Evening star., 1909-06-27
Elsie SigeI's Body Carted to
Newark and Back.
Attempted TO LEAVE 1T
Chinese Restaurant Keeper Would
Not Have It Dumped on Him.
GIRL DEAD OF AsPHYxIAT1oN
Analysis Shows That She Was Not
Strangled-Stomach Battles
DR.. O'Hanlon.

NEW YORK, June 26-The New York
police confirmed tonight the new phase of
the Sfgel 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 heavy oval
topped trunk. like the one in which the
body was found. on his hands, and q
pressing anxiety to be rid of It,
1t has been ascertained that he attempt.
ed to leave the trunk in the Newark res-
taurant of Ii Sing But prudent Ii Sing
would not hear of having the trunk
dumped on him.
James Halstead. the Newark cabbis who
is understood to have driven Leon and
his burden of terror back to New York
that same day, could not be found TO.
night. When the police lay hands on him
they VIII take him to the property room
DIT headquarters and ask him to identify
positively the trunk in which the body
was found as the one he drove from New
ark to New York with a crop-haired
Chinaman as his only living fare
Asphyxiated, Not Strangled.
The mystery of just how Elsie Sigel was
killed was cleared up to some extent to.
day with the announcement of the results
or the coroner's autopsy. supporting In .
way that the murder was not premed.
itated, but committed on the spur of tho
moment by the jealousy-crazed Chinaman.
DR.. O.Hanlon of the coroner's Office said
tonight 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 ev-
idence of congestion of the lungs. such as
always goes with death by asphyXiation.
The QnalySiS of the contents thA
stomach Is not yet completed. On ac-
count of the advanced state of decompo-
sition in which the body was found 1t has
presented many difficulties.
There is absolutely no confirmation of
the statement made to the police by \
clerical friend of the Sigel family that
Elsie ever married Chu Gain. Leon
Ling's rival, who Is held under bond
as a material witness.
Chu Gain Denies Marriage.
Chu Gain protested that he has sor-
rows enough without being made out
widower. Police Captain Calvin, who
was detached last night on leave OF abb
sence returned to town this morning
as suddenly as he left and was back on
his post again tonight without word
to say Whatever his clue might have
been, it seems not to have materialized.
The district attorneys office today
had Ong Fung. an English speaking
Chinaman, up for a little quiz on the
Chinese tongs and their possible affilia-
tions with the case.
Ony Fung told the authorities that moths
ing was known in Chinatown to connect
Leon with either of the tOngs, and that
apart from his membership in the Chi
nese Masons (Which the Masons denyD
the only other society to which he be-
longed was the Four Brothers, which
embraced all the descendants of four
tabled demigods who lived in the cloudy
days before even Chinese history began
and who gather now for nothing more
violent than to vaunt their descent. Even
if Leon Ling is caught and his case
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. Parts or
them must be used in evidence, but there
are other parts, 1t was said tonight, OF
which the family is still ignorant.
Hslstead, the cabman employed by tho
Lawrenz Livery Company of Newark. n.
j., who told the police that he hauled a
Chinaman and a trunk from Ii Lings
restaurant in Newark to house in Sth
avenue. presumably the place where Elsie
Sgels body was found, was brought to
police headquarters tonight.
He looked at the trunk in which the
body was found and it is understood that
he identified it as the one he hauled, al
though the Police would not say so.