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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... Elsie Sigel murder case Manhattan's elevated train and subway system in 1905 Distribution of Chinese laundries throughout Manhattan in 1893 RES Lulu Shu, the white wife of a Chinese man, 1909 “New York City – The Opium Dens in Pell and ...
... Elsie Sigel murder case and was quickly inspired to investigate further. I did not know at the time that this after-hours sleuthing would one day lead me to write this book. Many thanks go to my former colleagues at the museum, who not ...
... Elsie,” which led police to suspect that the victim was nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel of 209 Wadsworth Avenue in the Washington Heights section of New York City, who had disappeared on June 9th while en route to visit her grandmother ...
... Sigel murder investigation remained in the front pages of New York City newspapers for at least a week after its ... Elsie Sigel's murder had taken the city and country by surprise. Readers throughout the nation eagerly followed the ...
... Sigel's motivation for befriending Chinese men such as the murder suspect, and more importantly, the place of ... Elsie Sigel case was only the latest among “112 Unsolved Murders in Manhattan and Bronx Alone Since Jan. 1, 1906.” The ...
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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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