Among the summaries and analysis available for A Pickpocket's Tale, there Web['When Molly, a ten-year-old orphan, is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731, she is banished to America and serves as an indentured servant for a New York City family that expects her to follow their Jewish traditions', 'When Molly, a ten-year-old orphan, is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731, she is banished to America and serves as an The author discusses opium dens, illegal saloons, Chinese tongs, pickpockets, fences, prisons (like Sing Sing and Eastern State), city jails, criminal courts, police corruption, con games. WebAccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-02-19 04:13:56 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40364011 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled i would like to learn about 19th century new york criminals, but not from this book. WebRocco embraces his new life of crimehes good at it, and its more lucrative than banging a triangle on the street corner. she was picking a pocket of a man getting his tooth pulled. I don't feel it is quite fair for me to rate this book seeing as how it was completely different than what I expected, and not in a good way. Pretty good, dry in a couple parts but very informative. This book is structured around excerpts from the autobiography of George Appo, a petty thief in New York in the late 19th century. In the seventeen known years in which George Appo worked as a pickpocket, for example, he was arrested for and convicted of larceny four times. However, it was a very interesting history of every aspect of the criminal world of New York in the mid- to late nineteenth century. The heyday of theatrical pickpocketing came after the Second World War. WebA Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-century New York. OverDrive uses cookies and similar technologies to improve your experience, monitor our performance, and understand overall usage trends for OverDrive services (including OverDrive websites and apps). The NYC "Tenderloin District" is so named because cops were so corrupt that they could eat tenderloin steaks any where in the district. because in England every argument turned into a fight and she was scared someone would get hurt or hurt her. But when he meets Meddlin Mary, a strong-hearted Irish girl whos determined to help the horses of New York City, things begin to change.