THE CHINATOWN OUTRAGE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2537, 25 June 1909, Page 5

THE CHINATOWN OUTRAGE

ALLEGED MURDERER’S COUSIN ARRESTED. CONFESSES TO WITNESSING THE DEED/ United Press Assv-ciat on—Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO, June 23. Chong Sing, a cousin of Leong, Miss Elsie ■ Seigel’s alleged murderer, has been arrosted. He confesses that he witnessed the strangling of Miss Seigel, and helped to put a rope on the trunk in which the body of the young lady was found. [The Chinese quarter in New York city is comprised of threo densely populated streets —Pe l, Mott, and Dovers—which brancli off the notorious Bowery, and contain fifteen thousand inhabitants, all of which, excepting an occasional Chino-European, are native Chinese. The characteristics of this New York Chinatown are such as are to be found in any city in China. The pungent odour of incense from the josshouses fills the air ; : the numerous quaint and exotic restaurants, with their fantastically-carved balconies, oolored green, do a big business in sugarcane, sharks’ fins, chop supy, birds’nest soup, and other delicacies dear to the Oriental palate. The theatre dispenses weird music; the buildings are profuse in external ornamentations of carven nightmares of dragons and demons in red, gold, and green. But underlying all this garishness is a life that requires the most careful police surveillance, and which the Church has recognised by prosecuting, jointly, _ a vigorous mission propaganda, in which native Christian pastors and teachers unite with European. The Midnight Chinatown Mission is one of the most famous on the American continent, opening its doors at 10 p.m., and continuing until 1 o’clock after midnight, wtih an audience representing the very dregs of Now York’s ‘submerged.” The murder of Miss Sigol will create a very painful impression, but will undoubtedly compel the various mission societies to exercise the greatest caution in-sending lady workers, unescorted, among the denizens of New York’s most dangerous aiad least-known quarter.]