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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... John Kuo Wei Tchen, and Dorothy Fujita Rony who directed me to key archival sources and taught by example the importance of reexamining the turnof-the-century experiences of Chinese immigrants on the East Coast. My discussion of the ...
... John Reardon to accompany him to Leon Ling's room. With the assistance of a locksmith, Reardon managed to open the door. On entering the men immediately noticed a large bound trunk left in the center of the room and set about untying ...
... John Kane of the Woodlawn station entered the school and demanded that the school be closed immediately.” In Pittsburgh, police made a series of arrests as part of Police Superintendent McQuaide's crusade to close down the city's two ...
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17 | |
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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