The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-22

lum. He worked with the best, and did
clever things while he had hia wits; but
faro. banks ana women knocked him out.
William Boyer, alias sBolls,' who was called
the king propmsn,' because of his handy
way Of stealing gentlemens diamond pins
(prorsl. died without penny; and Tommy
Stack, the pickpocket who. q good many
years ago, robbed New York editor OF
So, 600 in government bonds, is now para
ly zed, blind, and q burden to himself He
IVES psTdoned out of the Charlestown penI.
tertiary IS an utter wreck.
Tim O'Brien, alias Red Tim, very no.
ted expert pickpocket and gambler, once
worth thousands, died in Philadelphia con.
sumpiive, without dollar or friend. Pete
Wiley, who had hand in many large silk
robberies, died there, too, poor aud miserable.
No friend came to see Charles Roths-
child, tie shoplifter, who once drove his
fCur-in-hand and scattered his money with 8
lavish hand On his death bed, he did not
lesve enough to defrsy the expenses of the
commonest funeral. jacob Levy, q pick.
pocket and weil-known receiver of stolen
goods in Hester street, who owned q large
farm at Jerusalem, Long Island, and was
looked upon as wealthy, died penniless in a
New York hospital.
aKerwin Carr, hotel and house Ihief, who
with Troy Dennis and Bill Vesburgh, stole
500 GOO st the house of Mr.. Moore, on Mad
lson avenue, died in the Blsckwells Island
Insane Asylum without dollar. OF his two
confederates, Troy Dennis, whose speciality
was that of accord story worker was
killed while committing burglary in Thir-
ty-fourth street. The window coping fell on
him. He was penniless. Bill Vosburgh,
who is yet alive, is poor and miserable. He
is at present working the iron pier at Coney
Islsnd.
Joseph Butts, of Wohigemuth, the IA
nous 'hotel-worker,' who in the summer of
1867 robbed five rooms in the fifth story of
the st. Nicholas hotel, by stepping from win
dow to window on the sills, died q year and
half ago in hospital in this city, an out
cast. James Dolsn, alias the DOCTOR who
picked pockets with Red Lesry at the Paris
exposition and was sent to he gslleys for
FIVE years, died sfterwsrd in Sing Sing. a
broken man. Ike Weber, the counterfeit
er, went around, q beggar, year before he
died. He wss the able representative of the
Pennsylvania 'konisckers,' who made money
hand over fist, and spent it as fast. Dick
Moore-'Ten -to-one Dick-who stole more
than 81 COO, 0C0 and gsmbled it away, lived
in New York in abject poverty full year,
before ne died of consumption.
Charley Becker. the famous engraver and
counterfeiter, who was in the gang that oper-
ated on the continent in American letters of
credit, and came to grief in Florence, was
sfterward sent to prison in Brooklyn for st
tempting to forge French bank notes.
He died there without money or
friends, alter making repeated but vain
efforts to escape. The bank burglar,
james Griffin, who, after assisting in the
theft of 100000 at the Wall street
office of the Royal Insurance Company, was
cheated by Dan Noble, his partner, and
turned States evidence against him, lied
psuper; and 60 did Jack Ludlow, the confed-
crate of Max Shinburne and George Miles,
in the Ocean bank robbery. Scott, who was
IN the Northampton bank burglary, and got
twenty years for it, died after serving out
two years of his service, and his share OF the
8 Glen 100000 never came to light
George Howard, the expert bsnk-burglar
who, it is said, used to buy intricate safe
locks and spend months in his room studying
their mechanism, was found killed in Win
chester county one day 1t was supposed
that he had been shot dead by his associate
for cheating him. So far as known he owned
nothing. Neither did the thief Jesse Allen,
of the we'll known Allen family in this city.
After serving a seven years sentence In
Ohio for Cleveland bank, he was found
dead in the rear Of country railway depot,
with kit of burglars tools lying beside him.
He had apparently died q natural death
when about to commit q crime. John
Hughes, a notorious burglar, who was shot
dead while blowing up safe in New jersey,
had gSmbled away fortune and hsd not
cent left
"Big John Garvey,a 'second-story work.
err who had stolen enough to make twenty
men rich and yet remained poor, fell through
q well-hole in q Brooklyn house with his
arms full of silver wedding presents he had
stolen, and wa killed. Gsrvey 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
"psl," Tom Mccormick, in Twenty-seventh
street, in quarrel over the division of mon
ey stolen from q Philadelphia bank. His
wife, Ellen Casey, wss s professional pick
pocket. While plying her trade on Eighth
avenue on the day of the Orange riot in July,
1871, she was shot in the leg, and when she
was searched st the hospital twelve pocket.
books were found on her. She is now in En-
gland, whore sha was arrested year ago
for trying 20 force an orphan girl to learn
the trade of a thief.-New York World.