murder; of blacks; Burdell case; of civilians by police; Clarke case; Colt case; of 1850s; Jewett case; penny press on; rates; Rogers case
music
music halls
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nassau Street
Nation, The
National Anti-Slavery Standard
National Guard
National Police Gazette
Native Americans
Navy, U.S.
Nevins, Allan
Newark, New Jersey
New Jersey
“New Light” evangelical churches
New Orleans
newsboys
New Year’s Day
New York American
New York Aurora
New York City; 1830s–50s crime wave; 1845 creation of NYPD; of 1850s; 1857 creation of Metropolitan Police; of 1870s; growth of. See also courts; crime; gangs; government; police, New York; politics; press; reform; riots; specific streets and neighborhoods; waterfront
New-York Commercial Advertiser
New York Courier and Enquirer
New York Daily Times
New-York Gazette
New York Harbor; harbor pirates
New York Herald; circulation; crusade for professional police force; on Jewett murder; on Rogers murder
New York Journal of Commerce
New York Magdalen Society
New-York Mirror
New York Moral Reform Society
New York Police Department (NYPD); 1845 creation of; 1857 police riots. See also Municipal Police; police, New York
New York Post
“New York’s Finest” (term)
New York State Commission on Cities
New York state legislature; control over New York police; early 1840s police investigations; police reform and; Tammany Hall and; Wood mayorality and
New York Sun; on Jewett murder
New York Temperance Society
New York Times, The
New York Tribune
New York University
New York World
nightsticks
Niles, Hezekiah
Niles’ Weekly Register
Norman, Amelia
Norton, Charles Eliot
Old Brewery
omnibuses; accidents
opera
organ grinders
oyster bars
P. T. Barnum Museum
paddy wagons
panhandlers
Panic of 1837
Panic of 1857
parades; “police”
Paris
Parkhurst, Reverend Charles
Park Row
parks
Park Theater, 1831 riot at
parochial schools
Parton, James
paternity suits
patronage, political
pawnshops
Payne, Daniel
peddlers
penny press; crime coverage; crusade for professional police force; interviews; on Jewett murder; shipboard news
perp walk
Philadelphia; crime; race riots
Philadelphia Journal
Phillips, Delia
Phoenix, Thomas
photographs; of criminals; of naked women
piano
pickpockets
Pigret, John
Pintard, John
Pittsburgh
Plug Uglies
Poe, Edgar Allan; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”; on Rogers murder
police, New York; academies; administrative oversight of; appointment term limits; arrest rates; assaults on; Astor Place riot and; blue solidarity; brutality; civilians murdered by; constable system replaced by Municipal Police; corruption; districts; drunkenness and; early constable force; 1845 creation of NYPD; of 1850s; 1857 creation of Metropolitan Police; 1857 riots; of 1870s; fees and rewards; Five Points; funerals; gambling and; guns; Hays leadership; hiring; ineptitude of; injuries and deaths of; Irish; Jewett murder and; magistrates; manual; Matsell leadership; methods of force used by; Municipal vs. Metropolitan; nightsticks; physical requirements; politics and; press crusade for professional police force; prostitutes and; reform; Rogers murder and; salaries; single patrolmen; size of force; state legislature control of; Tammany Hall ties; toughness of; training; uniforms; Wood mayorality and
Police Commission
politics; corruption; of 1870s; Election Day riots; mayoral; Native Americans; patronage; police reform and; press and; riots; Tammany Hall; Wood mayoralty and. See also specific political parties
Polk, James K.
pollution
population; density; gender and; growth
post office
poverty
press; antislavery; circulation; on Colt trial; crusade for professional police force; on 1857 police riots; flash papers; on Jewett murder; penny; on police reform; politics and; prostitution; rivalries; on Rogers murder; six-cent. See also specific publications
printing presses
Prison Association of New York
prisons; conditions; corruption; escape; immigrants in; prostitutes and; reform; release of criminals; sentences; Tombs; women in
Progressive Union Club
prostitution; abusive clients; Bowery; Burdell murder and; child; courts and prisons; of 1850s; Five Point; flash papers; Jewett murder; life of; male; marriage and; new police force and; police corruption and; reform and; waterfront
Protestants
public education; corruption
public sex
publishing
race; crimes; riots
Raeder, Ole
ragpickers
railroads
Ramsey, Albert
rape
rattle watch
Raymond, Henry
real estate market
recession; of 1833
Reed, Gustavus
reform; Lydia Child and; court; 1845 creation of NYPD; 1857 creation of Metropolitan Police; fee; immigration; police; politics and; press on; prison; prostitution and; societies; state legislature and; Tammany Hall and; temperance; Wood mayoralty and
Reilly, Jane Louisa
religion; anti-Catholic sentiments; riots
Republican Party
restaurants
Restell, Marie
Reynolds, Ben
Richmond, Virginia
Riley, Anne
riots; antislavery; Astor Place; constables and; draft; of 1820s; 1857 police; Election Day; flour; labor; political; religious; theater
riverboats
robbery and burglary; burglary rings; of 1850s; harbor pirates
Roberts, John “Little Jack”
Robinson, Richard; trial of
Rogers, Barnard and Catherine
Rogers, Mary, murder of
Rogers, Mary Ann
Rogues Gallery
Rome
ropers
roundmen
Russia
Rynders, Isaiah
safe blowers
St. Louis
St. Nicholas Hotel
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
saloon girls
saloons. See bars and saloons
Sandford, Charles
San Francisco
sanitation
Saratoga race track
Schneider, John
Shultz, Harriet
Seaman, Henry
secession
Second Ward
Selden, Dudley
sentences, criminal
sentinel boxes
Seventh Ward
sewage
Seward, William
sex crimes. See prostitution; rape
sex-game investigations
Shannery, Barnard
Sharp, Ann
Shepard, Lorenzo
shipboard news
shipbuilding
shipping; harbor pirates
shooting galleries
shoplifting
&
nbsp; Short Boys
Sixth Ward
Sixth Ward Hotel
slavery; abolitionist riots; freedom; revolts; runaways; trade
sleighs
slums
smallpox
Smith, A. M. C.
Snelling, William
Snodgrass, George
Snow, Ephraim
Solomon, Joseph
South
South Street
Spain
sporting men
sports
squad rooms
squatters
star police
Staten Island
Statesman
steal-to-order theft rings
steers
Steinberg, Isaac
stevedores
Stewart, A. T.
Stewart, Alex
stock market
stolen-property recovery-fee systems
stonecutters riot
stores; of 1850s; employee theft; growth of; looting; shoplifting
street gangs. See gangs
street urchins
Strong, Eleanor
Strong, George Templeton; as diarist of New York scene
Strong Arm Squad
Stuart-Wortley, Lady Emmeline
Subterranean
suicides
Sullivan, Yankee
summer
Sunday liquor laws
“suspicion” charges
Sutton, William
Tammany Hall; corruption; decline of; factional warfare; police and; Wood mayoralty and
Tappan, Arthur
Tappan, Lewis
Tappan, Thomas
taxes
Taylor, Joseph
Taylor, Robert
temperance societies
tenements; life in
Tenth Ward
Thackeray, William
theaters; Astor Place riot; riots
theft; Five Points; harbor pirates; rings; stolen-property recovery-fee systems. See also robbery and burglary
“third degree”
Thomas, George
Thomas Street
Thompson, Ed
Tilden, Samuel
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Tombs prison
tourism
Townsend, Rosina
Trainor, Bernard
Transcript
transportation
trials; Burdell; Colt; Jewett; juries
Trollope, Frances
Turner, Nat
Tweed, William “Boss”
Twell, William
undercover patrol
Underground Railroad
unemployment
Union Club
Utica, New York
vagrancy
Van Buren, Martin
Van Nostrand, Martin
Van Zandt, William
vaudeville
vendors, street
Vesey Street
vigilantes
Vineyard mutiny
Vose, John
Walling, George; Astor Place riot and; 1857 police riots and; tough-cop policy of; Wood mayoralty and
Wall Street; crime
Walsh, Mike
War of 1812
Washington, D.C.
Washington, George
Watch Committee
watches
watch houses
watchmen. See constables
water; city system; contaminated
waterfront; dock workers; harbor pirates; prostitution
Waterman, Ben
Water Street
Watt, John
wealthy; crimes committed by; parties
Webb, James Watson
Webster, Daniel
Weed, Thurlow
Weekly Rake
West; crime
Westervelt, Jacob
West Indies
Whig Party
Whip and Satirist of New-York and Brooklyn
Whiskey Rebellion
White, Ezra
Whitman, Walt; Franklin Evans; Leaves of Grass; on police reform; press and
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wikoff, Henry
Wilkes, George
Willemse, Cornelius
Williams, Barney
Williamson, Maria
Willis, Nathaniel P.
Wilmer, Lambert
Wilson, William
winter
Wisner, George
women; abortions; Bowery G’hal; childbirth; criminals; dance hall girls; domestic violence; drunkenness; employment; Five Points; hot corn girls; insulting; Jewett murder; marriage; oppression of; in prison; prostitution; rape; reformers; Rogers murder; saloon girls; wealthy
Wood, Ben
Wood, Fernando; corruption; domination of police department; 1857 police riots and; leadership style; presidential ambitions; reform efforts
working class
Worth Street
yellow fever
ALSO BY BRUCE CHADWICK
James and Dolley Madison
Lincoln for President
Triumvirate
1858
About the Author
BRUCE CHADWICK is the author of twenty-nine books. A noted historian, Chadwick teaches at Rutgers University and New Jersey City University. He covered crime for many years as a reporter for the New York Daily News. He holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers, and he lectures on the history of crime and forensics all over the world. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Epigraph
Chapter One. Riot!
Chapter Two. The Gruesome Murder of Helen Jewett
Chapter Three. Extra! Extra! The Penny Press Chases Crime
Chapter Four. The Magnificent City and the Malignant Crime Wave
Chapter Five. Crime Everywhere
Chapter Six. Lydia Child, Crime, and Chaos
Chapter Seven. Faith in the Constables Frays as the City Implodes
Chapter Eight. Amateur Police Walk the Beat of a Raucous City
Chapter Nine. Prostitution, Gambling, and Drinking: The Backbone of the Crime Surge and Downfall of the Police
Chapter Ten. Five Points and the Boundaries of Hell
Chapter Eleven. The Brutal Murder of the Beautiful Cigar Girl
Chapter Twelve. Out with the Old, In with the New
Chapter Thirteen. Police Brutality Raises Its Ugly Head
Chapter Fourteen. Blood in the Streets
Chapter Fifteen. The Fabulous Fernando Wood
Chapter Sixteen. Blue Blood: The 1857 Police Riots
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Bruce Chadwick
About the Author
Copyright
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