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The New York Tombs Inside and Out

by John Josiah Munro

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  1. 1Introduction. By Rev. Madison C. Peters, D. D
  2. 2Thanks
  3. 3Contents
  4. 4Foreword Some Personal Experiences
  5. 5Chapter I — What I Know About the Tombs
  6. 6Chapter II — An Historical Account of America’s Most Famous Prison
  7. 7Chapter III — Modern Excuses for Crime
  8. 8Chapter IV — How Criminals Are Made
  9. 9Chapter V — The Scientific Criminal
  10. 10Chapter VI — Some Famous Tombs Prisoners
  11. 11Chapter VII — The Dangerous Educated Crook
  12. 12Chapter VIII — Leaves from the History of a Checkered Career
  13. 13Chapter IX — The Autobiography of a Crook
  14. 14Chapter X — Wandering Stars and Buzzards of the Tombs
  15. 15Chapter XI — Noted Experts in Forgery
  16. 16Chapter XII — Changing the Grand Jury into a Bureau of Criminal Exp…
  17. 17Chapter XIII — Schools of Crime
  18. 18Chapter XIV — Youthful Delinquents and the Children’s Court
  19. 19Chapter XV — The Rod as a Reformative Agent in the Education of You…
  20. 20Chapter XVI — Crime Among Women
  21. 21Chapter XVII — The Steal or Starve Unfortunates
  22. 22Chapter XVIII — How Young Men Break into Prison
  23. 23Chapter XIX — Our Police Guardians
  24. 24Chapter XX — The Detective Bureau
  25. 25Chapter XXI — The Rogues Gallery and the Third Degree
  26. 26Chapter XXII — The City Gangs
  27. 27Chapter XXIII — Criminal Trials and the Glorious Uncertainty of the…
  28. 28Chapter XXIV — Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court
  29. 29Chapter XXV — Scenes in Our Police Courts
  30. 30Chapter XXVI — Sharks and Shysters of Our Criminal Courts
  31. 31Chapter XXVII — Crooked Crooks in Prison
  32. 32Chapter XXVIII — Scenes During Visiting Hours in the Tombs
  33. 33Chapter XXIX — Does Imprisonment Reform?
  34. 34Chapter XXX — Strong Drink and Crime
  35. 35Chapter XXXI — The Angels of the Tombs
  36. 36Chapter XXXII — Weddings in the Tombs Prison
  37. 37Chapter XXXIII — After Sentence, What?
  38. 38Chapter XXXIV — The Infliction of the Death Penalty in the Tombs
  39. 39Chapter XXXV — A Visit to the Death House at Sing Sing
  40. 40Chapter XXXVI — A Tramp Colony
  41. 41Chapter XXXVII — The Cost of Crime in Greater New York
  42. 42Chapter XXXVIII — The Age of Graft

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