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Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations. The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its causes and Criminals and Their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures

Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations. The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its causes and Criminals and Their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures

by William F. Howe

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Author
Hummel, Abraham H., 1849-1926
Title
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.
Language
English
LoC Class
HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
Subject
Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 24717
Release Date
February 29, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.DANGER!
  2. 2.A TRUE HISTORY OF A GREAT CITY'S WILES and TEMPTATIONS — THE VEIL LIFTED, AND LIGHT THROWN ON CRIME AND ITS CAUSES, AND CRIMINALS AND THEIR HAUNTS. FACTS AND DISCLOSURES — BY HOWE & HUMMEL. BUFFALO: THE COURIER COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1886
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL — DANGER!
  6. 6.C HAPTER I. — ANCIENT AND MODERN PRISONS.
  7. 7.C HAPTER II. — CRIMINALS AND THEIR HAUNTS.
  8. 8.C HAPTER III. — STREET ARABS OF BOTH SEXES.
  9. 9.C HAPTER IV. — STORE GIRLS.
  10. 10.C HAPTER V. — THE PRETTY WAITER GIRL.
  11. 11.C HAPTER VI. — SHOP-LIFTERS.
  12. 12.C HAPTER VII. — KLEPTOMANIA.
  13. 13.C HAPTER VIII. — PANEL HOUSES AND PANEL THIEVES.
  14. 14.C HAPTER IX. — A THEATRICAL ROMANCE.
  15. 15.C HAPTER X. — A MARINER'S WOOING.
  16. 16.C HAPTER XI. — THE BARON AND "BARONESS."
  17. 17.C HAPTER XII. — THE DEMI-MONDE.
  18. 18.C HAPTER XIII. — PASSION'S SLAVES AND VICTIMS.
  19. 19.C HAPTER XIV. — PROCURESSES AND THEIR VICTIMS.
  20. 20.C HAPTER XV. — QUACKS AND QUACKERY.
  21. 21.C HAPTER XVI. — ABORTION AND THE ABORTIONISTS.
  22. 22.C HAPTER XVII. — DIVORCE.
  23. 23.C HAPTER XVIII. — BLACK-MAIL.
  24. 24.C HAPTER XIX. — ABOUT DETECTIVES.
  25. 25.C HAPTER XX. — GAMBLING AND GAMBLERS.
  26. 26.C HAPTER XXI. — GAMBLING MADE EASY.
  27. 27.C HAPTER XXII. — SLUMMING.
  28. 28.C HAPTER XXIII. — OUR WASTE BASKET. — M iss Ruff's Tribulations. — A stounding Degradation. — A WIFE FLIES FROM HER HUSBAND'S HOME—REVOLTING HEARTLESSNESS OF A FATHER—AN ABHORRENT TRUTH STRANGER THAN THE MOST IMAGINATIVE FICTION. — F all of a Youthful, Beautiful and Accomplished Wife. — A French Beauty's Troubles. — A WALL STREET BROKER SUED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE AND OTHER BAD ACTS—A HANDSOME MILLINER LAYS HER DAMAGES AT TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. — L ife on the Boston Boats. — A FAST WOMAN WRONGFULLY ACCUSED. — A n Eighty-year-old "Fence." — A METROPOLITAN ECHO OF A BALTIMORE BURGLARY. — S hoppers' Perils. — INTERESTING CASE TO TRADESPEOPLE—THE PERILS TO WHICH RESPECTABLE LADIES ARE SUBJECTED TO IN CERTAIN FASHIONABLE STORES.

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