Known to the police
By: by Thomas Holmes.
Publisher: E. Arnold
Published: 1908
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Crime -- England -- London; Poor -- England -- London
Table of contents: title: Preface.- Memories and contrasts.- Some burglars I have met.- The black list and inebriates.- Police-court marriages.- Extraordinary sentences.- Discharged prisoners.- The last dread penalty.- Housing the poor.- The hooliganism of the poor.- The heroism of the slums.- A pennyworth of coal. - Old boots and shoes.- Jonathan Pinchbeck, the slum Autolycus.- People who have "come down."