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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... Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui P R IN C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y. P R E S S P R I N C E T O N A N D O X F O R D Copyright © 2005 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton.
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... press attention focused on this case, Elsie Sigel's murder had taken the city and country by surprise. Readers throughout the nation eagerly followed the developments of both the police and investigative journalists in their efforts to ...
... press accounts of Sigel's wanderings reaffirmed the division of the city's neighborhoods into a distinct moral geography of territories of “daylight” and “darkness” that had been popularized by tourist guidebooks, newspapers, and ...
... press further alleged that the victim at a young age had been introduced by her mother to Protestant missionary work among the city's Chinese inhabitants. Mrs. Sigel had taught at the Chinese Sunday school affiliated with St. Andrew's ...
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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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