| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| Introduction | 5 |
| I. | Principal Prisons | 13 |
| II. | Friedrich von der Trenck at Magdeburg | 41 |
| III. | Notorious Poisoners | 81 |
| IV. | Three Celebrated Cases | 106 |
| V. | Clever Impostors and Swindlers | 137 |
| VI. | Typical Murderers | 173 |
| VII. | The Story of a Vagrant | 201 |
| VIII. | Some Remarkable Prisoners | 224 |
| IX. | Silvio Pellico at Spielberg | 249 |
| X. | Brigandage and Crime in Austria-Hungary | 273 |
