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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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he place. This circumstance must notbe taken as evidence of the healthfulness of the locality. Nothingbut the unceasing vigilance of the officers, and the strictest regardto cleanliness and known sanitary laws, preserved the general goodhealth of the prisoners. The Tombs has, on more than one occasion, been pronouncedunsafe. The walls in several places are sunken to a considerableextent Not many years since a crack, fully four inches in width,which extended from the top to the bottom, was discovered in oneof the walls. It was occasioned by the sinking of some of thefoundation stones. This crack was at the time repaired, making ♦ 52 THE NEW YORK TOMBS. the building look, to the eye, as good as ever. Some day thepeople may be startled by the announcement that the City Prisonhas become a Tomb indeed. During the last year there were committed to this Prison alone30,271 prisoners—a daily average of above 83. On the 31st ofDecember, 1872, there were remaining 517 prisoners in the Tombs.
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THE PILLORY. CHAPTER V . GAMBLING.—AX ESSAY BY A CONVICT.—LIFE OF MULLIGAN. Jacques, said Defarge, judiciously show a cat milk if you wish her to thirst forit—judiciously show a dog his natural prey if you wish him to bring it down oneday.—Dickens, in Tale of Two Cities. EVER since the painted pasteboards were invented for the amuse-ment of an indolent Spanish king, gambling has had a stronghold on humanity. The turn of a card has consequently been theturn in many a mans fortune, and more unwritten dramas have beenenacted around the green baize than will be found in all of dra-matic literature from Euripides down; and siren as is the voice ofFortune at any time, it is peculiarly beguiling when it comes in theshape of the rat-tat-tat of a roulette ball or the click-click of a farocheck. We all feel this fascination for games of hazard at sometime or other, and the fever in the blood will break out now andthen in our tramp from the cradle to the grave. It makes nodifference whet

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