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b a b a b a b a b a sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss Abner B. Newcomb Ann Trow Lohman Anthony Comstock Peter Ellis aka Banjo Bill Gurney aka “Big detective sssssssssssabortionist postalsssssssssss inspector, moral crusader Pete aka Luther aka Big Bill” the Queersman aka asssssssssss b Pete aka Peter Emerson 1833-unknown. The son of suc- a b a b Big Bill the Koniacker 1812-78. Emigrated to New York 1844-1915. Founded the N.Y. So- thief counterfeit, thief, cracksman cessful parents, was writing for in her teens, married Charles Lo- ciety for the Suppression of Vice sssssssssss sssssssssss Boston newspapers by age 17, a b a b hman, freethinker and friend of and lobbied Congress to pass the Ca. 1845-unknown. Minstrel- was made editor of the Rockland Comstock Law prohibiting dis- Life dates unknown. Ran a large Chief of Police George Matsell. gang member, helped rob over Republican, and then wrote for With her husband and brother, semination of obscene material and organized gang of counter- $2.7 million from the Manhat- the New York World. In 1861 was developed a line of birth control and information on birth control. feiters who flooded the entire made secretary for the U.S. Mar- products and abortifacients, and Sworn enemy of Madame Rest- tan Institute for Savings in 1878, country with millions of dollars shall and then Detective. After the performed abortions. Committed ell, Victoria Woodhull, Tennessee a heist funded in part by Marm in fake bills in the late 1860s and War, appointed Operative in the suicide soon after being arrested Claflin, Margaret Sanger, Emma Mandelbaum the fence. Emerson early 1870s. Gambled away his U.S. Secret Service Division, New in 1878 by Anthony Comstock. Goldman, Ida Craddock, among was acquitted at trial but finally proceeds, and was sentenced to York District, in charge of bounty Was worth over $500,000 at the many others. Admired by a young sent to prison for 10 years on oth- 10 years in Kings County Peni- fraud cases. time of her death. J. Edgar Hoover later in life. er robbery charges. tentiary. b a b a b a b a sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss b a sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss Charles Williams aka Charles E. Anchisi C.P. Dan Noble detective John Murray aka Daniel Dyson D.M. sssssssssss ssssssssssspetty thief prostitute a b thief a b sssssssssssthief sssssssssss 1836-99. Fought in the Crimean sssssssssss a b a b War for the Italian Army and Lifea dates unknown. (Image bfrom Life dates unknown. A half-breed 1846-78. Began career as a pick- emigrated to the U.S. in 1861. a photograph taken under duress.) Indian and Negro woman with an pocket, and best known for steal- Life dates unknown. In and out of Worked as an agent for the Union A career sneak thief who robbed explosive temper. Incarcerated at ing $100,000 from the Royal prisons her adult life, described by Army gathering intelligence in houses in New York, Boston, and least four times, three times for Insurance Co. in broad daylight. jailers as “notoriously abandoned the South. Appointed Assistant New Jersey. Arrested and impris- theft and once for assault with a Allegedly participated in theft of and profligate.” Was nevertheless Operative in the U.S. Secret Ser- oned numerous times. Pleaded $1 million from industrialist Ru- knife. Attacked a prison guard shrewd, “with fair intellect but a vice in 1868 to break up an Italian insanity and escaped from three with a carving knife, and was fus L. Lord. Broke out of Auburn gang of counterfeiters, and as full asylums before finally being ap- prison and escaped to England total destitution of moral endow- beaten into submission with a Detective broke up criminal gangs prehended in Cambridge in pos- where he was sentenced to 20 ment.” in the West. session of stolen pawn tickets. loaded cane. years for forgery. Died in prison. b a b a b a b a b a sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss Edward Gearing Frank McCoy Fernando Wood George Mason George W. Matsell aka Eddie Goodie aka “Big Frank” police butcher-cart thief mayor burglar aka Oscar Decker sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss burglar, forger sssssssssss a b a b a b sssssssssss a b 1812-81. Elected Mayor of New a b 1811-77. An “inveterate foe of Ca. 1848-unknown. “One of the York City in 1854 and again in Ca. 1839-unknown. Credited Life dates unknown. A confeder- thieves,” Matsell became a po- smartest thieves in America.” 1860, spent his life in politics, with originating the “butcher cart ate of notorious fence “Marm lice magistrate in 1840 and was Conducted a life-long career as a involved in Tammany Hall and business,” robbing people on the Mandelbaum.” Decker also forged named the first New York City thief, and drove the butcher cart serving in the House of Repre- street and escaping in a cart. Said notes on banks, obtaining $13,500 Police Commissioner in 1845. in Cincinnati and Chicago alone. carrying stolen loot. Was allegedly sentatives. A Copperhead, he to have stolen over $2 million in He wrote the first work of Ameri- involved in the 1878 robbery of his career. After several arrests, he With associates, he traveled to supported the South during the can slang, the Vocabulum (Rogue’s the Manhattan Institute for Sav- Civil War in order to keep mak- was finally sent to a Wilmington, Europe and defrauded banks of $100,000s in London, Paris, and Lexicon), owned the National Police ings, of over $2.7 million. Eventu- ing money from a profitable cot- Delaware, jail to serve out a 10- Brussels, where he was arrested Gazette, and spent summers at his ally sentenced to 20 years in State ton trade. year term for burglary. Prison. and incarcerated. farm in Iowa. b a b a b a b a b a sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss Dorcas Doyan Dr. Jacob Rosenzweig John and Willie D. George W. Walling Helen Campbell aka Dr. Ascher police aka Helen Jewett street arabs sssssssssss sssssssssssreformer sssssssssssprostitute sssssssssssabortionist sssssssssss a b a b a b a b a b Life dates unknown. Two brothers 1823-91. He worked his way up in 1813-36. High-class New York Life dates unknown. Abortionist the ranks, serving under George 1839-1918. Dedicated her life to City prostitute who grew up in who at one time ran five offices supporting an idle and abusive fa- Matsell, and gaining respect by causes and effects of poverty on Maine motherless and with an al- in New York City. Accused in the ther and younger sister as beggars. ably handling New York City’s women and children. Pioneer in coholic father. Allegedly murdered “Great Trunk Mystery” of 1871, Illiterate and often sleeping on the by regular customer, clerk Rich- of killing a woman by a botched streets in boxes, they were rescued draft riots in 1863. He became home economics and social re- Chief of New York Police in 1874 ard Robinson. The trial transfixed abortion and attempting to ship by the Society for the Prevention former. Wrote children’s stories, the nation. Despite damning but her body to Chicago. Convicted and for his entire career sought to of Cruelty to Children and sent novels, and nonfiction chronicling circumstantial evidence, Robin- and sentenced to 7 years in Sing to the Juvenile Asylum. Fates un- rid the police force of corruption the plight of urban families. son was acquitted. Facing a public Sing, he served less than a year. from the city’s political influences. backlash, he moved to Texas. known. The schools were closed in 1880. were The schools diplomas. medical fake 3,000 over selling University, Livingstone and Medical College of Pennsylvania, sity of Philadelphia, the Eclectic schools the “Dean” American ofUniver the wrote bogus medical medical eases with quack medicines. Also treatises. medicine, Was treating venereal dis Life dates unknown. Practiced survive and be released. survive in life, gave up comrades only to sustained during an escape later wounded from gunshot wounds Believing himself to be mortally der of banker Benjamin Nathan. vincingly confessed to the NY mur on robbery charges. Uncon to extradited burglar jewelry store Ca. 1846-unknown. Notorious a a diploma mill operator sssssssssss b sssssssssss b John Buchanan John aka Old Jack John Irving John quack burglar doctor b sssssssssss b sssssssssss a a - - - - b a b a b a b a b a sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss sssssssssss John P. McCartney aka Jonathan Harrington Maria Whipple John “Johnny” Hope Pete McCartney aka Joe Green Madame Rand thief Woods fortune teller, pimp ssssssssssspetty thief sssssssssss sssssssssssreformed gambler sssssssssss a b a b ssssssssssscounterfeiter, forger a b a b 1856-1906. Burglar, bank robber, Life dates unknown. A vestmaker a b 1813-87. An accomplished gam- Life dates unknown. Occupied and pickpocket. Worked with his Ca. 1818-90. King of counter- second story of a tenement near by trade, arrived alone in Boston feiters and prince of queer shov- bler at a young age, gave it up father, “Old Jimmy” Hope, associ- the East River, above a cheap gro- at age 20. Took up stealing when ers. Skillfully engraved plates and in 1842 and crusaded against ate of the notorious George Leslie gambling until the end of his life. cery selling liquor to the destitute. unable to find work, and stole Gang. Arrested and convicted for passed counterfeits throughout the West. Also skilled at escaping from Helped organize the New York Claimed to tell girls of their future $1,200 in silks, furs, and other alleged part in the 1878 robbery Association for the Suppression of husbands, but sold them into pros- of the Manhattan Institute for custody.
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