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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... neighborhood itself. Likewise, popular depictions of these spaces and of the murder itself—through imparting moral ... neighborhoods comprising ethnically diverse populations into both cultural and spatial constructs that reinforced and ...
... neighborhoods such as Washington Heights, where the Sigel family first encountered the murder suspect Leon Ling ... neighborhood within the territories of “darkness” that encompassed other notorious poor and working-class slums of ...
... neighborhood to encourage them to attend church services or Sunday school classes." The visits, it was reported, were reciprocated. According to press interviews with the Sigels' former neighbors, Chinese “Find Miss Sigel Dead in Trunk” - ...
... 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, Elsie Sigel's ...
... neighborhood that Wednesday morning and “he induced her to go to his oriental den on Eighth Avenue.” Carey also alleged that Leon Ling often visited Sigel when her father was away; “he would wait for her at the Subway entrance at 181st ...
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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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