. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. ORIGINAL NEW YORK HALL OF PRESENT HALL OF RECORDS. New York Vol. Twi>. NEW YORK CITY LIFE give commands to the prisoners to turn over. Cun-ningham appropriated much of the food that wasprovided for the prisoners, supplying them with thescantiest and meanest fare, and making a personalprofit out of that which he took to himself. It issaid that when he was executed in England forother crimes he confessed that he had starved manyto death by appropriating the food intended forthem and selling it. He caused
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. ORIGINAL NEW YORK HALL OF PRESENT HALL OF RECORDS. New York Vol. Twi>. NEW YORK CITY LIFE give commands to the prisoners to turn over. Cun-ningham appropriated much of the food that wasprovided for the prisoners, supplying them with thescantiest and meanest fare, and making a personalprofit out of that which he took to himself. It issaid that when he was executed in England forother crimes he confessed that he had starved manyto death by appropriating the food intended forthem and selling it. He caused the well from whichthe prisoners were supplied with drinking water tobe contaminated with rubbish, so that they weredenied the common privilege of decent drinkingwater. There is some question of the authenticityof the published confession, but Lossing quotes thesewords without hesitation: I shudder to think ofthe murders I have been accessory to, with andwithout orders from government, especially while inNew York, during which time there were more thantwo thousand prisoners starv^ed in the differentchu
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