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Show THOUGHT TOflAYE It Is Rumored Leon Ling Shipped on Arizonian ! as One of Crew Norfolk. Va., June 25- The Hawaiian Ha-waiian steamship Arizona, which sailed sail-ed from Norfolk yesterday, bound for San Francisco, has abroad Leon Ling or Lang, who was signed as a member of the vessel's Chinese crow In Ne York, June 11. Yesterday, the vessel finished taking on a full cargo of gov ernment coal rnr the "Pacific coast. The Arizona passed out the Virginia capes early today, having been aground several hours on Bush Bluff shoals, where she stuck in passing out of the lower harbor last night. During the vessel's stay here, a strange Chinaman was seen walking about the city. He did not mix with any of his fellow countrymen, and nothing could be learned of him. Yesterday Yes-terday Detective Wright of the Norfolk Nor-folk police department, got trail of the stranger,' who seems to answer In many details the description of El6ie Sigel's . murderer, and followed hlra to Lambert's Point, but arrived at the coal piers Just after the Arizona had left on her long voyage to San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The detective was told that the Chi-1 naman for whom he was searching was aboard the outgoing steamer. The name of Leon Ling or Lang appears , among the list of the crew of the Ari-zona, Ari-zona, which was filed by the master of tjie eteamer in the office of the collector col-lector of customs. While the age of j Elsie Sigel's murderer is given from New York as 35 years, the age 'of . Leon Ling, or Lang, aboard the Arizona Ari-zona is given as 37 years.. The Arizona, which passed Car0 ! Henry outward bound at 8:15 o'clock! this morning, was this afternoon only a short distance down the North Carolina Car-olina coast, probably off Cape Hat-teras Hat-teras and Diamond shoal. ' New York, June 25. Ling, or Lang, is only one of three Chinamen signed as members of the crew of the Arl-zonian, Arl-zonian, which, up to this time, has been plying between New York, Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Mexican ports in the sugar sug-ar trade. Site is now to run between San Francisco and Hawaii. The first port, at which the Arizonian is likely to stop on her wav southward, Is St. Lucia, in the British West Indies, but being an oil burner, it is quite possible pos-sible she will make no stop until Punta Arenas, n tho straits of Magellan, Magel-lan, is reached. . Chu Gain, the restaurant proprietor, made an attempt to leave the city todav. to-dav. His attorney told the coroner that his client was under $1,000 ball and was willing to furnish another $1,000 if allowed to go to Atlantic Citv, where he had long planned to attend at-tend a summer school. Permission was refused. New York. June' 25. The only Chinaman Chi-naman aboard the Arizonian whose-name whose-name resembled that of Leon was the second cook, Leon Sang. He could not have been Leon Ling, tho man wanted, as h was a member of tie steamer's crew when she arrived here April 25. As Leon Ling was 35 years old, and was nexcr known to have served as a sailor, the police believe ho could not bo the man wanted. 1 |
