Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.
William F. Howe, Abraham H. Hummel
Politics & Social Sciences
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.
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DANGER!
A TRUE HISTORY OF A GREAT CITY'S WILES and TEMPTATIONS
THE VEIL LIFTED, AND LIGHT THROWN ON CRIME AND ITS CAUSES, AND CRIMINALS AND THEIR HAUNTS. FACTS AND DISCLOSURES
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
DANGER!
CHAPTER I.
ANCIENT AND MODERN PRISONS.
CHAPTER II.
CRIMINALS AND THEIR HAUNTS.
CHAPTER III.
STREET ARABS OF BOTH SEXES.
CHAPTER IV.
STORE GIRLS.
CHAPTER V.
THE PRETTY WAITER GIRL.
CHAPTER VI.
SHOP-LIFTERS.
CHAPTER VII.
KLEPTOMANIA.
CHAPTER VIII.
PANEL HOUSES AND PANEL THIEVES.
CHAPTER IX.
A THEATRICAL ROMANCE.
CHAPTER X.
A MARINER'S WOOING.
CHAPTER XI.
THE BARON AND "BARONESS."
CHAPTER XII.
THE DEMI-MONDE.
CHAPTER XIII.
PASSION'S SLAVES AND VICTIMS.
CHAPTER XIV.
PROCURESSES AND THEIR VICTIMS.
CHAPTER XV.
QUACKS AND QUACKERY.
CHAPTER XVI.
ABORTION AND THE ABORTIONISTS.
CHAPTER XVII.
DIVORCE.
CHAPTER XVIII.
BLACK-MAIL.
CHAPTER XIX.
ABOUT DETECTIVES.
CHAPTER XX.
GAMBLING AND GAMBLERS.
CHAPTER XXI.
GAMBLING MADE EASY.
CHAPTER XXII.
SLUMMING.
CHAPTER XXIII.
OUR WASTE BASKET.
Miss Ruff's Tribulations.
Astounding Degradation.
A WIFE FLIES FROM HER HUSBAND'S HOME—REVOLTING HEARTLESSNESS OF A FATHER—AN ABHORRENT TRUTH STRANGER THAN THE MOST IMAGINATIVE FICTION.
Fall of a Youthful, Beautiful and Accomplished Wife.
A French Beauty's Troubles.
A WALL STREET BROKER SUED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE AND OTHER BAD ACTS—A HANDSOME MILLINER LAYS HER DAMAGES AT TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Life on the Boston Boats.
A FAST WOMAN WRONGFULLY ACCUSED.
An Eighty-year-old "Fence."
A METROPOLITAN ECHO OF A BALTIMORE BURGLARY.
Shoppers' Perils.
INTERESTING CASE TO TRADESPEOPLE—THE PERILS TO WHICH RESPECTABLE LADIES ARE SUBJECTED TO IN CERTAIN FASHIONABLE STORES.
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