The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-28
DIR. THOMAS COYLE.

STRANGE CoINoIDENcE-THREE THohAs Coytxy.
To the Editor ofthe Pilot & Tra,ssyiyf;
| GIR-ln your valuable paper Of the aolh uitimo
~ read Of the trial. conviction and sentence passed
for one year I'm the criminal cousb Of Phdephia) on
q certain Thomas COye, for fraudulent Insolvency, and
having had dealings with MIR. CoyIe, OF BaItnore I
am DESTROYS Of beng informed whether your Thsmas
Coyle and my Doctor Coye like the Simese twins
for the description you have given of your Thons.
C0yle is so near TO that OF DOc Thomas COVE Iyf-
once lived in Baltimore, that it strikes they are one
and the same; and that these two Coyles fam tlar
description, have brother living in the cv of Raj
tlmore--that if the three TO undergo, ninut-
examination, the best judges would declare all the
Coyes 10 be one and the same compound of Fesensnss
cement touched of in the hydraulic styIe The 10
| crpuon of my Thomas Coye is Is folslvs:-Ie has a
rather round face, peck marked, quick in svsecb so
and persuasive about feet inches in beight baS cre
eyes, the lids generally red or infamed and us,iaJr
wore green specaces, but laehy has raised gold psir
for Sundays, and other days, nights of ectIlaons
To be ssre lie has certain grin which neuer can f,r
get his age is about 40 years. Having now the des
enpuon OF 10y Ihomas Coyey permit to AJAX the citi
zehs oil BALTIMORE and Philadelphia a few aueste.ns 10,
see u they can help me to distinguish yous Thomas
Coyie from mine. will date nv Thomas CouIo X,
Town some 10 or Is years ago; and senerally
ON going Down town, carried book under ms arm ami
passed as Doctor Co,lebu report saws that b n5ofs
saoha an vas so great that could not be so wen ar
compshed here as in New York. so he left his friends
and Scrabble Town, and down East he started 1bs
Iex hearsbof my Thomas Coye w4s leaving The c;,,y
OF Philadelphia with small pack, and he Dedded
through the counties OF Bucks and Lebanon m P.nr
syivana, for years--bavng made a raise-cotnmencaa
business IN North Second street. then IN Church alley
ana Dnap IN Lebanon county, where he had some So
vera stores, which he about quitting when he was
arrested for debt; and stated OF your Thomas Cove
niue was tned by jury of his country and found
guilty, Apnl 4tl, 1884. He applied for a new trial. bat
1t was not granted and the court of general guaF
ter sessions that sentenced your Thomas CoyIe for one
year on the 18TH of july 1884 passed the same Identical
sentence on the same day my Thomas Coyle for one
year DON'T recolhect about the shaving one half Of
the head put am told il is customary in such cases
particularly II one side is afected-here lest sight OF
my Dr' Ihomas Coyle: but TO my astonish.uent on
the Ith OF September 1885, learnt of another Thomas
Coyle, then in the city OF PhiIadelphia Obtaining a
euer OF attorney from certain d. A. Bafcau To Iae
SAID Balcams compound riseAaus cement patened ana
entered according to law by said Bacam in the State.
Of PENNSYLVANIA and Maryland and this third Thomas
Coyie sells out next TO A. W. Kenny his right TO use
SAID Bhlcam's cement in the State of PennsyIvapia
and then found my third Thomas Coyle and said Ken
ny with their letters of attorney in the CITY of BaIt-
more before James Blair nagsiTate and ON the Dist of
January, 1887, said Kenny and Thomas Cuye were
before him, and that the said Thomas Coyle then be-
tHre squire Blair was, and is the same Thomas CoyIa
seen Anew days ago m Baltimore and had heen indis-
posed as reported Finally, Thomas CoyIe the third
dl soHAe three or four years ago, keep small tavern
or gos shop IN Paca street, door to the engine
house, and gave one flaming Ball, sold out and wen1
West or South.
ANY information respecting the Thomas Coyles, Ieft
with the Editor of .he Pilot & TRANSCRIPT Baltimore
VIII De mghy acknowledged by TERRANCE.