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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... police quickly concluded that Leon Ling murdered Sigel out of jealousy.” While the discovery that Sigel was on intimate terms with two Chinese men provided the police with a motive and prime suspect for murder, it was nonetheless a ...
... Police Commissioner Theodore Bingham to police departments in major metropolitan areas across the United States. This description of Leon Ling—emphasizing his good looks and “Americanized” dress and manners—formed the general public's ...
... police and civilians alike. The national and international manhunt for the prime suspect and the widespread publicity generated by the press combined to draw police and ordinary citizens throughout the country into the search for Leon ...
... police made a series of 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 ...
... police harassment. Nonetheless, fearing further trouble from the police, Rev. Dr. Warren G. Partridge, a pastor of a church with a Chinese Sunday school, issued the order that women would no longer be allowed to teach Chinese students ...
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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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