Professional Criminals of America: From Gilded Age New York 9781493041961, 1493041967

Table of contents :
Professional Criminals Of America
CONTENTS
FOREWORD: TRADITION OF CRIME
PREFACE
METHODS OF PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS OF AMERICA
BANK BURGLARS
BANK SNEAK THIEVES
FORGERS
HOTEL AND BOARDING-HOUSE THIEVES
SNEAK AND HOUSE THIEVES
STORE AND SAFE BURGLARS
SHOPLIFTERS AND PICKPOCKETS
CONFIDENCE AND BANCO MEN
RECEIVERS OF STOLEN GOODS
TRICKS OF SAWDUST MEN
FRAUDS IN HORSE SALES
WHY THIEVES ARE PHOTOGRAPHED
DESCRIPTIONS AND RECORDS OF PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS
SEVERAL NOTABLE FORGERS
INTERNATIONAL FORGERS—SECRET HISTORY OF THE WILKES, HAMILTON, BECKER AND ENGLES GANG OF FORGERS—THEIR CHIEF'S CONFESSION
OTHER NOTED CRIMINALS
BANK ROBBERIES
MISCELLANEOUS ROBBERIES
MYSTERIOUS MURDERS
EXECUTIONS IN THE TOMBS PRISON, NEW YORK CITY, FROM 1851 TO 1886
ADVENTURERS AND ADVENTURESSES
OPIUM HABIT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
PRISON COMMUTATION LAWS
EXPIRATION OF SENTENCE
NEW YORK STATE
TABLES OF COMMUTATION ON SENTENCES FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR, NEW YORK STATE
FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
CONNECTICUT
GEORGIA
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
NORTH CAROLINA
OHIO
PENNSYLVANIA
RHODE ISLAND
TENNESSEE
VIRGINIA
CANADA COMMUTATION LAW
LIST OF STATE PRISONS, PENITENTIARIES, AND REFORMATORIES IN THE STATES AND TERRITORIES
ADDENDA
INDEX

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PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS OF AMERICA

Negative by Anderson, N. V.

HeliotyPe Printing Co., Boston.

PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS OF AMERICA FROM GILDED AGE NEW YORK

INSPECTOR THOMAS BYRNES FOREWORD BY R. SCOTT DECKER

Guilford, Connecticut

An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Blvd., Ste. 200 Lanham, MD 20706 www.rowman.com Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK 2019 edition published by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. Foreword © 2019 R. Scott Decker All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN 978-1-4930-4196-1 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4930-4188-6 (e-book) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

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