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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... Chong Sing and Leon Ling, 1909 Nelson Harding, “The Chinese Jekyll and Hyde,” 1909 Hy. Mayer, “A Raid in Chinatown Puzzle Find the Guilty One,” 1905 Chong Sing arriving in New York City, 1909 Police detectives in Chinatown during the ...
... Chong Sing, who lived in the room adjoining Leon Ling's. As the city's police force launched their manhunt, detectives worked to establish a motive to tie the chief suspect to the murder. More importantly, they sought to explain how her ...
... Chong Sing—prior to the discovery of Elsie Sigel's body, led to the mobilization of a massive manhunt spearheaded by the New York Police Department (NYPD) and assisted by police and civilians in major cities across the country and ...
... Chong Sing.” In most cases, the men were arrested after ordinary citizens matched them to the published descriptions and photographs of the missing suspects. In addition to these arrests, numerous private citizens claimed to have seen ...
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Cuprins
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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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