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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 SOCIAL GLASS AT DAILYS. A few days following the conviction of Stokes he was broughtbefore Judge Davis and committed to the Tombs for contempt ofcourt, where he was detained for sixty days and compelled to paya light fine. He occupied the cell vacated by Stokes. WardenJohnson, between Stokes and whom there was not the mostamiable feeling, now that Stokes had been condemned, removedhim to a cell on the ground-floor, there to await his transfer tothe State Prison. Early on the morning of Nov. 1st, three days after his convic-tion, Deputy Sheriffs Shields and Cahill called at the cell-door ACCEPTS THE SITUATION. 579 of Stokes, and told him to prepare for his departure to Sing Sing.Stokes was surprised, believing he would be allowed a longertime to make his final arrangements, but he never murmured.Stoical to the last, he hastily gathered together his papers bear-ing on his case, many of which were documents the world hadnot yet heard of, and stepped out in the corridor. He lit a cigar
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A CONVICT AT THE HOSPITAL WINDOW. and stood with his back to the stove, coolly anticipating the firstact of degradation that was to remind him that he was now a felon.The deputy, who had walked many a mile with him in theTombs yard, while taking his daily exercise, approached himwith the handcuffs, and as Stokes put out his arm and bared hiswrist, he looked up to the skylight to conceal his emotion. The 580 STOKES LEAVES THE PESTILENTIAL TOMBS.

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