The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York CityPrinceton University Press, 21 iul. 2020 - 320 pagini In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling. |
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... Avenue, decided to report the disappearance of his cousin, Leon Ling. The two men lived in separate fourth floor apartments above the restaurant, and for nearly a week Sun Leung knocked repeatedly on his cousin's door but received no ...
... Avenue for many years.” But Elsie's family members including her father, Paul Sigel, disapproved of his wife and daughter's affiliation with the Chinese and urged them to stop their missionary activities. The press frequently played up ...
... Avenue.” Carey also alleged that Leon Ling often visited Sigel when her father was away; “he would wait for her at the Subway entrance at 181st street and St. Nicholas Avenue and they would go downtown together.” The captain was not ...
... Avenue building in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. Evidently, Dr. Kline's neighbor, Timothy Barett of 6447 Drexel Avenue, took advantage of the Sigel murder to rally his neighbors and Chicago's police and public officials to shut ...
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CHAPTER | 52 |
CHAPTER THREE | 81 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 111 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 143 |
CHAPTER | 175 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 198 |
Epilogue | 222 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 293 |
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