both the girl and
her mother for years, is of the same be-
lief Assistant District Attorney Ward
is inclined to the theory of QuOn Yick
Nam, the interpreter, who thinks that
the girl was lured to Icons room by q
report of his feigned illness and there
choloroformed after Leon had been an
gered 10y her GOODNESS and her refusal
to see no more of Chung Gain his
wealthy rival.
The chloroform, Quon believed. work
ed too well and when Leon found he
could not revive Elsie. he bound hel
with cord and wedged her into the
trunk. In support of this theory is the
pathetic and moving prayer written or
a mission letterhead which the girl left
for her mother on the day she went
to her death. 1t seems impossible. il
is argued. that a girl going on any
but a righteous mission could have
written such a note.
Capt. Carry paid another visit today
to the room where the body lay and
found ashes in the stove, which may
| account for the missing skirt and wais,
and the missing handkerchief, which
Chung says he saw between the girls
teeth.
The discovery today that Leon was
bred an actor and the knowledge that
all Chinese actors are trained to take
female parts did not On second though,
greatly impress the police with the idea
that he would SO disguise himself. Chin
csc women in this country are notice
ably scarce, and the very fact that one
had been seen travelling would be
en- ugh to excite curiosity. 1t is much
| more probable, the police believe. that
the man either shipped as a sailor OF
cook, or has worked his way south in
to some of the obscure Chinese col
onies on the outskirts of New Orleans
Baltimore or Galveston.
A report from Schenectady that q
Chinaman wearing long pulled silk
coat beneath which a woman's skirt
could be seen at times, has not devel-
oped so far as the police here We're con-
cerned today.