New-York tribune., 1909-06-23
DESCRIBES MURDER
Continued from first page.

Did Observation-Disclosures"
Yes"
"rWhere?"
ION the floor"
WAS it bloody?"
Yes"
SIN WENT INTO THE ROOM.
Were you still looking through the transom
when you saw the handkerchief on the foor?"
No"
You went into the roon?'
Yes"
Sin explained that he got tired of watching
Leon and Elsie and also little frightened.
so he went down TO the restaurant. Leon, he
said. came to the door and called him to come
upstairs He went back. and Leon said that he
thought Elsie dying, maybe she al
her in the trunk
Where was Elsie when you went back?"
Captain Carey asked
'I don't know"
Captain Carey interrupted Sins story at this
point You haven't told us-au you saw through
the door, Carey said Where was that
trunk?'
'In the closet
How do you know"
Because IT belonged there. 1t was there all
the time"
Yes"
How did you happen to see it?"
Leon went into the closet"
What he doing in the closet?"
He was taking the boxes and things Off the
trunk and throwing them on the floor"
What did he do with the trunk?'
''He dragged it out into the room"
Where was Elsie?"
Elsie was on the bed"
How was she lying?''
"She was on her back
How was she dressed?"
at couldn't tell. The bed clothes were thrown
over her"
WAS the rope around her neckT'
II couldn't tell"
Why"
BED CLOTHES COVERED HER.
THE bed clothes were drawn clear up 10 here"
indicating the line of the chin.
Gould you see her feet?"
Yes"
Did she have on her shoes?"
mo"
"Stocldngs?"
mo Her feet were bare"
Did you see any blood?"
'eYes There was blood all around her mouth
and on the bedclothes and the floor"
Sin said that Leon kicked the trunk open. Il
held Icons clothing and some bed clothing.
Leon threw everything out Of the trunk and on
to the floor. The rope was lying on the floor
near the trunk. It had hung on the wall in the
corner Of the closet. and Leon had brought 1t
out of the closet
Sin said that he went downstairs a second
time. and that when he came back Leon wanted
him TO help tie the trunk. He insisted strongly
that he had not helped put the girls body in
the trunk
ab
Yes" he replied, there was blood the
bedclothes and on the floor
Didn't It make you suspicious to see this
blood? Didn't you question Leon?"
YES I asked him where the blood came
FROM and he said that Elsie bit her lip and it
killed her"
DIDN'T KNOW ELSIB WAS IN TRUNK
where was Elsie?'
II don't know"
was she in the trunk"
II don't know"
This last question was put many times and
IN roanv ways but Sin would not admit that
La knew that the body was in the trunk He
denied over and again that he had put his hands
on the body or had helped put the body in the
+rnnk He did admit that he had helped tie
+ba trunk. and described the knots.
Toward the last Of the examination he grew
e,,1lxv and would hardly answer a question, but
he frightened up when Captain Carey began to
asL, him where he went after the murder. Sin
seenoed TO take this indication that his
long ordeal was nearing the end.
He said that he spent the night OF June 9
with his cousin, Chung P. Sin. at his restaurant,
at No 3s West 29th street. The next day. he
said he went back to the house in Eighth ave-
,,,e 70 get his suitcase. He the trunk and
it eave him q scare, and he ran away.
haz nla
+,,,nl, TO Europe and that he was going to send
g m Jersey City TO be put a steamer for
Europe
Sin was emphatic in denying that ne had seen
leon since the day OF the murder. He said that
,,beo he went back to tho house the next day
Teon was gone and that he had not seen him
since or heard from him
Sin acknowledged receiving $500 from Chu
Cain some time before the murder. He said
tbat he got the money to go into business. but
.hot two weeks before the murder Leon bor-
rouOed the money from him.
KNEW OF Icons JEALOUSY
C,,a, Wick Man, the Chinese interpreter, said
g. the examination of Sin that Sin said he
80 con had been living at No. 1S2 Eighth
e-.o,ra for about six months He knew that
- and chu Gain were both in love with Elsie