Vulgar words in Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations - The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, - and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. (Page 1)
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He would be callow, indeed, who would predicate that a professional burglar would hesitate to commit highway robbery because his weapon was a jimmy, or that a panel thief would turn up his nose at picking an inviting pocket.
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I do not care a damn for the old man.
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Most of this class of unfortunates have a "lover"--a gambler or pimp, who occupies their room and assumes the role of husband and protector for the nonce, with the privilege of spending the girl's blood money in drink or dissipation, and unmercifully beating her when he feels inclined that way.
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Grouped around him are the rooms and haunts of hundreds of prostitutes, with their pimps, thieves and pick-pockets who thrive in such atmosphere.