CHAPTER XX.
| THE DETECTIVE BUREAU The Detective Bureau—Early heads—Modern methods—Crime as a science—The Dewey parade—Detectives in disguise—Old world methods—Scotland Yard and French methods—The work of the stool pigeon—Examples. | Page [171] |
CHAPTER XXI.
| THE ROGUES’ GALLERY AND THE THIRD DEGREE The Gallery—Measurement of crooks—Clippings—Up to date records—Arrests last year—Curiosities of crime—Mugging crooks—The third degree, what is it—Inspector Byrnes and Jake Sharp—The third degree in Germany. | Page [179] |
CHAPTER XXII
| THE CITY GANGS City gangs for sixty years—Political clans—The Bloody Sixth—The Whyo Gang—How they lived—Relation to crime—Paul Kelly and Monk Eastman Gangs—Their East Side pull. | Page [185] |
CHAPTER XXIII.
| CRIMINAL TRIALS AND THE GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW Noted criminal trials—Catering to depraved tastes—Some great trials—Legal loopholes—Beating the case—Many trials a farce—Swift justice for criminals—Homicide trials—Lax condition of courts—Greasing the machinery of the law—Crooks at the bar of justice—Noted criminal lawyers—Strange sentences—Examples. | Page [190] |
CHAPTER XXIV.
| CRIMINAL BRANCH OF THE SUPREME COURT The new Constitution—Abolition of the Oyer and Terminer—An exclusively criminal court—The highest Court in the State—Criminal branch of the Supreme Court in session nine months—Cases of great public importance—Narrow margin between civil and criminal law—Dead sympathies—Variety of thinking—Merging the General Sessions. | Page [202] |