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| Preface | ||
| 1 | The Trials of Quimbo Appo | 3 |
| 2 | Urchins, Arabs, and Gutter-Snipes | 18 |
| 3 | A House of Refuge at Sea | 30 |
| Appo on: Violence | 41 | |
| 4 | Factories for Turning Out Criminals | 42 |
| 5 | The "Guns" of Gotham | 59 |
| 6 | Drafted | 73 |
| 7 | Opium Dens and Bohemia | 81 |
| 8 | The Old Homestead | 98 |
| 9 | The Dives | 110 |
| Appo on: Jack Collins | 125 | |
| 10 | Tombs Justice | 127 |
| Appo on: Good Fellows | 142 | |
| 11 | Fences | 146 |
| 12 | "That Galling Yoke of Servitude" | 157 |
| 13 | Danny Driscoll and the Whyos | 178 |
| 14 | Eastern State Penitentiary | 196 |
| 15 | Green Goods | 204 |
| Appo on: Jersey City | 223 | |
| 16 | Poughkeepsie | 226 |
| Appo on: Stealing Guys | 241 | |
| 17 | The Lexow Committee | 243 |
| 18 | In the Tenderloin | 260 |
| 19 | A Marked Man | 271 |
| 20 | Buried Alive | 285 |
| 21 | A Genuine Reformation | 300 |
| Epilogue: The Finest Crook | 315 | |
| Acknowledgments | 325 | |
| Appendixes | 331 | |
| 1 | New York State Male Prison Populations, 1870-1900 | 331 |
| 2 | New York State Prison Expenditures, 1866-1900 | 332 |
| 3 | Sing Sing Death and Insanity Rates, 1870-1900 | 333 |
| 4 | Auburn Death and Insanity Rates, 1870-1900 | 334 |
| 5 | Clinton Death and Insanity Rates, 1870-1900 | 335 |
| Notes | 337 | |
| Illustration Credits | 435 | |
| Index | 439 |
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