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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... FIVE Chinese American Interracial Couples and Families in New York City CHAPTER SIX “The Most Remarkable Get-away in Police History” CHAPTER SEVEN “Disgrace on the Whole Body of Our People” Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index ix xi 17 52 ...
... Five Points area in lower Manhattan Key locations in the 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 ...
... five letters signed “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 ...
... five “love letters” written by Elsie Sigel to Leon Ling proved to the police and reporters that the two were engaged in a serious love affair.” Clearly, they had overstepped the line separating student and teacher, but this ...
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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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