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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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s great vice make a Vandal of a man*Nor should the youth forget that, if he is once overtaken in its toils,the hope of extricating himself, or of realizing his visions of wealthand happiness, is exceedingly faint. If he does not become a bank-rupt in property he is sure to become one in character. Wouldthe gamester unlock the springs of his heart, that he has presseddown as with iron—would he suffer memory and reflection to dotheir work, what tragic pictures of life might they paint for him. The first tableau in the series would be one of calm bliss andjoy—not a cloud in the heavens, save that tinged and made beauti-ful by Hope. Then the scene changes. A tearful and desertedwife, with her sobbing child, keeping watch with her lone nightlamp until the breaking of the morn. Again it changes, andhaggard misery creeps into the picture. The tears of starved andshivering children embitter the cup which Fate presses to the lipsof the gamester. Once again it changes and we see a grave—a
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