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His dismissal was hardly masterminded by a group of shadowy, secretive elites, as the Herald seems to imply. It seems likely that, rather than this being an egregious miscarriage of justice, people thought he should be fired because a malnourished mass of prisoners were constantly escaping while Acker was running back and forth to Madame Restell’s cell and asking if she needed more sugar for her coffee.
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
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