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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... police station. After rushing to inspect the scene, Captain Post notified the Detective Bureau at police headquarters and duly turned over the investigation to Captain Arthur Carey of the Homicide Bureau.” By the end of the day, the ...
... police set off to apprehend the chief murder suspect, Leon Ling, who by Sun Leung's recollection had about a week's head start. Also absent for some time and wanted for questioning was Chong Sing, who lived in the room adjoining Leon ...
... police investigation that often leads into the final courtroom trial where all secrets are divulged. In retelling the courtroom drama, the historian weighs each piece of testimony and evidence entered into the court record, showing us ...
... police's discovery of a packet of thirty-five “love 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 ...
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Cuprins
CHAPTER | 17 |
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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