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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, [2006], ©2006.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Appo, George, > 1856-1930.
Pickpockets > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Juvenile delinquents > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Crime > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Underworld of nineteenth-century New York.
Format: Book
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.