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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... Sunday school pupil who had become infatuated with a young white missionary and murdered her in a fit of jealousy when he learned of her growing affections for another Chinese man. As far as the public was concerned, these were the ...
... Sunday school affiliated with St. Andrew's Church on 127th Street and Fifth Avenue for many years.” But Elsie's family members including her father, Paul Sigel, disapproved of his wife and daughter's affiliation with the Chinese and ...
... Sunday school run by Dr. Minerva A. Kline in the basement of her 6446 Drexel Avenue building in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. Evidently, Dr. Kline's neighbor, Timothy Barett of 6447 Drexel Avenue, took advantage of the Sigel ...
... Sunday school, issued the order that women would no longer be allowed to teach Chinese students. Chinese Americans quickly mounted numerous protests against the ongoing harassment resulting from the increased police and press presence ...
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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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