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Singerman ID#supp2348

Recollections of a New York Chief of Police. Illustrated from Original Drawings and Photographs.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp2348

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.

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.