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100 Years Ago: Suspected Murderer Leon Ling Leads Investigators to Texas

Just about every day Marlborough Patch will highlight an interesting story from the Marlborough Daily Enterprise published on that date 100 years ago.

Nov. 23, 1911: Leon Ling May Be Fugitive in Texas: Police Think They Are on Track of Elsie Sigel's Slayer

Cleveland, Nov. 23—The arrest in Texas of Leon Ling charged with the murder in New York two years ago of Elsie Sigel is expected to follow information telegraphed to that state by the police. The murderer is said to be in hiding in the home of friends.

The information came to the officers as the result of a long feud which was responsible for the fatal shooting of Woo Dip in this city. Leon Young, a cousin of Leon Ling, was in the trouble. 

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