Excerpt from Criminals of America, or Tales of the Lives of Thieves: Enabling Every One to Be His Own Detective; With Portraits, Making a Complete Rogue's GalleryWhat they look like, and how they work - The solo, duet, trio, and quartet distresing case - How a mother lost her only picture of a dead soldier-son - A robbery that cost a life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.