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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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et. It had anavigable outlet into the North river, and abounded in a variety offish. The Indians made it their favorite resort, and built their vil-lages on its shores. Long before the white man placed his footupon the island the savage here cultivated his rude arts, built hissimple wigwams in clusters around the quiet water, clove its calmsurface with his bark canoe, and drew from its crystal depths thestruggling fish. What scenes of rude and barbarous sport, of joyand sorrow, of crime, cruelty and war, were here enacted longbefore the days of Hudson! In the early history of the island this collection of water wascalled by the English Fresh Water, and Fresh Water Pond.The Dutch called it Kalchhook, or Shell Point, from a largedeposit of decomposed shells, which formed a point on the westernshore. This name was afterwards abbreviated into Kalch,Callech, Colleck, Collect. The Collect Pond occupied almost the entire space whichis bounded on the north by White street, and on the south by
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94 THE NEW YORK TOMBS. Victor Hugo, in his Last days of a Condemned Man, paintsthis picture superbly. The very thoughts of the miserable wretchare reproduced in his glowing language. We shrink with horrorfrom the contemplation of the scene, and wonder, since such is thefate, how any man can commit murder. They may do those thingsbetter in France, but how is it in New York ? Let us take a stroll through Murderers Eow in the Tombs.Coming in from the pure air and warm sunshine you say, as you

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