Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life; by an Ex-Convict by Samuel A. Bailey
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Overview: Written during the author’s 5-year sentence in Clinton Prison, New York, and self-published in the hopes that “If I can sell enough of my books to earn a living, the temptation that sometimes drives ex-convicts back to crime will, in my case at least, be removed, and I will again have a new start in life” (from the Introduction) Describes Bailey’s experiences in a gang of forgers and his multiple stays in prison. Also valuable for the writing’s generous use of underworld and criminal slang: “I told him I had the boodle in my pocket, and I turned it over to him.I was very much afraid that Billy was going to ‘do me dirt’ by giving me the slip after I had got the boodle; and I was also afraid that ‘Yaller’ would punch me for not turning the dust over to him.However, I kept my ‘lamps’ pretty well peeled on both of them.”
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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