A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York, Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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Contents: The trials of Quimbo Appo -- Urchins, Arabs, and gutter-snipes -- A house of refuge at sea -- Appo on: violence -- Factories for turning out criminals -- The "guns" of Gotham -- Drafted -- Opium dens and Bohemia -- The old homestead -- The dives -- Appo on: Jack Collins -- Tombs justice -- Appo on: Good fellows -- Fences -- "That galling yoke of servitude" -- Danny Driscoll and the Whyos -- Eastern State Penitentiary -- Green goods -- Appo on: Jersey City -- Poughkeepsie -- Appo on: Stealing guys -- The Lexow Committee -- In the tenderloin -- A marked man -- Buried alive -- A genuine reformation

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