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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... ,” 1905 Chong Sing arriving in New York City, 1909 Police detectives in Chinatown during the Fourth of July holiday, 1909 148 151 177 181 189 202 209 Acknowledgments I have been fortunate to receive the generous support X - Illustrations.
... July Captain Galvin boasted to the press that within two months he had forced as many as two hundred white women to vacate Chinatown with the result that only six remained; these women were allowed to stay only because they possessed ...
... July 3 the police arrested Sarah Crew, a seventeen-year-old Sunday school teacher, and Yee Fulk, one of her students, at the latter's business establishment, a Chinese restaurant. The two police officers believed the place to be a ...
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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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