THE   SINS   OF   NEW   YORK




                         As  "Exposed" by the Police Gazette

                       By:   Edward  Van  Emery


                    C   O   N   T   E   N   T   S






Foreword  by  the  Author










Introduction..INTRODUCTION  BY  FRANKLIN P. ADAMS (F.P.A.)















P A R T   I

             THE ORIGINAL POLICE GAZETTE  (1845)









  1.   The Moralizing Muckraker





  2.   The Publican, The Pewterer, & the Pugilist
  (An astounding Case of Mistaken Identity)





  3.   Virginia of Virginia
  (Red-Hot Mamma of the Forties)





  4.   Gough and the Gazette
  (The Trials of the Tippling Temperance Talker.





  5.   The Merry Yuletide Murder
 (Thrice Tried, Once Convicted, Polly Bodine Escapes Gallows.)





  6.   When Men were --Manhandlers
 (About John Morrissey & Murder, Bill Poole & Politics.)





  7.   The Mansion Built on Baby Skulls
 (Why Madame Restell Added Her Own Life to the 
   Many She Had Taken.).





  8.   The Most Beautiful Illicit Love Tragedy
 (Murder in the Tribune Office, Death Drama in the 
  Astor House, and Travesty in the Court of Justice).





  9.   The Most Revolting Unsolved Murder Mystery
   (The Case of Many Clews That Led Nowhere and the 
    $50,000 Reward That Was Never Claimed.)
















P A R T   I I

            THE  RICHARD  K. FOX  GAZETTE   (1876)









  1.   The Pale Pink Picture Periodical





  2.   Glimpses  of  Gotham
 (Peregrinations & Perceptions of Paul Prowler)





  3.   Up Hill's & Down the Road to McGlory's
 (With Stops at the Bal Mabille, the Bowery Bastile 
  and other Nice Places)





  4.   Veracities From Vice's Varieties
 (The Big Bandit & Yegg Men & Racketeer Stars of the Seventies)





  5.   They Let George Do It.
 (Hanging Artistically Performed, Satisfactory Work Guaranteed)





  6.   Crib Dies Like A Dog
 (How Pilot, the New York Brindle, 
  Won the American Championship)





  7.   Mr. Sullivan & Mr. Fox
(How the Sport of Boxing Came to Be Big Business)





  8.   Denizens and Depravities of the Deadly Dives
(A Tour of the Five Points, the River Dens, & the Bowery 
 When It Was the Bowery)







Sins of New York
As "Exposed" by the Police Gazette
By Edward Van Every
Publisher:  Frederick A. Stokes Company--New York
Copyright: 1930  3 Printings  October 15, October 23 and October 30.


Transcribed, Prepared & Contributed Exclusively by 
Miriam Medina For the Brooklyn Information Page
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