Professional Criminals of America

Thomas Byrnes

Cassell, Limited, 1886 - Crime - 433 pages

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Review: 1886 Professional Criminals of America

User Review  - Daniel Brandon - Goodreads

Just skimmed it, but how wonderfully and truly bizarre. Mug shots and career highlights for four hundred-odd of the nation's most "notorious" criminals as of 1886.

Review: 1886 Professional Criminals of America

User Review  - Walt - Goodreads

This is little more than a rogue's gallery of New York criminals. However, in reading through the entries one should quickly realize how fluid and dynamic the underworld was in the 1880s. The ...

Contents

• WHY THIEVES ARE PHOTOGRAPHED: 52
• DESCRIPTIONS AND RECORDS OF PROFESSIONAL CRXMINALS: 57
• SEVERAL NOTABLE FOROERS: 285
• INTERNATIONAL FORGERSSECRET HISTORY OF THE WILKES HAMILTON BECKER: 295
• OTHER NOTED CRIMINALS: 308
• BANK ROBBERIES: 337
• ExEcuTIONS IN THE TOMBS PRISON NEw YORK CITY FROM 1851 T0 I886: 368
• ADVENTURERS AND ADVENTU RESSES: 374
• OPIUM HABIT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: 381
• PAGE: 389
• LIST OF STATE PRISONS PENITENTIARIES AND REFORMATORIES IN THE STATES: 411

Bibliographic information

• Title: Professional Criminals of America; Library of American civilization
• Author: Thomas Byrnes
• Publisher: Cassell, Limited, 1886
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Feb 13, 2009
• Length: 433 pages