A pickpocket's tale; the underworld of nineteenth-century New York.9780393061901 A pickpocket's tale; the underworld Underworld See also Hell. Unfaithfulness (See FAITHLESSNESS.) Ungratefulness (See INGRATITUDE.) Unkindness (See CRUELTY, INHOSPITALITY.) Aidoneus epithet of Hades. [Gk. Myth. of nineteenth-century New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Gilfoyle, Timothy J. W.W. Norton 2006 460 pages $27.95 Hardcover HV6653 Gilfoyle (history, Loyola U., Chicago) profiles one of 19th-century New York's most significant criminals: George Appo, a pickpocket PICKPOCKET. A thief; one who in a crowd or. in other places, steals from the pockets or person of another without putting him in fear. This is generally punished as simple larceny. , confidence man, and opium addict Noun 1. opium addict - someone addicted to opium opium taker drug addict, junkie, junky - a narcotics addict who lived off his criminal activities during his teenage years and much of his adult life, and during the 1870s and 1880s would take as much in a single night as a skilled manual laborer earned in a year. He puts his career in the context of the exploding crime and response to it in the city between the 1840s and the 1890s. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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