"City Intelligence: Incidents of City Life," New York Times, Mar. 20, 1860, p. 8

.... MARY SMITH, cook on the canal boat Plymouth, lying at Pier No. 5, East River, was shockingly misused in a Water-street saloon, on Sunday night. Officer LOGAN found her afterwards lying insensible in Chatham-street and took her to the Hospital where she lies in a critical condition... CORNELIUS COLLINS, while driving a light wagon through the New Bowery, ran his vehicle over CHARLES DILLO, a boy three years of age, and injuring him severely. Officer TOOLE, of the Fourth Precinct, arrested COLLINS on a charge of reckless driving.

"Police Reports" New York Times, August 29, 1860, p. 5

"Outrage upon a Girl"

On Monday night, the Fourth Ward Police, made a descent upon a house of prostitution kept at No. 6 James Street, by Adolphe Marks and his wife Mary, and arrested the keepers, together with ten abandoned females who were its inmates. Marks and his wife were held to answer at Court, and the others were disposed of as vagrants. The complaint was made by a young girl named Mary Ann Murphy, who stated that about a week ago the woman Marks hired her to do housework, but on the night of her arrival at the house, ordered her to follow the course of the other female inmates of the house. She refused, and on the following night she received a similar order. She refused again, and then started to leave the house, but Marks' wife seized her and beat her unmercifully. One of the vile inmates of the house also made an attack upon her, and bit one of her fingers nearly off. The girl, continuing to resist, the wretches set a large dog upon her. The animal threw her to the floor, and bit her hand completely through the palm. After a desperate struggle she got out of the house, and made her way to the Fourth Ward Police-station, where she told what had occurred. The girl was promptly conveyed to Bellevue Hospital, where she lies in a precarious situation. Her hand is terribly lacerated, and it is feared tetanus may set in. The Police then started for the infamous den, and arrested the parties, as above stated.

The jail, officially titled the Manhattan House of Detention for men, 100 Centre Street