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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... woman with a piece of rope around her neck.” Reardon lost no time sending word of his discovery to Captain Post back at the West Forty-seventh Street police station. After rushing to inspect the scene, Captain Post notified the ...
... WOMAN IN THE TRUNK Elsie Sigel, the young woman found inside Leon Ling's trunk, was hardly a typical New Yorker but instead the granddaughter of a wellknown Civil War general in the Union army, Franz Sigel. After the war, Franz Sigel ...
... woman married to or cohabitating with a Chinese man. The usual reasons given for these relationships—drug addiction, economic necessity, white slavery, etc.—did not hold in this case. The public's vigorous response to the murder ...
... woman named “Elsie,” who had married Chu Wing, a prosperous Chinese laundry owner, in St. Louis seven years earlier. The coincidence of her name and Meloney's emphasis on her education and respectable middle-class family origins made ...
... woman to get over that wall and back to our own kind,” and that was only through the help of a newspaper man who had come across her while working on a story." The man worked incessantly to persuade her to leave with him so that she ...
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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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