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Chicago May: Her Story

Name: Chicago May: Her Story
Author: May Churchill Sharpe

May Churchill Sharpe

Read by Jim Locke · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Chapter 1--Introduction (12:27)
Chapter 2--My Girlhood (10:10)
Chapter 3--The Girl Turns Woman (10:00)
Chapter 4--Dal Churchill (10:45)
Chapter 5--The Chicago School of Crime (21:13)
Chapter 6--The New York College of Crime (12:50)
Chapter 7--London University (10:30)
Chapter 8--Exploits in Manhattan (35:34)
Chapter 9--"Jim" Sharpe (11:57)
Chapter 10--Typical Blackmail (10:26)
Chapter 11--My Suicides (9:37)
Chapter 12--With the Limeys (45:19)
Chapter 13--The Thief's Funeral (9:21)
Chapter 14--Lawyers (14:05)
Chapter 15--The Paris Robbery (12:06)
Chapter 16--My French Prisons (12:04)
Chapter 17--Devil's Island (11:44)
Chapter 18--Dope (12:50)
Chapter 19--South American Trip (16:10)
Chapter 20--The Low-down on Rio (13:10)
Chapter 21--Ocean Trips (11:58)
Chapter 22--The Guerin Shooting (11:30)
Chapter 23--Aylsbury Prison (44:24)
Chapter 24--Titled Visitors and Victims (13:18)
Chapter 25--Prison Schools (15:24)
Chapter 26--Gleason and Lyons--Contrasts (18:37)
Chapter 27--My Second Deportation (11:27)
Chapter 28--Home, Sweet Home (7:25)
Chapter 29--The Straight and Narrow Way (11:27)
Chapter 30--The Procurer (22:51)
Chapter 31--Criminal Jargon (16:03)
Chapter 32--Aliases, Crooks, and Others (23:52)
Chapter 33--Temporary Addresses (25:35)
Chapter 34--Toward the Setting Sun (26:04)
Chapter 35--Au Revoir, But Not Good-By (14:03)