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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... restaurant in Chinatown, 1909 “Doyers St., 1909” Chuck Connors, “Mayor of Chinatown,” 1908 Chinese and white businesses on Pell Street, ca. 1900 “The Conversion of the Spider,” 1909 “The Real Yellow Peril,” 1909 “Chop suey” joint, 1909 ...
... restaurant at 782 Eighth Avenue, decided to report the disappearance of his cousin, Leon Ling. The two men lived in separate fourth floor apartments above the restaurant, and for nearly a week Sun Leung knocked repeatedly on his ...
... restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue near 191st Street. At that time, the Sigels resided at 188th Street, within the restaurant's vicinity. Mrs. Sigel, as part of her missionary work, occasionally called upon Chinese working in the laundries ...
... Restaurant at 9 Mott Street, a favorite restaurant among white middle-class sightseers visiting Chinatown. The police lost no time bringing Chu Gain into custody, and during intense examination by the police he admitted having “known ...
... restaurant. The two police officers believed the place to be a “Chinese resort” that was a “restaurant and gambling den” and forced their way into the back to arrest the two. Crew vehemently protested her arrest stating that she had ...
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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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