Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-18

Thirty-fourtn street. The wind ov .oouins 1 fell on him. He was penniless R;,I WoS burgh, who IS yet alive, is poor txnd mixara ! ble. He is at present working" the iron ,,ie, at Coney Island.
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 hotel worker, who in the su nmer eF Snc5 robbed five rooms in the if sh story of De St Nicholas Hotel, by stepping from wj,,do1,, ~, ~ window on the sills, died a year aud LoIs ago in 8 hospital in this city, an ont oost rastA James Dolan, alias tie Doctc, r, wbo ,;cirsJ pockets with Red Lf,ary 9. the Paris exposi. st Sion 4Ano "aS dt to the galleys for hve years. djed afterwards in Sing Sing, a broken ins.-. Ike Weber, the coun, terie,1er to n ,s %snS around, beggar, year be- toio t;n ue ue He was the able representa- @ Ste ot .ne Pennsylvania tcognacers' who eaa. -noney hand over fist and spent it as a1'' aa Dick One Dick'-who D .ole more than $1, 900, 900 and gambled it 1 full year before he died of consumption. Charlie Becker, the famous engraver and counterfeiter, who was in the gang that op erated on the continent in American letters of credit, and came to grief in Florence, was afterward sent to prison in Brooklyn for at- 1 tempting to forge French bank notes. He died there without money or friends after making repeated but vain attempts to escape The bank burglar James Griffn who, after assisting in the theft of $200;000 at the Wall street office of the London In surance company, was cheated by Dan Noble, his partner, and turned States evidence against him, died psuper, and so did Jack Ludlow, the confederate of Mark Shinburne and George Miles, in the Ocean bank robbery. Scott, who was in the Northampton bank burglary and got twenty years for 1t, died after serving out two years of his service and his share of the stolen $80O,0o0 never came to light.
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 George Howard, the expert bank burglar, who, It Is said, used to buy intricate safe locks and spend months in his room study Ing their mechanism, was found killed in Westchester county one day. It was sup posed that he had been shot dead by his as- sociates for cheating them. So far as known he owned nothing. Neither did the thief Jesse Allen, of the well known Allen family in this city. After serving a seven years sentence in Ohio for robbing Cleveland bank, he found dead in the rear of country railroad depot, with a kit of bur l glars tools lying beside him. He had apparently died a natural death when about | to commit crime. John Hughes, notori- 1 ous burglar, who was shot dead while blow l ing up safe in New Jersey, had gambled away fortune and had not cent left.
 Big John Garvey, 'second-story work ! er,' who had stolen enough to make twenty men rich and yet remained poor, fell through a well hole in 8 Brooklyn house with his arms full of silver wedding presents he had stolen and was killed. Garvey escaped from Sing Sing so cleverly that his keepers never could find out how till he was caught and went back and showed them. Jim Casey, the | bank burglar was shot dead by his pal, Tom Mccormick in Twenty seventh street, in a quarrel over the division of money stol- l en from Philadelphia bank. His wife, FL I len Casey, was professional pickpocket. l While plying her trade on Eighth avenue on | the day of the Orange riot in July, 1871, she | ed at the hospital twelve pocketbooks were | found cn her. She is now in England, where she was arrested year ago for trying to force an American orphan girl to learn the trade of a thief.