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Title: The New York Tombs; its secrets and its mysteries. Being a history of noted criminals, with narratives of their crimes
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Sutton, Charles Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NC Mix, James B., editor Mackeever, Samuel Anderson, 1848-, editor
Subjects: Manhattan Detention Complex (New York, N.Y.) Crime
Publisher: New York, United States Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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LUDLOW-STREET JAIL. Mr. Tremain asked the witness whether he drank anything.To which he replied that he has been a temperance man fortwenty years, and drinks nothing but soda-water and sarsaparilla. The witness then related how on the way to the House of De-tention Thomas Hart told him he expected, besides the $1,000from Mr. Powers, Mrs. Fisk would pay him.
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MAP OF COLLECT POND, GIVING THE PRESENT SITE OF THE TOMBS,AS DRAWN BY JOHN CANTER, THE COUNTERFEITER.—SEE PAGE 259. 662 APPENDIX. and establish honesty, industry, and virtue in their stead ; causethe prisoner to heartily co-operate in his own reform by showinghim that those placed over him are his friends, and that theirbest efforts are enlisted for his welfare. After a prisoner has once had the advantages of this divisionand, if he then return to crime, he must not be allowed to enterhere the second time. A second division should be arranged for the incarceration ofthe milder cases of second offence and older criminals; here thesystem should be different, discipline stern and exacting. A chanceshould here be offered to reform, but the privileges should be fewand labor constant without task or reward. For cases that have failed here a third division should be ar-ranged. In this I would imprison all cases for third convictions,,long-term burglars, cases of manslaughter, arson, robber

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