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Show PRINCIPALS IN THE ELSIE SIGEL MURDER CASE Slain Granddaughter of War Hero, ?tJ .S?! . Miss Elsie Sigel The Missing Chi- ;- tT$S&$; fR$V '' naman, sLeon Ling at Upper Right fif iZZ&Zk Hia Chum, Chung Sin, and the di? Building in Which the Body Was New York, June 2C Not In jears ?iMmpWiM& has a murder case excited the sentl- I, ' Mv'n , , i,f Slain Granddaughter of War Hero, Miss Elsie Sigel The Missing Chinaman, Chi-naman, s Leon Ling at Upper Right Hia Chum, Chung Sin, and the Building in Which the Body Was Found. New York, June 2C Not In jears has a murder case excited the sentiment senti-ment of the entire country a han the awful death of Elsie Sigel. The horror In all its grewsome details is but secondary sec-ondary to the other clrcumsbanceti connected con-nected with the case. Beautiful Elsie Sigel. a charming girl, granddaughter of the faniou3 war hero, in her endeavors to atsolst the poor Chinese of Chinatown gave up many hourRfio what she and ber par-tnts par-tnts believed to be "her duty. Miss Sigel was only cne of many New York (Ills who had assisted in this work of reforming the Chinese. The mission tag been successful in bringing closer ogether the Chinese and Americans, t was one of the fundamental epdeav- j irs of the mission to lend a pereon-.11 pereon-.11 ty to Its work w'lch should have leneficlal results on the Chinamen but .Imost from the start trouble has been ucwlng. Scarcely had the mission been open-?d open-?d eight years ago when one of the rcung ladles became enamored of a origin Chinaman and her inarrlago a few mnotchs later created niurh comment com-ment over the country. This was only the beginning and many of the girls instead of converting the Chinese Chi-nese have gone to them, accepting their meager support and low morals. Elsie Sigel must have been one of fuch girls for the letters found in the room where she met her tragic end show clearly that her relationship with the t'hinaman known as Leon Ling was more than platonic. Not realizing t,"ie influence which Ling had over the fair young girl her parents par-ents encouraged this missionary work, although certain of her other relatives oppoued it, warning her that Kooner or later she would get Into trouble tn account ac-count of her intimacy with the Chinese Chi-nese mission and the Chinese. Then came the awful discover' of a body identified to be that of Mls Sigel, bruised almost beyond identification, eiu a trunk in a room over a chop uey restaurant. ' William II. I-rton, as he has been known, but whose real name Is Leon Ling, in whose rooms the body was ( found. aas disappeared from here. j |
