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Show ELSIE SIGEL'S MURDERER IN . CUSTODY Chinaman Answering His Description Captured in Schenectady Motive for Crime Shown by Endearing Letters Girl Wrote to Another Chinaman China-man Mr. Sigel Says Leon Threatened to Kill Chu Gain if Elsie Did Not Stop Going With Him ( the murder of Elsie Sigel was rospon- j sible. It was In theao rooms that Miss Sigel first undertook missionary work in Chinatown, and it was here ihat she was brought In contact with many of the residents of that section. Tha girl missionaries of Chinatown, like Elsie Sigel. use these rooms in which to meet the unfortunate women of Chinatown and there talk religion to them. On stated occasions Chinamen China-men were invited to the rooms, and there thoy met the young girl missionaries. mis-sionaries. In that manner many Chinamen were induced to attend church and Christian Sunday schools in different parts of the city, and from these first meetings many romances I have developed, the Chinamen mar- rying white women. The first of these weddings, which occurred eight J years ago, created much comment, but recently there have been so many such alliances that little attention is j paid to them. Telegrams from various cities , of ' the country, relative to tho supposed j movements of Leon Ling and his miss- j ing room mate, Chin Sin, have only served to confuse the police In their search for the men wanted. Rut the i Information from Chicago that two ' such men passed through there en route to Vancouver, B. C., is considered consid-ered of importance, and points west of Chicago have been notified to be on the lookout for them. Chu Gain is being held by the police, po-lice, who believe he has not told all I he knows. New York. June 20. Leon Ling, the Chinaman- suspected of murdering murder-ing Elsie Sigel, may never be found. The pollco, according to an announcement announce-ment mado tonight, regard the search for him as well nigh hopeless. However, How-ever, the mutilated body of the girt Wt behind In a trunk in his room will not be burled in tho potter's field-Paul field-Paul Sigel. the father, claimed and" positively Identified the body at 'he morgue tonight, admitting for the first time that the victim was his daugh-te- Elfle. The girl's mother, now in a sanitarium, sani-tarium, had previously identified the jewelry; another woman had Identified Identi-fied the underclothlncr. and rolatiVos ' New York. June 21. Speedy solution solu-tion of the myBtery of the death of Elsie Sigel is looked for as a result of tho arrest, of two Chinamen, believed to he Leon Ling, or Wm. Leon, as he wan known also, and Chung Sin, his associate, the first at Schnectady, and the other near Amsterdam, N. Y. police officials, having the case in charge, said, after communicating with the Sc henectady police, that they were sure that the man arrested in that city was Leon Ling, in -whose room the body of Miss Sigel was found. The description of the man was stated to coincide in every particular with that of Leon, except that he was a few jotnds less in weight. As to the other oth-er Chinaman, under arrest at West Galway. the New York authorities did not feel so positive. The New York authorities will hav$ Leon brought to this city. Pchenectady. N. Y., June 21.. Chinaman, giving his name as Loon LMk, but meeting in every -ay the description of William H. Leon, want-el want-el for the Sigel murder in New York, was taken Into custody here this noon. I7e came here nine days ago, and has been cooking in a chop suey place. j The police are positive that he is j the roan wanted. He came here from Now York, with Chun Sin, arrested this morning. Amsterdam, N. Y., June 21. Chung S!-i wanted in New York as a material w'rness in the murder of Elsie Sigel, was arrested today at West Galway, ten miles distant. The Chinaman admitted his identity and acknowledged that he was a per-Foial per-Foial friend of Leon Ling. Chung; Sin hap been at West Galway for eifbt ; - -days., being employetL as .a cook by Harvey Kennedy of New York, who has ft summer residence there. .He admitted ad-mitted having roomed with Leon Ling, but declares he has not" knowledge of his whereabouts. i v New York, June 21. The fact that Leon Ling called at the Sigel home on Tu'?s1lv, June 8. the day before Miss Sigcl's cisappearance. and threatened to kill Chu Gain, unless Elsie "stop- j pod going with him," was madeknown today by Paul Sigel, the father of the ' murdered girl. Mr. Sigel said also he believed Elsie was induced to visit Leon's room, under un-der tho tepippcntatlon that Leon was 111. that she was killed on tho day she left her home, and that she did not go t.) Washington. Mr. Sigel said Leon waj urd'r thr influence of liquor when h-j c?lled, and Elsie told him she would have nothing to do with him while ho was In that condition. "If you don't stop going with Chu Cain, I will kill him and do something else too,' Mr. Sigel quoted Leon as saying. I When first Interviewed in his cell, after being examined by the detectives, detect-ives, Leon showed not the slightest coiicern. but when the Associated Press correspondent Intimated that, hl- trunk had been found and opened, he became excited, and indignantly demanded by what right his trunk had been opened. Up to that time, he had firmly denied that he had a trunk with him. Asked when he left Washington, Wash-ington, he assumed an unconcerned air. and. in "broken English, said: "No Washington." As the questioning continued, he found it very difficult to underetand. When asked about the Elsie Sigel murder, he kept repeating nervously, "Mistake, mistake." New York, June 21, In the love letters let-ters of EIbIp Sigel to two Chinamen is found the motive for the grewsomo murder of General Franz Sigel's granddaughter. The night the body was discovered wedged Into the old had said the murdered girl was Elsie Slgrl,, granddaughter of General Franz Sigel. Until tonight, however, the father had maintained silence. But after a conference at police headquarters head-quarters this afternoon, he visited the nicrgue, accompanied by Franz Sigel. a brother, Reginald, his son, and Mabel Sigel. a cousin of the victim. First the clothing on the body was examined by Mabel Sigel. "Lisle." said the girl, as she examined ex-amined It, "used to wear a peculiar whit-headod pin." A detective ran his fingers through the clothing and in a moment held up a Mhltc-headed pin. Mabel Sigel neddod. "Elsie wore that," she said. Tho face was uncovered and tho teeth examined. The father was silent, si-lent, but Mabel Sigel -was quick to note the tcetn. "Those are Elsie's teeth," she said, I ''and her hands, too." Paul Sigel nodded his head affirma-! tivc'y as each new feature was brought out to strengthen the identification. identi-fication. Coroner Ilarburgcr asked the father fath-er Jf he uas certain that the body whs that cf his daughaer. "Are you satisfied in every way of th3 tu-curacy of the identification,'' he wns asked. 'T am satisfied,' said the man in a broken voice, as he was led away. Franz Sigel made arrangements for the immediate removal of the body and for the funeral. trunk in the room of Leon Ling in Eighth avenue,, the police found a score or rnoreof letters which the girl had addressed to him. They were endearing In tone and Indicated a friendship more than platonlc. In searching Chinatown last night, the detectives raided the private rooms of j Chu Gain, owner of the famous Port Arthur Chinese restaurant, and there they .found about two hundred letters which had been addressed to him by Elsie Sigel. These letters were even more endearing in tone than those found In Loon Ling's room. In those she addressed him as "My own dearest, dear-est, beloved." and "My own dear Chu," rind "Ever your loving Elsie," she frequently fre-quently signed herself. The Chu Gain letters gave the flrrt Information as to the motive for the murder. Miss Sigel told Chu Gain in pome of thete letters of her coduct with Leon Ling, told him not be jealous, jeal-ous, and explained her object In main-tailing main-tailing her friendship for Ling. The police will not give out the full contents con-tents of these letters. It la now supposed that Leon Ling decMod to tragically eid the romance of the girl he loved, aud his rival. Her Affection for Chu Gain was known, as shown by the letters received by Chu Gain, fn which he and the girl are t'nrvpned with death unleFg their r-lat1"T)solp r-lat1"T)solp ceased. The murder was anrirently the execution of that throat. ''"he Chlnntnwn mission popularly k" n as tho "Girls' reorontrn room. " v"" Hored last njTht for ho first t'"o 'Ince thoy were or-er?d nht ve,v ao. No oxolnnaMon wa clvrn for thig action, but it is supposed that |