The New York Tombs Inside and Out! / Scenes and Reminiscences Coming Down to the Present. A Story Stranger Than Fiction, with an Historic Account of America's Most Famous Prison.

Chapter 4: ILLUSTRATIONS.

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A former prison chaplain offers a firsthand account of life inside a major city detention complex, combining historical background, vivid recollections, and portraits of inmates and staff. Chapters trace the site’s development, document daily conditions and alleged corruption, present individual criminal biographies and confessions, and discuss broader causes and types of crime and rehabilitation. The narrative critiques political influence and penitentiary practices while urging social and moral remedies, mixing anecdote, institutional history, and reflections on criminal psychology and reform.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Author, Rev. John J. Munro
Children’s Court
General Sessions Judges
Criminal Branch of Supreme Court
Ex-Police Commissioner Theodore A. Bingham
Police Commissioner Baker at His Desk
New Tombs Prison
Corridor of Women’s Prison
Old Tombs Entrance on Leonard Street
Davis, Who Pardoned Himself Out of Prison
Sing Sing Prison Entrance
Sing Sing Chapel
The Death Chamber at Sing Sing
New Police Headquarters
Sunday Morning Service in the Old Tombs
Old Police Headquarters
Justice Blanchard of Supreme Court
Justice Goff of the Supreme Court
The Bridge of Sighs
Hon C. V. Collins, Superintendent of Prisons
Hon. John F. McIntyre, Criminal Lawyer
Scene in the Tenderloin Station House
Mrs. John A. Foster, the Tombs Angel
Putting a Crook Through the “Third Degree” at Police Headquarters
Roll Call in a Station House at Midnight
Men’s Prison
Women’s Prison