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

Publication Info.	New York : W.W. Norton, [2006]
	©2006

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HV6653.A66 G55 2006	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject	Appo, George, 1856-1930.
	Appo, George, 1856-1930.
	Pickpockets -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	Pickpockets.
	New York (State) -- New York.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Juvenile delinquents -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	Juvenile delinquents.
	Crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Crime.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	National Book Committee.
	Social conditions.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Added Title	Underworld of nineteenth-century New York
ISBN	0393061906 hardcover
Standard No.	9780393061901