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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... letters, written by various American women, addressed to the missing Leon Ling. Among them were thirty-five letters signed “Elsie,” which led police to suspect that the victim was nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel of 209 Wadsworth Avenue in ...
... letters” written by Elsie Sigel to Leon Ling proved to the police and reporters that the two were engaged in a serious love affair.” Clearly, they had overstepped the line separating student and teacher, but this transgression was of ...
... letters written by Elsie Sigel to him. From the press's accounts, under questioning Chu Gain told police that Leon Ling had verbally threatened him a few months earlier because he was jealous of Chu Gain's growing friendship with Sigel ...
... letter warning him to desist in his attentions toward her. Chu Gain did not at first report the incident, but suspected the sender to be Leon Ling. With this information in hand, the police quickly concluded that Leon Ling murdered ...
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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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