OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK.
CABLE NEWS.
LADY MISSIONARY MURDERED. BODY DISCOVERED IN A TRUNK. United Press Association —Copyright NEW YORK, June 20. The body of Miss Elsie Si gel, aged 22, engaged as a missionary and in Sunday school work in Chinatown, New York, lias been found in a trunk in a room over a Chinese restaurant, occupied by a Chinaman. The supposed murderer started for Vancouver via Colon on June ll'th. Miss Sigel was grand-daughter of the famous General Sigel, who was victorious at Carthage in the American Civil war. [General Sigel was a German officer, who fought with distinction on the (Unionist) Federal side in the great Civil AVar. He was the popular war chief of the American Germans, of whom here w r ere several thousands in the Federal ranks.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2534, 22 June 1909, Page 5
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133OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2534, 22 June 1909, Page 5
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