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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1909
Page
13
The article reports on the Elsie Sigel murder case with details from New York and Washington. It covers identification, family reactions, alleged motives involving Leon and Chu Gain, letters between Elsie and her suitors, and police actions in New York, Washington, and Baltimore. It notes funeral plans, family statements, and potential elopement theories, with ongoing investigations and arraignment developments.
Police in Chicago pursue two New York Chinamen suspected in the Elsie Sigel murder. Informant W J Conley says they arrived at Grand Central from Washington, then headed to St Paul. They held tickets to Vancouver, refused baggage check, and showed two trunks as detectives investigate. Steamships Ceylon Maru and Empress of India expected to sail from Puget Sound soon.
Yonkers police searched the city after Mrs Mary Lax reported seeing William L Leon a Chinese man matching the murder suspect image near her home at noon. Described as well built neatly dressed with a peculiar dress suitcase he showed furtive nerves and disappeared. Police theorize he fled from New York after the Elsie Sigel murder, possibly using Jerome or Webster avenue trolleys. A Chinese Sunday school exists at the First Methodist Church in Yonkers taught by young American women with missionary ties.
Detectives Miller Dougherty and Ammick from Elizabeth street station raided a top floor room in Dover street, arresting seven Chinese gamblers at pie gow. A large sum was said to be on the table. three prisoners identified themselves as Chin Dong Chu Guim and Yong Moi. Dominoes tin cups and black and white buttons were seized. bail was posted by Chin San of Pell street.
The Manhattan Beach Hotel opened for the season with a large crowd of regular patrons. By 11 o clock no table could be had. A new feature at the hotel by the sea was Carleton's Royal British Guards Band. Every member is a veteran of the British army with service under General Kitchener in the Sudan.
Police intensified the search for William L. Leon in New Yorks Chinatown after Elsie Sigels murder. Chu Gain, held as a material witness, faced cross-examination while detectives seized forty to fifty letters and a diary detailing Elsies week. Residents say Chu Gain knows more than disclosed. Leon and Chung Sin held high ranks in Chinese Free Masons.
Details swirl around Elsie Sigel case as neighbors and family dispute sightings of Leon the Chinaman. Mabel Sigel defends lack of recent contact while a Wyoming sweetheart rumor surfaces through letters signed Your old sweetheart Howard. Chinamen seek Mrs Sigel at a sanatorium as investigations touch loan relations and a missing roommate.
Ten people died and about forty were wounded when two Chicago Lake Shore South Bend electric cars collided head on in Porter County Indiana. Motorman George A Reed was killed for disobeying orders to wait for the westbound car. Many passengers aided the injured, with towns like South Bend Mishawaka Dowagiac and Hammond providing help and medical teams arriving from nearby cities.
A six year old girl Mabel Warren of Kansas City crawled into a boxcar in freight yards and slept. The car moved and she cried unseen until reaching Denver yard. Rescued by yardmen, she was sent to the police and returned to her Kansas City grandmother.
Heavy rains through the week have caused widespread crop destruction across the isthmus. The Chagres River has overflowed its banks, yet the canal remains undamaged.
An Allegheny County rabies outbreak prompts Pasteur treatment for thirty seven people at Magee Pathological Institute Mercy Hospital. A mongrel bit three persons on Wylie avenue and Townsend street. Kalman Weber and Sarah Marshall victimized. a peopleeman killed the animal. A bartender was also bitten.
George Geak a laborer of Richmond Turnpike Linoleumville Staten Island was struck by a speeding automobile near his home yesterday and fatally injured The driver fled but was later arrested at a ferry entrance giving the name John L Bahl a steel rail manufacturer from Weehawken N J He was charged with felonious assault after witnesses said there was no warning signal and the car rolled over Geak’s arm breaking it An ambulance from St Vincent's Hospital took him to care Police ordered ferry slips guarded and Eahl was held at West Brighton station pending further action
An interurban car of the Anderson Traction Company struck a stalled automobile nine miles east of Anderson at noon, killing James H. Cobb of Belton Cot ton Mills. The Rev. D P Richardson of Belton and the Rev. E A McDowell of Belton were seriously or bruised but are expected to recover. the Rev Richardson leads two local Baptist churches.
Edward Farrell, chauffeur for Benjamin Bushman of 60 West Street, was injured on the Queensboro Bridge when his touring car lurched forward after engine adjustments. His right leg was fractured in two places and another passenger on the same car was shielded by a crew member who cut the power. A separate incident on a Fifth Avenue bus injured William Milligan when a glass globe from an arc light struck his face.
Mount Holly June 2. An auto carrying Mr and Mrs E S Perkins of Merchantville overturned on a PemBer ton road. Mrs Perkins was pinned beneath the vehicle and suffered internal injuries. Mr Perkins escaped unharmed.
Harvard College Observatory reports Daniel's comet observed by Harriet W. Bigelow of Smith College on June 18 with coordinates right ascension 1h 48m 217s and declination plus 33d 13m 2s. Earlier dispatches confirm sighting by W. W. Campbell at Lick Observatory and W. J. Hussey at Ann Arbor, Mich, noting visibility with a small telescope.
In Newark a murderous feud erupts as two dynamite devices aimed at St. Roccore Church explode near the school and church entrance. Police chase suspects, including Mussomeci and Salvatore Gallo, amid a Black Hand atmosphere and a tainted past involving Father Zucarrelli and local undertaker Mussomeci. A blood trail and a harmed cat mark the investigation’s grisly scene.
Governor Hadley rushed from Jefferson City to De Soto Missouri to reach his father Major James Hadley who suffered a paralysis before noon. D M Smith met the governor at the station and conveyed him by automobile. The train from Jefferson City departed at 9:00 AM and reached De Soto at 2:10 PM, a claimed record time. The return trip reportedly took 1 hour and 55 minutes.
Guthrie Ohio June. Salt forum filed against the Santa Fe Railroad Company yesterday by the Arkansas Valley Town and Land Company. The suit involves more than fifty tours along the Santa Fe Railroad. The town site company alleges it has an agreement with the railroad to plat towns and sell the sites, and the railroad has sold lots along the right of way without notifying the land company.
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