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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... Leon Ling, 1909 Nelson Harding, “The Chinese Jekyll and Hyde,” 1909 Hy. Mayer, “A Raid in Chinatown Puzzle Find the Guilty One,” 1905 Chong Sing arriving in New York City, 1909 Police detectives in Chinatown during the Fourth of July ...
... 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 response. A foul odor emanating from the room finally ...
... Leon Ling, who by Sun Leung's recollection had about a week's head start. Also absent for some time and wanted for questioning was Chong Sing, who lived in the room adjoining Leon Ling's. As the city's police force launched their ...
... Leon Ling, the chief murder suspect, in the end eluded all attempts to bring about his capture; for both New York's police and all subsequent historians, Leon Ling disappeared into thin air. Without him, there would be no courtroom ...
... Leon Ling. Sigel's decision to leave the protection of her comfortable, white middleclass surroundings in upper Manhattan and accompany Leon Ling to explore the immoral and criminal underside of Chinatown in working-class lower ...
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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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