Courts, Criminals and the Camorra

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Courts, Criminals and the Camorra, by Arthur Cheney Train
COURTS, CRIMINALS AND THE CAMORRA
Formerly Assistant District Attorney, New York County
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1912
Copyright, 1912, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published September, 1912
To CHARLES ALBERT PERKINS OF THE NEW YORK BAR
I.—COURTS
II.—CRIMINALS
III.—THE CAMORRA

There was a great to-do some years ago in the city of New York over an ill-omened young person, Duffy by name, who, falling into the bad graces of the police, was most incontinently dragged to head-quarters and “mugged” without so much as “By your leave, sir,” on the part of the authorities. Having been photographed and measured (in most humiliating fashion) he was turned loose with a gratuitous warning to behave himself in the future and see to it that he did nothing which might gain him even more invidious treatment.