1861 Republican convention, the 45
1876 Centennial Exhibition, the 12, 35, 36, 38, 47, 59, 69, 72, 127, 133, 134, 149-151, 161, 162, 210, 211, 234-239, 247, 259
Adams Express Company, the 225
Albany 81, 84, 102, 120, Allentown, Pennsylvania 78
Associated Press, the 83
Atlantic City 23, 29, 30, 39, 41, 42, 55, 121, 268, 283
Aunt Susie 21
Barnum, P. T. 259
Battle of Germantown 17
Bay Ridge 172, 179, 187, 190, 191, 204, 237
Bazaar of Nations, the 239
Bend, The 89
Berrian’s Island 112
Blair, Gustave 260
Bleecker Street 171
Board of the Police, the 95
Boston 105, 150, 152, 204, 205
Boston Harbor 172
Broome Street 154
Brown, Newton 242
Bryant Park 59
Buchanan, Lieutenant Alexander 25-27, 30
Bullitt, John C. 146 “Button Joe” 65
Callahan, Peter 18, 19, 21, 176-178
Canal Street 89
Carton, Mary Elizabeth 151, 152
Centennial 12, 35, 36, 38, 47, 59, 69, 72, 127, 133, 134, 149, 150, 161, 162, 210, 211, 234-239, 247, 259
Center City 56, 150, 233, 235, 247, 257
Chester, Illinois 175, 181-183
Chestnut Street 26, 30, 33, 83, 175, 176, 189, 225, 260, 263
Chicago 66
Children’s Aid Society 102
Childs, George W. 58
City Council, the 33, 134, 149, 152, 210, 234
Civil War, the 17, 25, 32, 35, 38, 41, 47, 50, 57, 83, 100, 106, 142, 159, 210, 217, 245, 260, 261
Coffin, Elizabeth 67
Coffin, May 67
Commercial Exchange, the 145
Common Council, the 68
Congress 38, 45, 134, 159, 161
Conroy, Patsy “the Barber” 111
copycat crimes 50, 60, 69, 73, 185
Crystal Palace Exhibition 59, 133
Daybreak Boys, the 112
Declaration of Independence, the 35
Delaware Indians 17
Delaware River 28, 39, 47, 247
Democrats 34, 159-161, 210, 211
Denver, Colorado 101
domestic crimes, domestic violence 235
Douglas, Joseph 12, 13, 112-115, 117-119, 130, 137, 150, 153, 154, 156, 164, 169-174, 176-180, 185-197, 199-201, 205, 217, 221, 223, 224, 226, 227, 230, 232, 238, 242, 243, 250-254, 261
Downer, Franklin P. 212
Dusenbury, Detective 178
East Washington Lane 18, 67, 258, 260, 261,
Eastern Penitentiary, the 246, 248, 249
Eldridge, Frank 163
ethnic (tension, riots) 34, 35, 93, 94, 159
Europe 17, 50, 59, 123, 154, 183, 231, 248, 285
Evening Bulletin, The 51, 59, 66, 71, 103, 104, 127, 128, 133, 135, 136, 144, 145, 151, 152, 187, 204, 224, 234, 235, 238
Exhibition, the 12, 37, 59, 93, 133, 149, 150, 152, 234, 236, 239, 259
Fifth Avenue Hotel, the 165, 170, 224
Five Points, the 13, 91, 92, 112, 116, 117, 137, 154, 156, 169, 171
Foulke, C.M. 56
founding fathers, the 35
Fourteenth Precinct, the 24
Franklin Institute, the 150
Franklin, Benjamin 33, 79, 125-127, 150, 212
Germantown 17, 18, 23-28, 33, 39-41, 45, 53, 78, 84, 123, 139, 163, 170, 203, 204, 252, 257-259, 261, 263, 264, 288
Germantown Avenue 17, 18, 24-28, 39, 40, 123, 257, 258
Girard Avenue Bridge, the 36
Grant, Ulysses S. 34, 58, 159, 161, 210
Great Depression, the 257
Green Point 111
Green, Robert M. 150
gypsy, gypsies 30, 42, 50, 63, 81, 83, 232
Haines Street 25
Harlen, Joe 102
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 26, 145, 160
Hartranft, Governor John Frederick 259
Hedden, Captain Henry 95, 97, 109, 110, 117-119, 186, 190
Heins, Captain William 13, 26, 27, 30, 42, 97, 123, 128, 137, 138, 149, 151, 154-156, 164, 175, 176, 178, 204, 211, 212, 222, 224-227, 238, 241-243, 253, 258
Henderson, Georgie 116
Henderson, Martha 116
Henderson, Willie 116
Hoboken, New Jersey 175
Holmes, Samuel T. 106
Honey Run 109
Horticultural Hall 239
Howe, General 17
Hudson River, the 81, 84, 155, 276
Illustrated New Age 73
immigrant community, the 17, 34, 94, 231, 257
Independence Hall 26, 33, 38, 58, 160, 213
Jay Cooke Bank, the 23
Johnson house, the 17
Jones, Jimmy 39
Jones, Police Chief Kennard 47, 127
Jones, Police Chief Kenneth 30
Joyce, Officer Etwein 27
Kelso, Superintendent James 186
Kenney, Father 136
Kensington 22, 25, 27, 28, 56, 151, 178, 203, 252
Kidder, Mary 24
Lachmueller, Henry Sr. 183
Lambert, James V. 145
Leslie, George 77
Lewis, Frank 26, 28, 30, 31, 42, 43, 46, 84, 165,
Lewis, Henry 11, 26, 30, 46, 83, 141, 146, 163, 164, 165, 193, 194, 204, 205, 217, 224, 230, 233
Lewis, Joseph 11, 26, 30, 46, 83, 141, 163, 164, 165, 204, 205, 217, 224, 225, 227, 230, 233
libel 11, 57, 144, 145, 147, 203
Long Island 13, 134, 155, 172, 191, 237
Long Island Sound 112, 171, 176, 189
Machinery Hall 240
Madden, Saul 111
Main Street 18, 21, 22, 39, 41, 67
Marriott Lane 138
McCarthy, Cowlegged Sam 111
McKean, William V. 12, 58, 103, 104, 176, 224, 225, 237
Mennonites 17
Metropolitan Hotel, the 176
Middletown, Pennsylvania 26, 176
Monmouth County Jail 113
Monroe Street 55, 137, 170, 250, 252
Morgan, Kate 115, 116, 251-253
Morrow (Morris), Madame 114, 154, 181, 197, 211, 254
Mosher, Clinton “Gil” 13, 95-97, 111, 113-115, 118, 130, 155, 156, 170, 177, 178, 180, 186, 190, 199-201, 226, 253, 258
Mosher, Ellsworth 258
Mosher, Martha 115, 116, 153, 154, 170, 177, 192, 196-201, 219, 233, 237, 252-255, 258
Mosher, William 12, 13, 95-97, 109-119, 123, 126, 130, 137, 150, 153-156, 164, 169-174, 176-180, 185-193, 195-201, 203, 205, 215, 217, 219, 221, 223, 224, 226, 227, 230, 232, 233, 237, 238, 241-243, 250-255, 248, 260, 261
Moyamensing Prison 65, 73, 227, 237, 241, 249
Mulberry Street 89, 117, 136, 165, 213, 225
Munn 197
Neville, John 175
New Britain, Connecticut New England 150, 152, 162, 239, 248
New Jersey 42, 81, 84, 112, 113, 169, 175, 212, 221, 222, 231, 239, 260, 276
New York Advertiser, The 149, 150
New York Herald, The 14, 58, 60, 77, 79, 86, 115, 116, 120, 129, 130, 138, 139, 143, 147, 157, 158, 161, 162, 165, 179, 186, 187, 195, 196, 199, 203, 219, 233,237, 252, 280, 281, 283, 285, 286, 288, 290, 291, 293
New York Times, The 14, 77, 136
New York Tribune, The 58, 231, 258
Newark, New Jersey 212, 219, 221, 222
Newburg, New York 147, 156, 288
Newport, Rhode Island 102, 136
Newspaper Row 89
Odell, Illinois 101
“orphan trains” 102
Painter, William 67
Panic of 1873, the 23, 34, 46, 54, 94
Patterson, John 102
Pennsylvania Detective Bureau, the 78, 99, 124
Pennsylvania Railroad, the 239
Petty, R. W. 163
Philadelphia Inquirer, The 14, 54, 57, 58, 63, 65, 68, 71-73, 83, 100, 124, 125, 126, 128, 145, 176, 187, 189, 199, 203, 209, 217, 236-238, 240, 242, 250
Philadelphia Public Ledger, The 12, 14, 28-31, 33, 36, 43, 49, 51-54, 57-59, 70, 79, 81, 85, 103, 104, 126, 176, 224, 235, 236, 238, 244, 266, 270, 272, 276, 278
Pinkerton Detective Agency, the 79, 124-127, 129, 163, 169, 175, 181, 211, 223
postal service, the 81, 106, 268
Poughkeepsie, New York 155
Purcell, Arthur 79, 129, 130, 223, 283, 284
Reading Railroad, the 81
Reconstruction 34, 38, 93, 161
Republican machine, the 46, 159-161
Republicans 12, 13, 34, 45, 46, 58, 103, 127, 159-161, 210
reserve corps, the 51
Revolutionary War, the 26, 247
Richmond, Virginia 78
Riddle, Edward 59
Rittenhouse square district 56
river-pirate gangs, river piracy 12, 17, 92, 96, 111, 112 172, 191
Roosevelt, Theodore 191
“Ross Case A Humbug” 145
Ross, Charley 11, 13, 21-23, 25-30, 33, 35, 36, 40, 42, 49, 50, 54-56, 58, 60, 63, 66, 68, 69, 73, 77-79, 81, 83, 84, 86, 92, 95-97, 99-102, 104-106, 110, 115, 116, 118, 120, 121, 125, 126, 129-131, 134, 136-139, 141, 146, 147, 151, 154, 157, 161, 162, 170, 173, 175-177, 180-183, 186-190, 194, 197, 199, 204, 205, 209, 211, 212, 215, 217-219, 221, 223, 226, 229-233, 235, 236, 241, 244, 245, 250-254, 258-261, 264, 265, 268, 270, 272, 273, 275, 278, 280, 282-284, 287
Ross, Sarah Lewis 26, 29, 30, 41, 42, 45, 48, 60, 63, 126, 141-143, 146, 147, 154, 163, 164, 176, 182, 185, 203, 213, 218, 241, 259
Ross, Walter 11, 21-30, 39, 41, 42, 48, 55, 64, 66, 69, 81, 84, 105, 109, 110, 113, 120, 121, 123, 125, 130, 143, 151, 162, 170, 176-178, 186, 196, 203, 209, 222, 242, 251, 258, 260, 261, 268, 270, 276, 282, 283, 291, 293-295
Savannah, Georgia 231
Schuylkill River 17, 35, 233, 247
Sebastian, Annie 102
Secret Six, the 210
Sheppard, District Attorney Furman 243
Silleck, Detective 113, 155, 174, 180, 185, 186, 190-193
sixteenth ward, the 30
Slaughter House Point 111
Slobbery Jim, 111
Smith and McNeal’s 153
South Philadelphia 39, 55, 56, 59, 65, 68, 69, 89, 99, 102, 115, 120, 170, 171, 236, 241, 249, 252, 282
South Seventh Street 68
spiritualists, spiritualism, psychics 63, 142, 143, 204, 217, 239, 270
St. Louis, Missouri 182, 183, 205, 215, 217, 291
St. Paul, Minnesota 101
State House, the 225, 226, 245
Steel, Henry 109
Stokley, William S. 12, 13, 30, 33-38, 46, 66, 68, 72, 101, 124, 127, 133, 134, 154, 159, 161, 162, 175, 188, 201, 204, 209-213, 218, 234, 255, 258, 261, 274
strikes 94
Stromberg, Charles 90-92, 115, 117, 137, 243
Swartz, Frederick S. 81
Swedenborg 142
Taggart, Joshua 64-66, 68, 69, 73, 74, 77, 99, 124
Taggart, Lukens and Carlin 64
Tenth Street 227
thief catchers 50, 51, 64, 65, 127, 191
Thirteenth Precinct, the 95, 97, 117, 119
Titus, Detective 222
Tombs, the 112
Tramp Acts 63
Trenton, New Jersey 131, 212, 218, 238, 251, 252, 284
Troxell, Amanda 236
Troxell, Catherine 236
Troxell, Mary 236
Underground Railroad, the 17
unemployment 34, 153, 159, 160
Uniform Elections Act of 1874, the 45
urination stoppage 138, 141, 286
Van Brunt, J. Holmes 172, 173, 178, 195, 196, 199, 200, 252
Walling, George W. 13, 93-98, 109-113, 117-119, 123, 130, 136, 137, 149, 151, 153-156, 164, 165, 169, 170, 174-178, 185-188, 190-194, 196, 198-201, 203, 204, 211-213, 221-227, 229, 230, 232, 237, 241, 243, 244, 253-255, 259
Walnut Street 35
Walnut Street Jail 247
Washington Lane 18, 19, 23, 26, 30, 41, 64, 67, 109, 123, 125, 139, 163, 257, 258, 260, 261, 282
Washington, D.C. 135, 204, 205
West Philadelphia 30, 31, 67, 81, 84, 242, 276
Westchester 155
Westervelt, William 13, 90-92, 110, 113-119, 130, 136-138, 150, 153, 154, 156, 164, 165, 170, 171, 177, 200, 201, 219, 223-227, 229, 230, 232, 237, 238, 241-246, 248-250, 252-255, 258,
Westport, Connecticut 189
Whigs 34
Wingohocking Creek 40
Wissahickon River 40
Wood, Detective Charles 155, 156, 176, 177, 226, 238, 255
Wooster, Christopher (“Frank Wistar,” “Christian Worcester”) 65, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 77