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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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ectly intelligible to those in thesecret. One of the grains getting accidentally displaced one day,by being blown away, the communication was interrupted, andthe attempt to repair the accident led to its discovery by the prisonauthorities. On another occasion he got into a large drawer in the work-shop, which was pushed to by one of the convicts. When eveningcame, and the convicts were taken to their cells, it was discoveredthat one of them was missing. The alarm was sounded and searchinstituted, but without result. At daybreak the search was re-sumed with no better success. The keepers were puzzled, but didnot relax their efforts, and extra guards were put out. Edwardsposition in the drawer was necessarily a very uncomfortable one,and, beginning to experience the pangs of hunger and thirst, hecould stand it no longer, and so he gave himself up. The Wardenordered him to be whipped, and henceforth to work with ball andchain attached to his leg, which, in addition to being very painful,
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80 THE NEW YORK TOMBS. mentous crisis. We have no doubt Governor Seward will orderan investigation at once into this most unheard of—most unparal-leled tragedy. In a further allusion to the subject, the Herald says: Whogave hem: the knife ? Persons who were alone with him in hiscell yesterday: Kev. Mr. Anthon, Dudley Selden, Samuel Colt,Caroline Henshaw, Sheriff Hart.

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