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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... 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 Chinese man, 1909 “New York City – The Opium Dens in Pell and Mott ...
... Sigel murder case and was quickly inspired to investigate further. I did not know at the time that this after-hours sleuthing would one day lead me to write this book. Many thanks go to my former colleagues at the museum, who not only ...
Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui. IN T R O DUCTION. “Find. Miss. Sigel. Dead. in. Trunk”. SEVERAL DAYS PASSED before Sun Leung, the proprietor of a “chop suey ...
... murder suspect, Leon Ling, who by Sun Leung's recollection had about a week's head start. Also absent for some time ... Sigel murder investigation remained in the front pages of New York City newspapers for at least a week after its ...
Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City Mary Ting Yi Lui. murderer. Dangled clues and red herrings tease and heighten readers ... Sigel Dead in Trunk” - 3 “Find Miss Sigel Dead in Trunk”
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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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