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Author Gilfoyle, Timothy J.

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

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2006]
©2006
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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.162 GI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 .
Subject 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.
Added Title Underworld of nineteenth-century New York
ISBN 0393061906 hardcover
Standard No. 9780393061901
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