The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-09-12
MYSTERY
BATTLES
POLICE
REMARKABLE ORR f ia L
MURDER MYSTERY IN CHI
eAGO CHINATOWN RECALLS
| sLAYING OF ELSIE sIGEL.
NATIONAL PROBE
GOVERNMENT TO INVESTI-
GATE CHINESE CRIME
THROUGH THE COUNTRY
AND TO PROBE INTO OPIUM
SMUGGLING.

CHICAGO, Sept. 12.-FolIow-
ing one of the severest "third de-
gree" examinations i'm the history
of police records in this city, Mrs.
Alice Davis Sing, white wife of
murdered Charles Sing, is today
in the city jail formally charged
with the murder of her husband.
The third degree was given
in "a stockyards morgue in the
presence Of several detectives who
had the woman in custody.
II was the crucial moment in
the most remarkable Chinese
murder case since the xilling of
Elsie Sigel with which it is
strangely connected.
Christian training and civiliza-
tioH fell way, and she turned all
Oriental.
s'Charlie." she whispered, slip
ping into pidgin English, "you no
dead. Charlie-tell me you no
deah!"
Then the third degree be-
gan. The place of mourning
changed to twentieth century
inquisitfon. The detectives raised
her and pointed accusing fingers,
you killed him, didn't your"
you saw him killed."
"You know who did it'll"
"You were there, weren't your"
She listened in apathy, At last
she moaned:
"Oh. go away. / not know any,
thing. I not know he dead. Please
go away from mel"
For nine hours the pitf1ess
probing of her soul went on, but
her acquired Oriental calm stood
the ordeal. Then they led her to
jail and charged her with the
murder of her husband.
It was q strange ending for
pretty Alice Davis who started as
a Christian missionary among the
Chinese Of Kansas City.
When the Elsie Siegel murder
case was engrossing national at
tention and the dragnet was out
for Leon Ling, her slayer, Alice
volunteered to search the Kansas
City Chinatown as detective. She
| penetrated the secret places of
that Chinatown-and never re-
turned.
After a while she appeared in
Chicago as the wife of Charlie
Sing, prosperous restaurateur,
and lived with him In a quaint
Oriental cottage on Archer ave-
nue..
A few nights ago Josie Mo-
de1ski. maid at the Sing home
was awakened by a faint tapping
on her door and feeble voice
calling, "Josie! Josie!,
She opened, and there stood
Mrs. Sing. in night attire. The
woman looked wild, then fell to
the floor.
IN the darxened hallway the
maid saw signs of violence. In
the parlor she stumbled over Sing,
dying, his throat slit with a dag
ger.
Police, drawn by her shrieks,
ran up and found the body in the
doorway. 1t had been moved
after she left the room.
They searched, and found only
the unconscious Mrs. Sing-and
bloodstained footprints and finger
marks all over the house, reveal
| linz q terrific struggle. Some Of
tHe footprints, they say. showed q
mk1l's shoe. the others bore traces
OF bare feet.
Now the police are searchine
1.-THE country for George Der
IN0rn, Chinese whose real name
| 10 Dsr Yuen. He IL Said to have
bee4 friendly with Mrs. Sing and
there are rumors that Sing was
| Jealous.
n Norn's quarters wan found a
lsb1ack book" that still further
eonpIicates the case It bears the
xstxd zebu calf symbol Of the Hip
sing Tong. and appears to be a
dtrsctory OF crime covering &
c6x3n cities.
Owing to this .'blacx book and
other features Of the case, A.
oAminetti, federal commissioner
of immigration, has ordered an
nxeatigation Of national scope to
dr1s forth the sa0Eete Or Chiaeas
|si5np{ >.snd r4Aiways, white
~ ND opinm en1usGlin9.