Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1909 — LING MURDERED, LATEST THEORY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LING MURDERED, LATEST THEORY

Possibility Admirer of Elsie Sigel Was Slain. ANOTHER TRUNK IN CASE One Was Shipped to Schenectady Where Chong Sing Was Arrested. Bing Is the Chinese Who Told the Police the Btory of Beeing the Missionary Girl In the Room With Leon He Is Under Arrest Btlll. New York, June 29. —Failure to find any trace whatever of Leon Ling caused the police to give some attention to the theory that the missing man may not have killed Elsie Sigel

and that he was himself the victim of the same hand that killed the gtrl. This line of reasoning necessitates the rejection of the story told by Chong Sing, who said he had seen Leon in the room over the Eighth avenue restaurant where Miss Sigel’s dead body lay, but the authorities declare that Chong’s statements have shown discrepancies with known facts in several particulars. In considering the possibility that Leon was kilted, it is regarded as probable that bis body was placed in a trunk, as was the girl’s, and this has drawn renewed attention to the baggage checked to Schenectady, N. Y., near where Chong Sing was found, and rechecked T by a Chinaman from Schenectady to Cleveland. “What about the theory that Leon is dead?' Police Inspector McCaffertv was asked.

.“Well, if Leon is dead, we have one of the men that killed him under ar rest, arid We can lay our hands on another in five minutes," he replied. All the Chinese laundries in the city, which are operated by four companies in the name of individual managers have received notices from the owners warning employes that they must have nothing to do with white women beyond business over the counter.

CHONG SING.