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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... press interviews with the Sigels' former neighbors, Chinese and Japanese men frequently visited the Sigel family at their home. The New York Herald reported that some neighbors even went so far as to claim that “Chinese and Japanese ...
... press's accounts, under questioning Chu Gain told police that Leon Ling had verbally threatened him a few months earlier because he was jealous of Chu Gain's growing friendship with Sigel. “Find Miss Sigel Dead in Trunk” - 9.
... press to explain how it was possible for a supposedly unworldly and pious nineteen-year-old to behave in such an openly coquettish manner. The press attempted to track Sigel's movements to Leon Ling's room to reveal the truth about her ...
... press that within two months he had forced as many as two hundred white women to vacate Chinatown with the result that only six remained; these women were allowed to stay only because they possessed marriage licenses.” Such measures ...
... Press and Leader, stories concerning the Sigel murder case could be readily found.” Many of the nation's major newspapers carried the NYPD's official descriptions and photographs of the two suspects, allowing readers to assist in their ...
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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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