New York's 'numbers racket' was the scourge of the city's slums in the 1800s; said to be the " lowest, meanest, worst form that gambling takes in the city of New York, is what is known as policy playing". In this eyewitness account find out how the destitute gambled on the numbers game and the wretched conditions to which it reduced people. Living in Miserable tenements, rags, hunger and, all too often, a short life, bereft of hope.

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