A few nice slim fast images I found:
Image from page 32 of “Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police” (1897)
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Title: Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Eldridge, Benjamin P., b. 1838 Watts, William B., b. 1852
Subjects: Criminals Criminology Police
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Pemberton Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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SHEENY SI. WILLIAM CARROLL. THE SniNDLJNO liEaUAR. y washed and unkempt from their Utter, taking perhaps a fewcheap pencils or shoestrings to distinguish themselves fromcommon tramps. So Kid Johnson spent his first night with his new matesand went out like the rest to cheat the city with his woe-begoneface and plaster cast. Day after day he returned with jinglingpockets to slide down the pit of vice lower and lower. Thewayward boy was changing fast to a debased and hardenedrogue like his comrades. As he grew more expert and his first city pasture ground waswell grazed over he was sent out to neighboring towns to beg.He brought back several dollars a day but the avarice ofFrisco Slim grew faster than his pupil could appease it, and,as his control over his young accomplice increased, he treatedthe lad little better than a slave. The boy was driven to begwithout resting by the threat of a beating if his days collectiondid not exceed the stint fixed by his bully and such was thecraft of t
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