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| | urbanography - 1857 -The Gang Riots in New York, by Gregory J. Christiano, Page 2 |
 | | Rabbits” on the drinking saloons, No. 40 Bowery, which seems to have been the headquarters of the Bowery boys, severely injuring a number of the inmates, breaking the windows, and doing a good deal of damage. |
 | | There was also considerable fighting during the latter part of the night between these rowdies and a party of men in the Bowery, near the theatre. |
 | | At the corner of Elizabeth street, while the exasperated mob was at their heels, ready to tear them to pieces, they met some members of engine companies in the vicinity, and the Bowery boys, who sided with them, and at some of them say, preserved them from certain massacre. |
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