Seventeen Years in the Underworld

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction	5
I	Early Life	11
II	Beginning a Career	16
III	Persisting in Misdeeds	21
IV	Effects of Gambling	27
V	The Reform School	30
VI	Escape and Recapture	36
VII	Discipline	41
VIII	Life in Prison	47
IX	Prison Experiences	49
X	Criminal Classes	57
XI	Some Types of Crooks	61
XII	Morals in the Underworld	66
XIII	Systematic Lawlessness	69
XIV	Betrayal and Arrest	74
XV	Peculiarities of “Yeggs”	79
XVI	Concerning Prison Management	83
XVII	Mistakes of a Chaplain	86
XVIII	Contract Labor	89
XIX	Pardoned	99
XX	Difficulties of the Ex-Prisoner	104
XXI	Reformation	109
XXII	Comparisons	112
XXIII	A Plea for Discharged Prisoners	117

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