Pickpocket's TaleThe Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

George Appo is the child of Irish and Chinese immigrants. In his world, child pickpockets swarmed the streets, addicts drifted in opium dens and swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. However, Appo made himself an exemplar of the "good fellow", a criminal who followed a code of loyalty even in his world of artifice and deception.