MURDER OF A YOUNG GIRL

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 540, 22 June 1909, Page 5

MURDER OF A YOUNG GIRL

IN NEW YORK. MISSION WORK IN CHINATOWN. ' (By Tclegraph.-Prcas Associatlon.-CoDyrlijlH) Now York, June 20. Tho body of Elsie Sigel, aged 22, who was engaged in missionary and Sunday school work in Chinatown, New' Yoik, lias been found in a trunk in a room over a Chinese restaurant, , , nhieh was occupied by a Chinanum. ■ It is supposed that tho murderer started for Vancouver, via Colon, on Juno li. Elsio Sigel was a granddaughter of 'the famous General Sigel, wlio was victorious at Carthage,. during tho American Civil War. .-'■'-

.; NEW YORK'S CHINATOWN. '-/■ : - • .The Chiuese quarter, in NewfTarfc :.city is •comprised of,three densely populated streets-. Pell, Mott, and Doyors—which, brunch off the notorious.Bowery, and containififtcon thousand inhabitants, all of which, excepting .nn occasional Chino-Europcan, are native Chinese'.' The charncteristics'of this Now .York Chiiiatown'-'are' suoh asarO.to'bo'fouild iri auy city, in'Chinai' : The pnneent odour of incense from the josshouses fills the air; the-numerous quaint- and exotic restaurants, with .'their; 'fantasticallycarved balconies, colourod Riwn, do a Wr business in sugar-cane, sharks' fins,- chop- suey. bird's-neet soiip.. and othor delicacies dear to the Oriental palate. '.The. theatre dispenses' weird mnsio; the buildings are profuso in ' external brnainentations/of carven jiightmares of dragbns and demon'sjn.red;.gold,- nud green. But underlying all' this Rarishness is a life that requires I h.i most careful police surveillanco, and which' the Church has recognised by prosecuting, jointly, a vigorous mission propaganda, in which native Chinese pastors and'HeatherS unite with European. The Midnight Chinatown Mission is one of tho most famous on the American continent, opening its doors at 10 p.m. and continuing.'until 1 o'clock after midnight, with an audioneo representing tho very dregs of Now York's "submerged." Tho murder of Miss Sigol will create a very puinful impresbu't.will; undoubtedly: compel the various -mission societies to exorcise the greatest cau-< tion in'Bcndine lady workers, unescorted, among the denizens'oi New York's most dnwgei'OHs'and least-kuown quarter. ; "-. ■ '■■ ,'. :' '■'■'■