CHAPTER I.
Brooklyn Public Schools in the Sixties--Old. No. 13--Parents Suited to the Golden Age--A Curious Preparation for the Battle of Life--Knew that Brutus Slew Caesar--George the Third Was a Bad Fellow Who Got a Tea Kettle Thrown at His Head In Boston Harbor--My Model Home Library--An Innocent Leaves Home. 19
CHAPTER II.
In a Broker's Office--A Nice Old Gentleman--Situation in Wall Street--An Up-to-Date Young Man--Visions of Wealth--Speculations--Wall Street in the Sixties--The Hon. John Morrissey, ex-Pugilist--His Famous Gambling House--I Try a Game of Faro--Midnight Banquets--I Have Entered the Primrose Way. 24
CHAPTER III.
Pleasure Before Business--Result of That Method--On Financial Rocks--James, Otherwise "Jimmy," Irving--He Was a Model Chief of Detectives--Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry Street, in the Early Seventies--He Takes Me for a Drive out Harlem Lane--A Trio of Detectives--They Make a Startling Proposition--A $10,000 Temptation--Mental Conflicts--I Dare Not Be Poor--C'est le Premier Pas Qui Coute. 28
CHAPTER IV.
History of the Famous Lord Bond Steal--"On the Office"--Three Sneaks Stumble on a Fortune--A $1,250,000 Tin Box--Dazed Crooks--What to Do with Their White Elephant--Excitement at Police Headquarters--Bullard et al.--A Violin Virtuoso--Superintendent of Police Kelso Presents a $500 Silver Punch Bowl to the Daughter of Boss Tweed--Paid for with Stolen Cash. 36