"Becker said that he was being sacrificed for his friends"

In this chapter, we introduce Senator "Big" Tim Sullivan - a prominent Tammany Hall politician with deep roots in the Bowery. The Patron Saint of immigrant masses and every imaginable illicit activity alike, he was beloved yet corrupt beyond measure.

Mentor to the murdered Herman Rosenthal and a friend to Lt. Becker, Sen. Sullivan comfortably existed in both worlds and perhaps linked them in more ways than we know.

He was perhaps the only person who could have saved Becker from the electric chair, had he not met his own untimely (yet convenient for some) demise.

WARNING: some descriptions of crime scenes and dismemberment.