A pickpocket's tale : the underworld of nineteenth-century New York / Timothy J. Gilfoyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilfoyle, Timothy J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appo, George, 1856-1930.

Appo, George.

National Book Committee.

Pickpockets--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Pickpockets.

Juvenile delinquents--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Juvenile delinquents.

Crime--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Crime.

Social conditions.

History.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--19th century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Underworld of nineteenth-century New York

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2006]

Summary:

Meet George Appo, pickpocket, con man, mayor of underworld New York in the late 19th century. In Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. 60 illustrations.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0393061906

OCLC:

62679827

Publisher Number:

9780393061901