A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York

Publication Data

• Title A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York
• Alternative Title Underworld of nineteenth-century New York
• Author Timothy J. Gilfoyle
• Publisher W.W. Norton
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location New York
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Appo, George, 1856-
• Crime :: New York (State) :: New York :: History :: 19th century
• Juvenile delinquents :: New York (State) :: New York :: Biography
• Pickpockets :: New York (State) :: New York :: Biography
• New York (N.Y.) :: Social conditions :: 19th century
• New York (N.Y.)

A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York by Timothy J. Gilfoyle. ISBN 9780393061901. Published by W.W. Norton in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.