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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... arrested a number of Chinese men who were present in the building when they arrived on the scene: Yee Kim, manager of the restaurant; Chin Sung, who also lived in the building; and Dong Wing of 10 Pell Street in Chinatown. Unable to ...
... arrested Chu Gain and held him for further questioning. While searching his living quarters above the Port Arthur, police found a similar collection of letters written by Elsie Sigel to him. From the press's accounts, under questioning ...
... 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 or interacted with the murder suspects ...
... arrests as part of Police Superintendent McQuaide's crusade to close down the city's two Chinese Sunday schools. On July 3 the police arrested Sarah Crew, a seventeen-year-old Sunday school teacher, and Yee Fulk, one of her students, at ...
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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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