Recollections of a New York Chief of Police. Illustrated from Original Drawings and Photographs.
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Year: 1887
Entry: Walling, George Washington. Recollections of a New York Chief of Police. Illustrated from Original Drawings and Photographs. New York: Caxton Book Concern, 1887. 608 p.
Author/Editor: Walling, George Washington
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Recollections of a New York Chief of Police. Illustrated from Original Drawings and Photographs.
Printer/Publisher: Caxton Book Concern
Language: English
Notes: Chap. 9 is devoted to the unsolved murder of Benjamin Nathan (1870). See chap. 20 for "Marm" Mandelbaum, a notorious fence for stolen goods, and her gang, including Michael Kurtz alias "Sheeney Mike." Chap. 31 covers the "Great Trunk Mystery" for which Dr. Jacob Rosenzweig was convicted for the death of Alice Augusta Bowlsby during an abortion. A perfect copy has a frontispiece of the author.