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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... Girls' and Women's Mobility and Desires CHAPTER FOUR Playing the “Missionary Game” CHAPTER FIVE Chinese American Interracial Couples and Families in New York City CHAPTER SIX “The Most Remarkable Get-away in Police History” CHAPTER ...
... Girls, 1908 “Mission Where Elsie Sigel Met Her Slayer,” 1909 Hy. Mayer, “Just Supposing,” 1909 Robert Carter, “The Infernal Question,” 1909 “Christianized?” June 23, 1909 23 53 57 58 19 29 31 39 40 42 43 44 45 66 79 105 108 112 114 115 ...
... girl missionary.” The coverage of the Sigel murder investigation remained in the front pages of New York City newspapers for at least a week after its initial reporting, and follow-up stories continued intermittently for several months ...
... girls in that neighborhood were seen in company with young men of those nationalities.” Neighbors frowned upon the Sigels' relationships with these men and found their visits to be scandalous. In an interview with the New York Tribune ...
... girl missionary as put forth in newspaper accounts. It was indeed difficult for the victim's friends and family as well as the press to explain how it was possible for a supposedly unworldly and pious nineteen-year-old to behave in such ...
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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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