His father was a crazy Chinese murderer and his mother was an Irish alcohol addiction. Despite lacking proper family development, the mission in George Appo's life had to be a typical "Good Fellow".
The definition of George Uppo's phrase "Good Fellow" was an expert thief, a person who did not cooperate with the authorities, a person who absolutely refused to testify in the courtroom, even opposed the enemy. Appo is autobiographical 99 pages, and it is written that it is never published. "It is a criminal, a cash acquirer, a consumer, to compose Good Fellow in front of you and guess the underground world.Results and punishment Even if the crime was committed by another, it was arrested There is no Good Fellow was a member of a thief 's brothers and sisters.
In the late 1840s, George Uppo's father Qimbo Appo ran his own tea business in New York City before moving to New Haven, Connecticut. In 1855, Quimbo Appo met Catherine Fitzpatrick. Irish immigrant and only a few years to America. They got married, and in 1856, Catherine Uppo has two children. The first person is said to have died during childbirth, but the second one is "a healthy and healthy boy, very lying, white like a mother, Yankee 's boy.
Immediately after George Apo was born, his father went back to New York City with his family. After working as a tea tester by several companies, in 1859 Quimbo Appo opened his own tea shop in 3rd Avenue between 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue.
Quimbo Appo had a violent temper and was exacerbated by his wife 's constant drunk. On 8th March 1859, Quimbo Appo returned home from work and found three wives in the wind as usual. As he began to hit Catherine Abppo, the head of the building, Mary Fletcher and two other tenants, Margaret Butler and Mary Gabigan interrupted and tried to stop the beating. Quimbo Appo was very furious, took off the knife and stabbed Fletcher twice in my chest. Fletcher was lethally injured on the floor and shouted "my god." Quimbo Appo then stabbed the Gabi gun in his arm and stabbed Butler in his head.
Quimbo Appo went to another Chinese dormitory, but the police quickly found it hidden under the bed. After he was arrested, Kimbo Appo to the police say, "Yes, I killed her.
On the previous page of the Herald Tribune, the next day, "The Murder of the 4th Ward" was read.
The trial of Quimbo Appo took place on 11th April 1859. The jury did not take an hour to convict. Despite the prosecutor, lawyer Nelson J. Waterbury ordered prison sentence in a month and Judge Davis sentenced him to death to Quimbo Appo. However, a lawyer at Quimbo Appo attended the case and on May 8, 1860 Morgan Gogon canceled the death sentence of Quimbo Appo and appointed for 10 years at Sing Sing's prison.
But Quimbo Appo's 10 year love affair has evolved into a lifelong sentence due to the tendency of Quimbo Appo's violence and because he was basically a crazy person. As a result of several violent incidents, and strange behavior in his part, Quimbo Appo never became a freelan again. He died at Watteawan Hospital on criminal crazy on 23rd June 1912.
After his father was imprisoned, George Uppo and his mother returned to the slum / apartment of Oliver Street. After that, Katherine Uppo decided to take her son and his sister to the "Golden Gate" to visit San Francisco's Catherine brothers. However, the ship was handled and settled in a violent storm. Appo's mother and sister both died, Appo managed to survive.
Apo is writing like this. "I can not explain how I was saved, but the sailor brought me to New York and left it in a very poor family, Allen.
The family of the Allen lives in a small strip of hidden soil, residential area in the vicinity, little light in the daytime, in the tennant alley "Donovan 's alley" (Murderer & # 39; s Alley) in the rear door. There is a possibility that it will invade into the alley you did.
Apo said, "There was one entrance to Baxter and one entrance to Pearl Street, poor people of all nationalities lived in this lane of Donovan," Black Mike & # 39 " Effect of purchased 5 cents of rum Cohen's shop was the place where all Chinamen in the city had lived. At that time, there were only about 60 Chinamen. It was called Chinatown.
"Donovan lane" or "5 points" that was in the center of the worst slum in New York City if you wanted China Town. With human intervention, Apo learned the secret of trade which made it possible to live a decent life in criminal life. Apo is about 10 years old, people at that time became a member of the "street head", "Arab", "street rat", or the guttersnipe sweeping party. "Apop was studying honestly at a low level of work, including selling fresh shoes and sidewalks, newspapers, but completed the true love of art that picks up pockets.
The young boy selling the newspaper was very easy to pick a pocket of undoubted mark. Upo was shaking the newspaper with the face of the customer while changing facial expression with one hand of Affo selling the newspaper, but # 39 chooses the pocket of the victim.
Appo 's pick marketer' s leader was a craftsman named Jim Caulfield. Caulfield once told the policeman. "If you stand the newspaper under your chin, you can take watches, clocks, chains, and even socks.
In the winter of 1871, Apo picked up a pocket of a downtown businessman. A businessman picked up the Appo from his neck and handed it to the police saying "This boy robbed me 28 dollars just from my best pocket."
Appo admitted guilty before Judge Joseph Dowling. The judge sentenced the appointment to an irregularly floating reformist in the naval vessel "Mercury". Mercury housed 242 boys. The boys were convicted of crime such as wandering, clumsiness, theft. On the ship, we made all kinds of rope knots essential for navigation, seaman ship, military training and navigation. There were reading, writing, and math classes for boys.
However, the life of mercury was pastoral. The food was dry. Water was filthy, infectious pathogens penetrated the ship.
In 1872, Mercury traveled to Barbados for 9 months. When coming back to Hearts Island from the coast of Manhattan, Apo and other boys ran away from the ship by dropping the rope with a rope. After arriving at the coast of downtown Manhattan, they returned to the lane of Donovan and pockets again.
In 1874, Apo was taken to a police officer who chose the executive pocket of Wall Street. Appo tried to escape the scene, but a detective who ran away pursued him and fired an affair pistol. Apo hit once in the stomach, but he ran away.
Apo dropped in at the building of 300 Pearl Street and went to the apartment which the Maher occupied. While Mrs. Maher hid Appo under the bed she left for the son in front of the apartment and ordered that the police officer was in the area. When the coast was clear, the apartment fled the apartment and received treatment in St. Louis. Luke Hospital from a doctor who was friends with one of Allo 's Allied forces. The bullets in Appo 's stomach were removed and Appo was returning as before. Six months later, Apple caught a pocket again. He was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months imprisonment at Sing Sing prison and received a ruling.
At Sing Sing, Appo was united with his father. Senior · Uppo was normal on most days, but on his bad day he was crazy. He said, "I am the king of the world.
At Sing Sing, Appo found employment in the laundry room as a "holding down" shirt. After Appo incorrectly baked a piece of shirt, Appo's teeth were knocked out by one of the security guards. Three security guards brought Appo to the security room, handcuffed him from behind and lay down on the paddle board table. There Appo was given the old nine sharp eyelashes to disappoint his consciousness on his back and spinal column. When he reconfirmed consciousness, the head keeper said to the apo: "Do you think you can work backwards? Otherwise, we have a way to make you.
Appo told the keeper. "You punished me without doing anything, and if I bring you here, I will punish myself for something.
Appo tripped over the laundry shop. He was quickly waiting waiting for his shirt on his table. I put it in a hot stove and immediately turned to ashes. After his dirty act was discovered, Appo was returned to the security room. Upon being asked why he did what he did, Upo refused to answer. Appo immediately took one of the "dark cells", where he was hospitalized for 14 days. During that 14 days Appo was given 2 ounces of bread and a glass of water every 24 hours.
After serving for 30 months at prison in Sing Sing, Appo was released on April 2, 1876. To my surprise, surprised, he soon returned to picking up his pocket. Over the next eight years Apo was arrested twice more for pickpocking and finally returned to prisons on both sides at Black Wells Island. Appo ran away from the blackwell island by pulling the rope down from the ship where he was working. Until he docked downtown Manhattan, the apo jumped on a small boatman and rowed. Appo immediately immersed the boat, headed for the city of Mulberry, and was able to rent clothes. The next day, Apo escaped to Philadelphia.
Appo was taking a lot of Philadelphia pockets, but the charm of the old street in downtown Manhattan, especially opium, was too big for the apo to resist. Returning to the sixth district, Appo decided to engage in the flimflam business out of his usual pickpackering. The main fraud of Appo was giving shopkeepers wrong changes of bills of $ 10 or $ 20. This racquet went well for a while until Appo was brought to a jewelry shop short-circuiting the owner. However, due to the treatment of Mr. Howe and Hummel's bad law firm, Apo managed to escape from the prison somehow.
In the early 1890s, catching a man with a pick pocket criminal and a flim flam became a favorite entertainment of New York City police. So Appo decided to try a new plan, a plan that is not likely to be arrested. This system was called "green product fraud".
Green product Swindle was doing three work. It began with the "operator" who hired the "author", ie, the boss, the circle was sent to all regions of the country. The basis of these circulations was to make people agree to purchase counterfeit money. The green goods circle contained the following words.
I will not be obvious until I find out that your heart is true to me. Please give me detailed safety. Can be used in any way for any purpose, useful articles without risk "
Writers will also include the price of their goods in the circulation. A typical price list looks like this: I will charge $ 100 for $ 1200 for my item (assortment). For $ 2500 of my item (assortment) I will charge $ 200. $ 10,000 for my items (assortment) I charge $ 600.
These circulations were sent to people across the country who invested in various lottery tickets. The feeling of the "operator" was that it is the type of people most likely to do something illegal for financial gain. Confeder soldiers also sent a circulation. According to Ambrose Purdy, an associate lawyer at New York City, "The former federal allies were emotionally besieged and considered to be a good way to hurt the government's green products because of the economic burden."
When communication between "Mark" and "Operator" was established, I was instructed to go to New York City and the suburbs near New York by train. There, Mark will satisfy the third cog of the green goods con artist called "steerer".
A steering contractor who is one of George Appo will meet the mark of the railway station and take him to an operator who was waiting for a mark at a counterfeit storefront or hotel room, or "turning point". The operator marks a sample of his "counterfeit" money that was actually a legitimate bid. Mark is satisfied with giving the operator the amount he agreed to purchase "strange bills" that the amount that he certainly looked right. The operator puts counterfeit prize money in an inexpensive suitcase. After that, we decided to temporarily remove the attention of the mark and divert it. During this diversion the "operator" will switch suitcases and exchange for what was given by one of his allies. Of course, the second suitcase was flat ordinary paper, sometimes filled with sand.
In this regard, the job of steering was to put the mark out soon before Mark noticed he was being deceived. As additional insurance, the operator used local police officers, or criminal cases, sometimes several local police officers or detectives. A policeman is arrested and threatened if the police officer is on the train or on the train before leaving the train. He tried illegal trading first, so Mark will not be reliable.
One such illegal green goods scammer took George Uppo's living expenses hardly. In February 1893, Apo operated a green goods cheat with Jim McNally. Apo was instructed by McNally to meet two men at a hotel in Poughkeepsie, New York. Apo went to Poughkeepsie's New York hotel and entered the two rooms of North Carolina's famous entrepreneurs Hilam Kassel and Ira Hoggshead. Appo put a letter into the cave that identifies Appo as a connection between a gentleman (operator) and two men. Appo told the two men to take the train to the station, get on the train at Mott Haven, and see the counterfeit money you are buying. After the transaction was completed, Apo said he would take men directly to the train station, pay the fare and go home. While talking to the train station, Appo needed to walk ten feet behind Appo and told the man that he should not talk to anyone, including Appo.
When the apo arrived at the railway station, he met Hiram Kassel, but Islah Hogshead stopped near the station. Recently, the same police officers and police officers who had problems with Jim · McNally were talking. Previous fraud. Apo approached Hogshead and asked why he was talking to a police officer. Mr. Hogshead said, "I did not care about business and changed my mind."
After returning the man to the hotel room, Hoogshead claimed that the contract was concluded and asked that Affo should immediately leave the hotel room. When Uppo was shaking Kassel's hand, Hogshead shot apo to the right temple. Appo was brought to the hospital with a serious medical condition. A few days later, Appo's right eye was infected and had to be deleted.
Cassel and Hogshead photographed Appo and tried it. However, Apo refused to testify with a simple $ 50 fine, keeping the truth in the "good companion" code and releasing Kassel and Hogs head to the judge. However, Apo was arrested for arrest of Greengoods Swindle and dispatched with labor of 3 years and 2 months. In addition, Appo was fined $ 250.
On November 28, 1893, the Court of Appeals of the State of New York fortunately for the apollo after only a few months at Clinton Prison the New York State Court of Appeals overturned the apo's ruling.
The feelings betrayed by Jim · McNally and a general green commodity dealer, Apo agreed to testify participation in the Lexou committee, which was investigating the corruption of the police, in particular with the participation in Green Goods Swindle. Although Apo did not tell the committee what he did not know already, in the city of New York City it was brand-felt in the rat and was avoided from those who worked for years.
George Uppo approached George W. Lederer, the producer of the factory which was refurbished in September of 1894, and took a break. Lederer offered Appo to his new play named "In the Tenderloin", which Appo was simply playing in theater about New York underbury. Apo was playing for a couple of years in this theater, but at the end of the game, Riddler paid $ 15,000 for an unpaid salary. Appo made a few years of effort, but never collected his money from Lederer.
At the beginning of the 20th century George Uppo decided to live a life protected from crime. He worked as a car vacuum cleaner at the Grand Central Terminal, as a Calvary church, a salad dress factory, and a handsman of Alexander Haden, a reformer of billionaires. In 1915, Apo began working for the government during the investigation of the opium nest. Appo received a salary of $ 6 a month, and the rent of the apartment was also $ 6 a month. Shortly, Appo's salary was raised to $ 10 a month.
In his last year, little was heard about George Apo. What is known is that Apo lived in a small apartment in a hellish kitchen on the west side of Manhattan. On August 10, 1929, George Uppo was hospitalized at Manhattan State Hospital on Ward Island. At that time, the apo was hardly heard and almost completely invisible.
On May 17, 1930 he died at the age of 73 alone from the effects of old age, despite being shot four times, twice stabbed (once in throat) and beaten cruelly at the prison.
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