A Pickpocket's Tale
New york (n.y.), social conditions
Criminals, biography
Juvenile delinquents
Crime, united states
Crime
Social conditions
Biography
History
A Pickpocket's Tale is a fascinating true-crime story. Gilfoyle uses George Appo's unpublished memoirs to re-create the world of the nineteenth-century criminal in astonishing detail. George Appo was half Irish, half Chinese who became a pickpocket at the tender age of twelve. he was first arrested …
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