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Autobiography of a Thief

Name: Autobiography of a Thief
Author: Hutchins Hapgood

Hutchins Hapgood

Read by Ben Adams · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Intro - Editor's Note (5:52)
Chapter I - Boyhood and Early Crime (20:54)
Chapter II - My First Fall (18:38)
Chapter III - Mixed-Ale Life in the Fourth and Seventh Wards (25:24)
Chapter IV - When the Graft Was Good (17:33)
Chapter V - Mamie and the Negotiable Bonds (18:55)
Chapter VI - What the Burglar Faces (26:56)
Chapter VII - In Stir (23:55)
Chapter VIII - In Stir (continued) (30:37)
Chapter IX - In Stir and Out (21:08)
Chapter X - At the Graft Again (27:39)
Chapter XI - Back to Prison (30:09)
Chapter XII - On the Outside Again (50:18)
Chapter XIII - In the Mad-House (35:54)
Chapter XIV - Out of Hell (18:39)
Editor's Postscript (2:24)