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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1909
Page
3
Detectives and the Sigel family traced Elsie Sigel's death through letters between Elsie and Chu Gain and Leon, with police tying motive to jealousy and a possible elopement. Washington and Baltimore officers pursued Leon’s movements, noting a delivery letter from Sam Wing and a missing bracelet, while Chu Gain was held without bail.
Chicago police received information potentially locating two New York Chinamen linked to the murder of Elsie Sigel. Descriptions matched William Leon and Chung Sinarrived at Grand Central Station from Washington and left for St Paul. They held tickets for Vancouver but refused baggage check. detectives pursue details as ships Ceylon Maru and Empress of India set to sail from Puget Sound.
Detectives Miller Dougherty and Ammick from Elizabeth Street Station raided a top floor front room on Dover Street last night arresting seven for pie gow gambling. A large sum was on the table and the locks were later bailed out by Chin San of Pell Street. Prisoners named Chin Dong Chu Gum and Yong Moi.
The Manhattan Beach Hotel opened for the Seacon last night drawing a large crowd of regular patrons. By 11 o'clock every table was filled. A new feature was Carleton's Royal British Guards Band, all members veterans who served under General Kitchener in the Soudan.
Police intensified search for William L. Leon in Greater New York with focus on Chinatown. Detectives ex amined residents and seized forty to fifty letters at Chu Gain's room over Port Arthur restaurant while residents protested invasions.
The article chronicles tensions after Elsie Sigel's disappearance and the belated identification of her body. It reports family denials, a neighbor sighting of Miss Sigel with a Chinese man named Leon, and details of an engagement to a Wyoming sweetheart. It notes letters from a supposed lieutenant, a dramatic kimono, and interactions with Chinamen seeking Mrs Sigel, including Chu Sam and Tean Chu, plus financial hints involving Chong Sin and Chu Gain.
In Porter County Indiana last night ten people died and about forty were injured when two Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend electric cars collided head on. Motorman George A Reed was killed for disobeying orders to wait for the westbound car. The eastbound train was traveling fifty miles an hour and was telescoped upon impact. Rescuers worked by lantern light, with physicians and relief trains reaching the scene carrying wounded to South Bend and Laporte.
Mabel Warren a six year old girl from Kansas City crawled into a boxcar while playing in freight yards and slept. The moving car carried her to the Denver yards where yardmen found her near death and rescued her. She was returned to her grandmother in Kansas City.
Heavy rains last week caused floods across the isthmus with extensive crop ruin. The Chagres River overflowed its banks but the canal remains undamaged and operation is unaffected.
Telegraph report from Pittsburg dated June 20 notes an Allegheny County rabies outbreak with thirty seven people under Pasteur treatment at Magee Pathological Institute Mercy Hospital. A mongrel attacked pedestrians on Wylie avenue and Fulton street biting Kalman Weber and the twelve year old Sarah Marshall. A policeman killed the dog. another dog bit a bartender.
George Geak a laborer of Linoleumville Staten Island was struck by a speeding car near his home and fatally injured the driver John L Bahl a Weehawken NJ steel rail maker was arrested later at a ferry entrance after witnesses said no warning was given and the car ran over Geak injuring his arm. he faces felonious assault charges at West Brighton station.
A collision between an interurban car and an automobile at Breazeales Crossing nine miles east of Anderson left one dead and three injured. James H. Cobb of Belton was killed. The Rev. D D Richardson of Belton and the Rev E A McDowell, aged ninety six, were among the injured. The Rev Richardson will recover as will Mrs Richardson. The Rev McDowell is a field agent for The Baptist Courier.
Edward Farrell, a chauffeur for Benjamin Bushman, was injured when his touring car rolled forward on the Queensboro Bridge after he failed to disengage the gear. He suffered a fractured right leg in two places. A bystander on the car and a passenger on a Fifth Avenue bus were also hurt by debris from a broken arc light globe.
A car carrying Mr. and Mrs. Perkins of Merchantville overturned on a road near Pemberton. Mrs. Perkins was pinned beneath the vehicle and injured internally while Mr. Perkins escaped unhurt. The incident occurred today as reported by telegraph from Mount Holly, N J.
Cambridge reports Harriet W. Bigelow of Smith College says Daniel's comet was observed on June 18 with coordinates right ascension 1h 48m 217s and declination plus 33° 13′ 2″. Additional dispatches note sightings by W. W. Campbell at Lick Observatory and W. W. Hussey at Ann Arbor, Mich, with the telescope.
Sequel to a pastor attack at St. Rocco's Newark involves two dynamite bombs aimed at the church and adjacent school and rectory. Police suspect Salvatore Mussomeci and others amid a blood feud dating to an earlier Black Hand incident. one device exploded in a basement, another near the church entrance as officers stopped it. A blood trail led to a neighboring house and a cat was wounded in the blast.
Governor Hadley traveled by special train from Jefferson City to De Soto Kansas, reaching 2:10 p m after departure at 2:00 a m. He was met by D M Smith and rushed to his father Major James Hadley who suffered a paralysis related deterioration this morning. The return trip from Jefferson City completed in under two hours.
Guthrie Ohio June 2 Suit for $1,000,000 filed against the Santa Fe Railroad Company by the Arkansas Valley Town and Land Company. The action covers more than fifty towns along the railroad. The land firm alleges an agreement to plat towns and sell sites, but says the railroad sold lots without notifying the company.
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