Show MOTIVE FOR SIEGEL MURDER DISCOVERED J Daughter er of an Aristocratic Family Killed by Chinese Lover Jealous of Fellow Fellow Fel- Fel low Celestial New v York June 20 Developments followed one another quickly today in the investigation tion of the mysterious stran strangling strangling strang- strang ling of Elsie Siegel of Gen Franz Siegel and the concealment of her body in a trunk in a room occupied by Leon Ling Chinaman at No Eighth avenue The body was discovered Friday and although three arrests arrests arrests ar ar- ar- ar rests have been made at least half a dozen including including ing ng the suspect ie are re in flight The motive for tor tho the slaying of the pretty prell girl tho daughter of ot a n proud family who had taken up mission work In Chinatown against the wishes of her family has been established according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the police It was Jealousy jealous the the Jealousy of or one Chinaman who was the wooer of ot the girl Irl over o the at attentions at- at paid her h by another China China- man The first Chinaman was wa Leon Jeon Ling Ling- who has made good his escape and the second one ono Chu Gain proprietor tor of ot the tho elaborate Port Arthur yes res on Mott Molt street who tho is detained at police headquarters Chu Gain was arrested and detained as a witness ss because o it was learned that he and Loon Leon a 11 former r at ut the restaurant has hiss quarreled over Miss Siegel Chu Gains Gains' rm In the building was searched and a a. a handful of loiters to him from Miss i Siegel el of ot almost the thc same l me tenor as al she addressed Leon were found Cound among Chu Gains Gain's effect s I. I Sn Tho The fact tact that thai the letters were found liaR has as been concealed b by tho the police and while Capt Car Cary of the homicide bu bureau hureau hu- hu reau declared toda today that the motive md hind been found ho hue made mado no mention of the tho letters letter He TIC declared declare ho that hat the motive waR wan jf Jealousy and that I ho tho attentions of Chu Gain to Miss l She She- KC gel cl had hall Inspired Leon on to strangle strang-Ie his I white sweetheart To add still another strange 0 chapter to the tho trag-e trag tragedy y which cost tho the granddaughter grand grand- dou daughter of or Gen Sl Siegel el her life Chu Gain thu rival rhal of I Loon on furnished the tho money to pR pay for tor his Misfit flight from tho the city and this thin fact tact appears to establish that the slaying woe was an and arranged with the tho cunning of an nn Oriental tal mind n 1 d r r a lett lt h W tiit Y rt th Ill l. l both tho the Would Kirn be lie shain on and their bodies cut to little l 1 and of nt Th letter for for- ho hll know greatly frightened ht Chu that both both- l Leon con TAng and Chon Chiong Sing his bin roommate visitors at tl the tho o Si Singel Sin Sin- gel col homo home anti that their with the tho secret pecrot society and fI of or Chinatown ma mode made c thorn them very powerful and anil ho hn fearel they would carry out such h a th threat N t. t Chong Sing Sine called on Chu Gain As AR nearly ns ml Chu hu Gain can nn recollect cl It It Chon r Chong Sing made this visit noon about nonn on June lunt 9 9 th the day RY that thC had been definitely In fixed an a. tilt the one ont on which Elsie Siegel I l wa was strangled INI to death Rn and her body holly placed In a n trunk Accept i t Money fur for I To tho the great surprise of oC Chu Gain his visitors was a agitated and very anxious anxious ious Iou to treat with him and readily a agreed roll to tn get et out of or the city and stay out If Chu Gain would furnish tho the money mone for transportation Ho lIo demanded de tie- a a. lar largo large f sum sum of oC money mone but hut when Chu Gain told him that ho he would have to get et the tho money moncy together Chong Chons Sing Ing agreed to take an any money that thata was a Immediately ImmedIate available and ended by b accepting all the money thoro there vas was twit on hand In the restaurant hong Chong Sing hurried away Y and that thatIs Is the last trace tracA that has been obtained oh- oh t tamed of oC him lie He is believed to hav haw returned to tho the room ho bo occupied Jointly joInt with Leon Ling Ling- upon tho the fourth floor noor of No 78 Eighth Eig avenue where the young youn girl was strangled with a acard acord acord cord card knotted about her hor neck where the murder was to bo be done or had al already already al- al read ready been accomplished The Tho two men then fled fied the city perhaps In different directions hut but Leon is believed to have hav tone gone immediately to anu anufrom anufrom from there to Baltimore leaving the latt latter r for tho the West est Chu Gain soon learned that both ng Ch Sing and Leon I Ling lAng had left loft Nv Nf York and later Inter learned from froin the mission that Mrs Irs Siegel el had been lookIn looking looking look look- In ing for her dau daughter and wa was was- l. l greatly broken in health and upon the tho vcr verge e eor been Leen absent absent ab ab- ab of or collapse Elsie had never novel sent from Crom her home before even evon until late at nl night hl but that her parents knew her whereabouts rim Guilt I IN Shocked This Information was seas a shock to Chu Chiti Gain Ho lie b believed that thaI Chong Chons Sin Sing and Leon Ling lAng had abducted ted the girl and nOlI Continued ou nil l' l Jc Three MOTIVE FOR SIEGEL MURDER DISCOVERED Continued from Page Pace One I I that she felt falt that she she sho could never satI sat sat- I explain her inor enforced absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence and amid was remaining awa away from from home On his own oun Initiative therefore ho hG wrote out and und had Ins inserted in a morning paper of Tuesday Juno 15 15 almost almost al al- al most a week after Elsie Siegel Ie ol disappeared disappeared the time following advertisement t. t E J J. 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Mother other ver very ill Come toine home homo dear dean one There was no signature but when Chu Cinta Gain was arrested Jio Jie immediately acknowledged that he lie had hind put the ad advertisement advertisement ad- ad in the paper in tho the hope that it would reach the eye 00 of tho the missing girl and cause her met to return home and freely free told of or his quarrels with Leon and of or his willingness to 10 pa pay blackmail to get et Chong Sing Ing and Leon Lung Ling both former of or tho the restaurant out of or the tho city When hen he ho learned that the girl had been boen slain ho Inc felt fell sure that his hla name would bo be connected with the tine case but made no attempt at flight He is held without ball bail and will be a wit ness at the tho inquest The Tine letters lotters of Miss Siegel to Chu Gain like those written to Leon Ling of a friendly nature showing a clean Interest In In- In terest In the tho dally daily life lire of ot the tine men cast upon the tIne high moral plane which ordered the tIne life of tho the young girl Irl The Tine most thrilling of at the days day's de development de- de was the tha flight tIght through the tine crowd crowded cd streets of ot tho the I East Ht Side Sido this o of a Chinaman who is 18 now regarded as one omne of or the tho most Important Important tant figures in tho the case lIe He fled closely pursued by a reporter who wished to turn him n over to tho the police policeto to Chinatown then through l laundries und and around tho thin crooked and narrow sheets et until no inn dived into the dark doorway of No 18 IS Poll Pell street and an d disappeared red lie He was Ch Chen n Yun Vun who wrote a n. letor let let- leI tor or to laon Ling under tho the name nama of William nUnn Ix Lon bone n which name namo l Loon on nan hUH now adopted ent sont It to ton Lon un ii tInn morn In of ot Juno 11 11 in two days after aCtor Elsie Elslo Ie ol disappeared Tho The flight followed nn an ha Investigation started after llio ho discovery of th the letter letter let Jet ter In tint the rack of ot tho the National Rational hotel In Ia Development of ot the flat It Day DB ay Other development do wore were Tho The fixing fix fix- x- x lag ing of or tho thin time tho tine telegram to Paul Siegel father t h of thin tho missing I as girl WAS sent fC from r Washington n II o 1 It r was gl given to tho the m manager nD Cr of or the branch office In tho the National motel hotel in b by a Chinaman about upon tho tine nl night ht of oC Juno 9 9 tho Iho same samo da day that t Miss Siegel el left home und and mixes tho tine time of or her slaying slayIng slay slay- Ing In- Inns as ns that da day Tho The positive identification of or the bod body in tho the morgue 3 as that of or Elsie Elide Siegel cl by her hOt father and other rela tives Tho father contended to thelast the tho last that the tho victim of the mysterious tragedy was not his daughter b by visiting visitIng visiting visit visit- ing the morgue moru until Coroner Harbur Har- Har bur burger burgor ol threatened to issue a for Cor him Finally at the morgue with I bowed head th the man whoso whose family pride forbade him him from even recognIzing recognizing recognizIng his own dead admitted that there could no lon longer er be bo any Rny doubt th that t. t the tho dead girt was wan Elsie The ta fact t that the tho clothes said by bJ tin th tho police to have havo boon been the tho outer KICI ger- menus of or amiss Siegel wore were not horn hera and anal that tho thai major portion of ot Ul tine sine aho wore the tho du day duy she he Is 10 missing and anid hunt no trace of ot it has boon been found That no Investigation atlon Is la being made of oC tho the theory that UnitE Ml MIss 1 SIege Siegel might have hBo taken her hor own life UCe Coroner und and Captain C. Gary are aro convinced con can vinced that elms he was strangled b by a a. apiece piece picco of or cord knotted about liar her neck In n a manner peculiar to Orientate Orientals Tine The national Interest which tho tine tragedy has hast aroused was shown hown by dispatches from all aU parts parI of or tho the country coun coun- tr try tn telling of ot tho the movements mo of namen supposed d to be suspects In tho case of oC pursued arrested or dt r examined b by police and citizens The best clue to 10 tho the whereabouts of 0 Leon Icon Ling In and Chong Chon- Sing suspects in inn the case was probably lost Jost today In the flight and disappearance of or Chen Yung Yun- YunChen Chen Chien was connected with the case easo through the discovery of ot a aletter aletter letter written by him to Loon Ling at Washington |