1886 Professional Criminals of America
- List Price: $19.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Lyons Press
- Publish date: 08/01/2000
Description:
Written in "1886, Professional Criminals of America" contains biographical sketches, including photographs, of some four hundred of the nation's leading criminals. Each profile details the crimes committed and the circumstances leading up to arrest and conviction. Also included are short chapters on executions, opium addiction, fugitives from justice, and prison commutation laws, along with chapters on mysterious unsolved murders, adventurers and adventuresses, and a list of every prison and state penitentiary in America at the time of publication.
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