THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1909. _-- ---- EE -- - WHERE THE AWFUL MURDER OCCURR + TRUNK WwW wl WHICH BoDY 1 was Youu JOE K LEON A New York, June 23. --After of conflicting statéments, the - attorpey"s office, acting under tons from Mr. Jerome, and the po lice department, under Commissioner Bingham, refused to! night to discuss further what pro gress had been made sn the search for Leon Ling, the Chinaman, who is wanted for the murder®of Elsie Sigel, whose body was found in a trunk 'in a room over an Kighth avenue euey restaurant last Friday nor would they discuss the resuits of the examination of Chung Sin, Leon Ling's former room mate, who had | been variously reported to have wit messed the crime, to have aifed in voping the trunk, and finally Yo have seem the girl's body. have been" hourly reports parts of the country, but them, on close examination, bwing the authorities - any nearer to the mw derer, What progress has been made with Chung Sin, who underwent, this after woon, another four hows of cro questioning at the hands of Captain Carey and his men of the homicide bureau, and Mr. Ward, of the di trict attorney's office, is due as much as anything alse to the offices | of Yoon Yick-Nam, a Chinese -mer-| dhant, who volunteered as an into | preter, and in whom the policy have PERJURY CARNIVAL ® ' Whatever a Withess Swears To In | The Way Of Graft Is Promptly Denied By Another Witness Mr. Ames, M.P., Had a Chance To Have His Assess ment Reduced. » Montreal, June 23.--Ex-Alderman Ames, M. P., was one of th wit nesses at the Royal Commission to day, and his evidence was an example of the favors which are at the dispos al of mgubers of the Montreal Cita council, Mr. Ames testified that when he was first elected to the city coun vil he was asked by the city assesso if he desired the valie of his property for assessment purpose ed, but he declined the offer, that if the valuation was correct for him as a citizen it must also be_cor rect as an alderman There seems to_be a perfect of perjury going on at the investi tion amongst the members of the fire brigade. In where charges have been made evi degee diametrically opposed to that given by the witnesses to the char bas been forthcoming It would geem from the that middlemen had scouts out in the rural distriets looking up farmers with bank accounts who were willing to pay for appointments to the fire J partment. One of the witness to day testified that three-quarters of the men in his parish: which i the rural districts below Quebe members, of the Montreal five depart ment, thistriet 1Rstruc orders from thop night merely There from all none ol to, beg reduc carnival nearly every cai evidence BATTERSEA IN DRY BELT. | Presentations Methodist Minister | Battersea, June 21 This seems to be in the dry helt this summer. The good rains appear to €top within a few miles south and | west of here every time. Entrance | Two locality | again | examinations began this morning in| fo | he viHage school. A goodly number | a day every confidence It i= ithe facts or concealing Leon { to-night he is still held in | the Chinese up to the day of het avingd & « | To Retiring ! N DONG Wt NG-- oO Ne 782 EIGHTH AVENUE said he told Mrs Chyng Sin, with an earnestne that carried conviction, that ne Chinese sodiety would awd him in Ippressin Florence Todd, of the Dowery settlement for girls, "has never varied from her assertion of that belief, Chu ¥ | Galn; who lved in terror of his jeal o that, ous rival, Leon Sing, and had known ihaman ol | both the girl and her mother for vears is of the same belief. Assistant Dist | rict Attorney Ward is inclined to the theory of Quo Yidk Nam, the inter preter, who thinks that the girl was forts to run down the murdirer With | |,red to Leon's rooms by a Yeport of more to gain than to lose by the truth, Chung Sin then talked" freely, if not frankly, but that he has not been actually implicated in the itself is indicated by the fact that | the houses The chloroform, Quo believes, of detention for witnesses and not jul ed too well, and when Leon found he the Tombs, charged with could not revive Elsie he bound her atvessory in. the murder into the Whatever is the truth con cerning the information Chung Sh fered, it is practically all the have to Chu Gain, the ant proprietor, and on the contrary, every influence and responsibility in the country felt that ing disrepute om their race, anc they were all united with the police in ef the case was bring | feigned illness and there chloroformed | after Leon had been angered by her refusal to see no more of Chu Gain, his | coldness and her crime wealthier rival work. betnyg oh | with a cord and. wedged her | trunk. In support of this the pathetic and moving prayer writ ten on a mission letter head girl left for her mothar on the she went to her death. It whole theory is volice which go on vdmirer dead girl, of 'whom Leon Sin rossible, it. is argued, that a jealous, is out on £1,000 bail, pump oing on anything hut q mission could have written 'a righteou ed dry the other restaurant keeper, | such a Sun Leing, and his waite yok | note whose plac ' Iv a Captain Carey another found £100, | visit to the room where the body lay * Those who knew Elsie Sigel best | which SInCere in her | may account for the missing skirt and waist and the handkerchief which Chung says he saw between the girl's teeth, 'above to-day pai are also out on and found ashes in the stove, believe that she was mission work and her relations with missing death. OVERHAULING BAGGAGE ON THE PER June 24 similarly overhauled as far now use fine comb. metho inf cabin., baggage © is concerned carching_paengers' baggeag Je no let-up port, following the rec until the t k f smugelin vaiiation in relation to th vill to-do and respectable thorcughl erous that they will refrain from trying to keep Unel Custom wil be There custon of person of Persian Riaiih eoat ind othe made so whl on the ecamship Amer Xleamships armvit her Sam from hi own hereafter has erect hoathouse for the i candidate are writh whey Bav View immer hotel Shurtleff, M.A 15 in « ru me ed a commodion writin Julfalo f the boy to would, prefs use of his guest it ! Bill's Friday. | the new Rev. A. Shortet 1s heen t and faithful pastor in the | guests last week hodist church dur th 1st ved SN. JJ. Lake, proprietor of the Gran his farewell ws 1 House, ha sr to large congreg w paint and a cement walk "lt that the Samuel Jamieson has constructed a t permit him to remain} pew fence and a fine cement walk in riod I'he Ladies' front of his. premise a farewell party in William Keeler has also evening | the Leonard Van Luven, proprietor of } summer el in the village tertaied his first United States improved the exterior improved appearance of his residence by dl him parsonage, and during the nted him with an ade s and paint. locket, Dr. S. K. Lake has returned from ly monogrammed. The choi I-| an extensive tour through some of the ited on him and presents nd Western Ontario. beautiful gold watch fob wi a purse of money Not A Corn Left. Péck's Corn Salve as directed departure for his home ville, Que., this morning Short, of Kingston, visit week and apnounced tha not be able*to move his family r a few weeks. 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