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.
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The New York Tombs Inside and Out!, by John Josiah Munro
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John J. Munro Ex-chaplain of the Tombs.
Scenes and Reminiscences Coming Down to the
Present.—A Story Stranger Than Fiction,
With an Historic Account of
America’s Most Famous
Prison.
JOHN JOSIAH MUNRO,
Ex-Chaplain of the Tombs.
( Illustrated )
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
John Josiah Munro
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THANKS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
CONTENTS.
Whiskey, Gambling and Other Privileges
Steerage
The Prison Food
Abusing the Unfortunates
Special Privileges
The Grand Jury
Politics and the Prisons
Retrospect
The New City Prison
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
Three of a Kind
The King of Forgers
Board of Criminal Experts
How I Would Classify Criminals
The Children’s Court
The Origin of the Children’s Court
The Cadet System
(2) The Women of The Tombs
(3) The Modern Shoplifter
The Policeman and His Work
The Stool Pigeon
The Third Degree
Greasing the Machinery of the Law
Crooks at the Bar of Justice
Noted Criminal Lawyers
Strange Sentences
The Court of General Sessions
Bold Counterfeiters in Auburn Prison
Prison Classification
A Real Prison Reformer
