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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... Elsie Sigel increased physical and social mobility. To many readers this tragedy began with the arrival of Chinese businesses into white neighborhoods such as Washington Heights, where the Sigel family first encountered the murder ...
... 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 settled in New York ...
... Elsie Sigel's cousin and confidante Mabel Sigel, attempted to defend her aunt's actions and explained that Chinese men often visited her aunt at their home with requests for assistance. She, however, firmly denied that they were allowed ...
... Elsie Sigel's movements prior to her disappearance, they made even more troubling discoveries about her past associations with Chinese men. According to several friends, Sigel had also been seen in the company of Chu Gain, the Chinese ...
... Sigel. A few weeks prior to the discovery of Elsie Sigel's body, Chu Gain received an anonymous letter warning him to desist in his attentions toward her. Chu Gain did not at first report the incident, but suspected the sender to be ...
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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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