Murder tale of Elsie Sigel unfolds in Chinatown crime
The body found in a fourth floor trunk is identified with Elsie Sigel, daughter of Paul Sigel, after autopsy suggests possible poisoning and smothering. Investigators probe Leon Ling and Sun Leung’s Chinatown rooms, uncovering letters, portraits, and ties to the Chinese Empire Reform Association as relatives seek identity and motive amid family distress.
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Sigel
Mises Sigel
Chinatown
Eighth Avenue
Leon
Wedleigh High School
Tiger Cycle Company
Upper Broadway
Sun Leung
Leung
Elsie
Nellie
Brooklyn
Chinatown Hunted as Leon Goes Missing After Sigel Death
Police led by Captain Mike Galvin scoured Chinatown after the death of Misa Elsie Sigel and the suspected Chinese killer Leon. Residents offered no help, a Boston man and Gin Gum recalled the fugitive, and hundreds of Chinese left town for Vancouver amid the manhunt. Talks centered on whether Leon would be sheltered by Free Mason circles or faced punishment from kin.
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Misa Elsie Sigel
Chinatown
Mike” Galvin
Elizabeth Street
Leon
Pell Street
Captain Galvin
Galvin
Garvin
Tom Lee
Boston
Gin Gum
Thuredar
Vancouver
British Columbia
New York
Chineman
Léon
Ehut
Murder case of Elsie Sigel dominates city coroner’s court
Coroner Harburger remands three men to the House of Detention in default of $1,000 bail as material witnesses in the Elsie Sigel murder. The unidentified body lies in the morgue awaiting identification as police seek friends of the victim. Autopsy suggests death by poison and possible asphyxia. Organ and stomach samples sent to Professor Ferguson at Columbia University for poison tests. A new witness, Clifford Losey, identifies Wing as the man with a gold tooth, leading to his detention.
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Harburger
Hanlon
Reginald Sigel
Elsie
Stel
Miss Sigel
Elsie Sigel
O'Hanlon
Acriteill
George H. Ferguson
Columbia University
Ferguson
West 42d Street
On Wing
Sun Leung
Eighth Avenue
Clifford Losey
Neptune Avenue
Coney Island
Leung
Losey
Wing
No. 1
Pell Street
Ye Kim
No 216
Bowery
Leon
Chin Song
Leng
Sigel
Chinese Cadets and Name Changes Linked to Leon Case
Newspaper reports that the Chinese Empire Reform Association Cadets, once disbanded for treaty violations, trained by Major George McVicker, included William L. Leon in name-change lore. The group, led by Kang Yu Wei and once active in multiple U.S. cities, is said to have dispersed cadets back to China.
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William L. Leon
Chinese Empire Reform Association
George McVicker
Boys’ Club
St. Bary
Holomew
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Washington
Bridgeport
Conn
Homer Lea
China
McVicker
Girls Die Together In Apparent Suicide Pact
Springfield H June 19 Two 17 year old girls Jessie Cole and Katherine died at their homes after swallowing carbolic acid in a suicide pact. Police had gone to bring Jessie back to her parents from whom she was estranged. The pair reportedly preferred death to separation and had planned the act to occur if the code demanded it.
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the Tribune
Springfield
Jessie Cole
Katherine
Miss Bender
Jessie Cols
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Port George
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Co. 1
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Penn
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Murray Hill
East 42d St
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Berlin
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