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Show Leon returned to New York with the body on the afternoon of June 10 and left It In his ioom. From that moment mo-ment we lose all track of him. So far as we know he had no other possible accomplice f.han Chung Sin. "Xo other murder that I can remember re-member has attracted such wide interest in-terest or such enthusiastic co-opera-. tion on the part of the police of other I cities. All the forces of the country arc at work as one great machine. We have fifty men of our own In the cities of the east. "The only possible ship on which Leon could' have left the country Is ' due to arrive in Yokahama on July 3. She will be watched. The man can not get out of the country. If he is alive we shall catch him." All the Chinese laundries in the city, which aro operated by four companies com-panies In the name of Individual managers, man-agers, received notices today In Chinese, Chi-nese, from tho owners, warning employes em-ployes that they must have nothing to do with white women except on laundry business, on pain of dismissal. HOPE TO I FfIN i i Fifty Detectives on Case McCafferty Sure of Success New York, June 29. The police cortbn thrown about the comparatively comparative-ly narrow territory comprising Peter- ! son, Passaic, Hackensack and other neighboring towns in New Jersey, is tightening today around a number of Chinamen, among whom the police hopo to find trace of Leon Ling, th supposed murderer . of - Elsie Slgel. Fifty of the best detectives of Inspector Inspec-tor 'McCafferty'K staff have been put on tfre case, and it is believed some information," so far carefulh gaurded from the public, is in the possession of t Lie police. Kansas City. June 29. Inspector of Detectives Edward Boyle here today declared that he had information from a Chinese source that Leon Ling, the alleged murderer of Elsie 'Slgel, has a brother living in St. Louis. The Information was secured, he said, from . a St. Louis Chinaman who was in Kansas City yesterday. Inspector J Boyle wired the New York and St Jxnils authorities of his discovery. New York, June 28. Inspector McCafferty, Mc-Cafferty, chief of the New York detective detec-tive bureau, gave out tonight the first authentic statement on the murder of Elsie Slgel I hat has been made by the polleo since the discovery of the girl'? body on June IS in a trunk in the bedroom of Leon Ling. j "We shall catch the murderer," the I Inspector said. "Delay does not. alter that, although it chafes us. The whole country is one vast rat trap, with every ev-ery exit guarded. ' The girl was killed June 9, and we believe that Leon Ling is the man who did it, with Chung Sin. his roommate, room-mate, as a possible accomplice. We have Chung Sin. From his room In Eighth avenue Ion Ling went straight to Washington and there sent tho 'don't worry' telegram signed 'Elsie,' 'El-sie,' received by the Sigel family on the night of the murder. From Washington Wash-ington he returned to New York and about midnight on June 9 took the body in a trunk to Newark, arriving there about 2 a. m. on June 10. Wo don't know how he look it. All available avail-able records of the various taxicab companies hae been 1 searched, but there are many privately owned machines ma-chines which keep no records. "Unable to dispose of his trunk, |