Case Files of the NYPD by Whalen, Bernard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Introduction CRIMINALS AND CRIMES IN OLD NEW YORK 1802–1844 THE CITY BANK ROBBERY 1831 THE MURDER OF HELEN JEWETT 1836 A PROPER POLICE FORCE 1845–1857 THE BUTTON CASE 1848 MUNICIPALS VS. METROPOLITANS 1857 THE DRAFT RIOTS 1863 POST–CIVIL WAR POLICING 1865–1890 THE MANHATTAN BANK ROBBERY 1878 THOMAS BYRNES CHANGES THE FORCE 1880 COMMON CRIMES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1800S THE END OF AN ERA: POLICE REFORMER THEODORE ROOSEVELT TAKES CHARGE 1895 THE MURDER OF DOLLY REYNOLDS 1898 THE BARREL MURDER 1903

Sidebar: Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino

“THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY” 1906

Sidebar: The Homicide Squad, 1908

THE CHINATOWN TRUNK MURDER 1909

THE GREAT TAXICAB ROBBERY 1912 LIEUTENANT CHARLES BECKER GETS THE CHAIR 1912 THE STRANGE DEATH OF PATROLMAN JOHN CAHILL 1913 THE DEADLY SINS OF FATHER HANS SCHMIDT 1913 THE ATTEMPTED BOMBING OF ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL 1914 THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF RUTH CRUGER 1917 “KID DROPPER” AND “LITTLE AUGIE,” THE DEADLY RIVALS 1920–1923 THE WALL STREET BOMBING 1920 DOUBLE INDEMNITY 1927 ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN GAMBLED WITH HIS LIFE 1928 JUDGE CRATER GOES MISSING 1930 THE MURDER OF VIVACIOUS VIVIAN GORDON 1931 THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING 1932 VENDING MACHINES AND SLUGS 1930S HARLEM ERUPTS 1935 HARLEM ERUPTS 1935 THE BATHTUB MURDER 1936 THE BUNGLED APPREHENSION OF HARRY BRUNETTE 1936 THE MAD SCULPTOR 1937 NAZIS IN NEW YORK 1935–1941 THE WORLD’S FAIR BOMB 1940

Sidebar: Patrolman Emil Vyskocil 1908-1974

“THE MAD BOMBER” 1940 ABE RELES: A CANARY WHO COULD SING BUT COULD NOT FLY 1940 MADELINE WEBB, THE FEMME FATALE 1942 THE ATOMIC SECRETS OF JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG 1949 HARRY GROSS, THE KING OF THE CONS 1950 WHERE THE MONEY IS 1950 THE HIT ON ALBERT ANASTASIA 1957 THE FORGOTTEN STABBING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 1958 “THE CAPE MAN” AND “THE UMBRELLA MAN” 1959

Sidebar: The Drama of Gangs

THE REAL-LIFE FRENCH CONNECTION 1961

Sidebar: Stealing the Stolen Drugs

“JERRY THE JEW” 1962 THE CAREER GIRL MURDERS 1963 KITTY GENOVESE: WHO SAW WHAT? 1964

THE CENSORSHIP OF LENNY BRUCE 1964 MURF THE SURF AND THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY JEWEL HEIST 1964 MALCOLM X: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY 1965 THE PERSECUTION OF ALICE CRIMMINS 1965 THE BLACK PANTHERS IN NEW YORK CITY 1969–1981 THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND 1970 THE MURDER AT THE HARLEM MOSQUE 1972 DOG DAY AFTERNOON 1972

Sidebar: Wojtowicz’s Brush with Fame

NEW YORK CITY’S FORGOTTEN FIRST JIHAD 1973 THE BOMBING OF FRAUNCES TAVERN 1975 SON OF SAM 1976 HOW WILLIE BOSKET CHANGED THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM 1978 BUDDY JACOBSON: A FOOL FOR LOVE 1978 SID AND NANCY: A LOVE STORY OF SORTS 1978 THE DEATH OF GIG YOUNG: MURDER OR SUICIDE? 1978 THE LUFTHANSA HEIST 1978 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ETAN PATZ 1979 “PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” 1980 “I JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON” 1980 THE PALM SUNDAY MASSACRE 1984

Sidebar: What Became of the Sole Survivor?

THE “SUBWAY VIGILANTE” 1984 THE ASSASSINATION OF PAUL CASTELLANO AND THE RISE AND FALL OF JOHN GOTTI 1985 “THE PREPPY MURDER CASE” 1986

Sidebar: Sleeping Off a Murder Charge

THE INCREDIBLE ESCAPE OF LARRY DAVIS 1986 THE ASSASSINATION OF POLICE OFFICER EDWARD BYRNE 1988 THE HAPPY LAND SOCIAL CLUB FIRE 1990 THE SENSELESS MURDER OF A UTAH TOURIST 1990 THE KILLING OF RABBI MEIR KAHANE 1990 FIRST ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER 1993

Sidebar: The Blind Sheik Sidebar: Jack Maple and CompStat

A HEIST AT TIFFANY’S 1994 “THE DEADLY GRIFTERS” 1998 ATTACK ON THE TWIN TOWERS 2001 THE SLAYING OF COUNCILMAN JAMES DAVIS 2003 THE MURDER OF IMETTE ST. GUILLEN 2006 “SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING” 2010 THE MURDER OF A FASHION DESIGNER 2010 Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Photo Credits Newsletters