A NEW YORK HORROR.
MURDER IN CHINESE DEN. LADY MISSIONARY'S FATE. By Telegraph— Association.— New York, June 20. The body of Miss Elsie Sigel, aged 22, who was engaged in missionary and Sunday-school work in Chinatown, New York, has been found in a trunk in a room occupied by a Chinaman over a Chinese restaurant. The Chinaman, who is supposed to have murdered the. missioner, left New York for Vancouver, via Colon (Panama), on 11th inst. Miss Sigel is a daughter of General Franz Sigel, a German-American general, who won the battle of Carthage during the Civil war, in July, 1861.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14093, 22 June 1909, Page 5
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101A NEW YORK HORROR. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14093, 22 June 1909, Page 5
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