The New York herald., 1870-09-19
THE ROGUEg GALLERY.
A Glimpse In the Menagerie
OF Thieves.
The Various Grades Of Crime-Some Of the
Hard Cases-The Danger which Floats
Around Us-A Wide and Desolate
Waste Of Humanity.

Hard CaSes-Ino Danger Wn1cn floau
Around Us-A Wide and Desolats
Waste Of Humanity.
In rear room Of the detective department, Gen.
tral Police once, Mulberry street, the famous
| Rogues' Gallery is contained. 1t is q rare and
unique collection, embracing the portraits Of 6l9
rogues and rascals OF varying grades In vice and
moral obliquity. Five hundred OF the whole number
are condemned by their looks Alone the remaining
nineteen might pass for honest people II they only
behaved themselves. This collection has been the
work OF four years. It contains the portraits none
but professional thieves all OF whom are familiar to
the police About half the total number are doing
the State some service in Clinton and Sing Sing
prisons, the other half are abroad among us,
ready at any time 70 make the most Of their
evil opportunities. But not all exactly here
among us In New York. Comfortable q place
OF residence as this city makes for most thieves it
occasionally grows too warm for over ardent profess
sonals. They are within the limits OF the Union
somewhere but 1t needs little shrewdness to guess
that the bulk Of the battalion patrOnize New York.
THE IDEA OF RoGUEs' GALLERY
was first started In 1857 and, according to Detective
Oicer Eustace, the credit OF originating IT lies with
the detective force of this city. The plan has since
been adopted in every principal city in the country,
and recently the London police have introduced in
their system. The gallery started In 1857 was
ultimately broken up by reason OF the Indifferent
character OF the ambrotypes which were either 30
badly taken or faded and blurred by time that they
were practically useless for purposes Of identinca-
tion. With the bursting up Of the old gallery many
portraits OF distinguished burglars and pckpockets
were lost or consigned to oblivion. The present
gallery began dc n0UO with card photographs In
place Of ambrotypes, and as all the r0gues who
graced the Old gallery we're given over to dumb
fOrgetfulness, 1t was necessary to proceed by slow
degrees towards the accumulation OF new set.
Ordinary thieves were numerous enough, but only
the professional birds were privileged to appear In
the gilt edged albums, ana as they were hard to
catch at most times the work OF collection involved
considerable time and a nice discriminating taste.
Half dozen Of those now In the gallery are dead
and buried and it is scarcely worth while to retain
the impress Of their unpTepossessing features any
longer In the collection.
FOUR BRANCHES OF THE CRIMINAL ART
cover majority Of the roguesnamely, shoplifting,
pocket picking, burglary and sneak thieving. In
these dozen or 30 Of the whole number have made
name for themselves, and are talked OF by the de-
tectves as being celebrated" In such and such
line. detective, IN looking over the treasured por-
traits in this gallery, casts glance at the face OF
some notorious rogue whom he may have captured
U
figures OF the game he once gallantly hunted down.
In the long and closely written index or gulde 10
the gallery the following list Of crmai criminal avoca coG
dence man, burglar panel thief, general THIEF, sneak
thief, snatcher, tlI-tapper (numerousl pickpOcket
hotel thief dishonest servant and p0cketbo0k drop
per. The sneak thieves and confidence men are the
best looking in the vile collection. The confidence
man has the honestest face, the burglar the most
fOrbiddlng. The sneak thief has willy. keen, snis-
ter appearance, the pickpocket is o Shiny wretch,
I'm die hon n
THE THIEVES NOMENCLATURE.
The aliases which some OF them adopt are Ordi-
nary Names but among their pals and known to the
detectives many whose sObrtQuets are distinct
i've and deslgnatory OF some parncuar leaCare IN
patronymic is called "Red Nose Barney;' another
old Sow" Others are called Tespeo,,yey "IanK" nE
"Johnny the Greek" and SO on. The Germans in
the gallery show decided penchant for shopllrtng,
the Irish for house larcenes and the. na-
tives Of the United States for all combineu.
THERE ARE THREE GARR0TERs
imported from the prolific soil Of Old England. They.
are together in the album and evenly matched
now rnralIzing in Sing Sing. The first Of them has
a complacenty wicked look out OF his eyes and
daredevil assurance generally nat must nave nave MADE
guards. or this pair, one, to make an odious COM
parison, Is not unlike the hero Garibadi but with
The other is perfect type OF the London cracks
man. broad-shOuldered, bull-necked. and all animal
Ill
kenesses In addition to the collection OF portraits
Mr. Moore, clerk Of the office, Keeps book in which
the thieves are fully ticketed for reference The fol-
lowing is sample OF detailed skctch:-
"NO 43S.-Francis +. Pinto, aged % five feet seven
inches. 1876 to 14o pounds. dark brown hair scar on
the right side Of chin dark hazel eyes, very heavy
black eyebrows, figure Of woman on right forearm,
woman in sitting posture; arrested by Ohcer Kohler,
ne sss IN s
$685. brought to this ofice by Dunn and Doan, or
| the Sixth precinct
| Wright pal Of Eagans.n The pal" connection in
this instance is quite enough for the detectives. II
they fail to find Charley they hunt up Eagan, and
| the opal" is sure to be near at hand.
| HIGHWAY ROBBER
robbern Turning over to the gallery you dnd the
| man, and almost instDctivey shrink before his
fierce and unrelenting looks Frederick looks every
| clothes, dark flannel shirt without collar. and
seems as il he had just quilted the penitentiary,
| with a malignant remembrance OF his cOnfnement.
| The head Is shaped like an inverted pumpkin, hair
cropped very Close and hyena like viciousness OF
expression turks around the mouth He might be
put down rs belonging to the class or irrecaimabe
| runians who are born to scOurge society and make
mockery of both humanity and civilization.
Among the early patrons OF the gallery and early
| entries in the record is mo. 3, William Johnson,
Johnson came TO be dubbed Tip Little not stated,
but anybody curious enough to go into the inquiry
would be apt to conclude it was because ne shared
his lgotten gains parsmOniousy with his ''pals."
No. 20 Is Mrs. Clinesmth the bright particular evil
star among the feminine notabilities. She mas been
arrested and convicted many times for shopliltng,
Her skill and daring as a shOpfter are very great
She appears comfortably dressed, but most uncOm-
fOrtaby disappointed at her last venture. Her face
is without solitary eredeeming feature-rugged,
coarse and repulsive with criminal thought stamped
| IN every line.
! ONE OF THE ALIENS AND OTHERS.
| "Mart" Allen, one OF the precious branches OF the
Allen family tree. turns up here at No. 2l0. He Is
dangerous character, thoughtful but desperate, mus
cular and determined, and capable of perpetratine
any crime against the decalOgue. In conjunction
with another villain he robbed Adams Express, was
| confined IN Danbury jail, but by some means man.
| aged TO escape and IS still at large.
No. 232 is ''Dutch HEINRICH a bank sneak thief,
| a bold brazenfaced fellow, who at the present mo
ment is at large but whether IN the city or not is
| uncertain.
No. 2s5-George Thompson, alias GuniOn, sneat
thief and general handy man in any criminal enter
prize. There Is something OF a udicrOus impu
dence in the looks Of ths character His face Is la
| II hic al-a - ida acf Qcr