The New York Tombs Inside and Out!

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Author

Munro, John Josiah

Title

The New York Tombs Inside and Out! Scenes and Reminiscences Coming Down to the Present. A Story Stranger Than Fiction, with an Historic Account of America's Most Famous Prison.

Credits

E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Halls of Justice (New York, N.Y.)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 63641

Release Date

November 5, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.───────── THE ───────── New York Tombs Inside and Out!
2. 2.INTRODUCTION. By Rev. Madison C. Peters, D. D.
3. 3.THANKS.
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.FOREWORD Some Personal Experiences
7. 7.CHAPTER I WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE TOMBS — Whiskey, Gambling and Other Privileges — Steerage — The Prison Food — Abusing the Unfortunates — Special Privileges — The Grand Jury — Politics and the Prisons
8. 8.CHAPTER II AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS PRISON — Retrospect — The New City Prison
9. 9.CHAPTER III MODERN EXCUSES FOR CRIME
10. 10.CHAPTER IV HOW CRIMINALS ARE MADE
11. 11.CHAPTER V THE SCIENTIFIC CRIMINAL
12. 12.CHAPTER VI SOME FAMOUS TOMBS PRISONERS
13. 13.CHAPTER VII THE DANGEROUS EDUCATED CROOK
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII LEAVES FROM THE HISTORY OF A CHECKERED CAREER
15. 15.CHAPTER IX THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CROOK
16. 16.CHAPTER X WANDERING STARS AND BUZZARDS OF THE TOMBS — The Untruthful Crook — Dark Records — Kahn, The Black-Hearted Syrian — A Crook Whose Specialty Was Knock-Out Drops — A Young Man Whose Craze Was In Slashing Ladies’ Dresses
17. 17.CHAPTER XI NOTED EXPERTS IN FORGERY — Three of a Kind — The King of Forgers
18. 18.CHAPTER XII CHANGING THE GRAND JURY INTO A BUREAU OF CRIMINAL EXPERTS — Board of Criminal Experts — How I Would Classify Criminals
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII SCHOOLS OF CRIME
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV YOUTHFUL DELINQUENTS AND THE CHILDREN’S COURT — The Children’s Court — The Origin of the Children’s Court
21. 21.CHAPTER XV THE ROD AS A REFORMATIVE AGENT IN THE EDUCATION OF YOUTHFUL LAW BREAKERS
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI CRIME AMONG WOMEN — The Cadet System — (2) The Women of The Tombs — (3) The Modern Shoplifter
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII THE STEAL OR STARVE UNFORTUNATES
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII HOW YOUNG MEN BREAK INTO PRISON
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX OUR POLICE GUARDIANS — The Policeman and His Work
26. 26.CHAPTER XX THE DETECTIVE BUREAU — The Stool Pigeon
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI THE ROGUES GALLERY AND THE THIRD DEGREE — The Third Degree
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII THE CITY GANGS
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII CRIMINAL TRIALS AND THE GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW — Greasing the Machinery of the Law — Crooks at the Bar of Justice — Noted Criminal Lawyers — Strange Sentences
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV CRIMINAL BRANCH OF THE SUPREME COURT — The Court of General Sessions
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV SCENES IN OUR POLICE COURTS
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI SHARKS AND SHYSTERS OF OUR CRIMINAL COURTS
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII CROOKED CROOKS IN PRISON — Bold Counterfeiters in Auburn Prison
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII SCENES DURING VISITING HOURS IN THE TOMBS
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX DOES IMPRISONMENT REFORM?
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX STRONG DRINK AND CRIME
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI THE ANGELS OF THE TOMBS
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII WEDDINGS IN THE TOMBS PRISON
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII AFTER SENTENCE, WHAT? — Prison Classification — A Real Prison Reformer
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV THE INFLICTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE TOMBS
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV A VISIT TO THE DEATH HOUSE AT SING SING
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI A TRAMP COLONY
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVII THE COST OF CRIME IN GREATER NEW YORK
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE AGE OF GRAFT.

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