The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
IdVGLAR BILL hickey KILLED.
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1890 from NcctBs'a With ~ arm.
sh,,.s burglar Hi Hlchey had q fepup
=. .a,.rd ~ none In Tho business In
-, a,rnss sho hsd dealings Win the
80 Ia Ne Time desrrihed him ~ . hotof-
-. AL Desperate thief AMI he vas only
,ss,. 1i vbsn ByfBea gave him . ratiaa
= professional criminals ~ America
- Rvyp~ss time. Manhaitat thief
-.a.,s have had plenty of experiences
- m Hickey and they never vent after
VA snbou, having a gun handy
"A. majority N house eneake are Httle
-, than a rat Few In the bunlnsss
IN c,n a aIn even when cornered. and the
.ash,..s noiaa viii send them sourrytnG
- % otrn nil Hickey was 81 . different
- Ne gent after plunder In the night
-. w,sh a mask on his face and ready to
49,, or tai II he a caught or Interrupted.
a. alwnyt carried q gun and q long knife,
"a With both be was quick as . fash. IL
"a PAT Mcuuire's luck yesterday morning
NJ. Hickey didn't get him. The crook
III hs pistol out and was shooting before
wNonirr had much more than hailed him.
n.tsctiyes who know Hickey's record
- IA vas a nephew on his mothers side
ds.-senator and TammAny Loader George
Vsshlnston Plunkitt. author OF Honest
nntt . and 'The Confessions Of q Boot
hlark.. and that he was related on his
ssheTs aide to e1-United States Senator
Edwrd Murphy Of Troy. The former leader
atbs Fifteenth denied this yesterday after
noon, but the barkeeps Of He'll 9 Kitchen
sho had q drinking acquaintance With Bill
Hickey referred TO him as a connection OF
piunhtt's. .
Hickey was born in this city and started
,hisyine when he was 10 years old. Jim
Boyle. then a patrolman in the West Thirty
SEVENTH street station house, remembers
unching Hickey at Ninth avenue and
Tventy-seventh street for a second story
ioh, and Hickey vent heeled, oven as a kid.
Hickey got himself enrolled in the crooks
ball Of fame by a job he did thirteen years
40. On the night of August Is, 1898.
with q couple Of pals, Fat Gross and Henry
Hawk. be entered Mrs. Valentine G. Halls
house at 81 East Twenty-fourth streets
Gross and Hawk watched while Bill Hickey
nnacked the house, cody and systemati-
elly a. was his custom, but one of his pals
made . noise which awakened Mrs. Hall.
90 cav Hickey standing at the foot Of
bar bed with a gun in his hand.
Eicksy turned q dark lantern on her
md mw her move. He walked to the side
Il he bed, put the muzzle Of his gun to
Nm. Halls head and told her he would
hl her unless she gave him her jewelry.
Hs compelled her to give him a pair Of
diamond earrings which she was wearing
diamond and sapphire ring, q diamond
brooch and a watch and chain which she
bad under her pillow He threatened TO
ihoot her II she moved or made q sound.
The sleuths caught Hickey just two
months later and for that job he got ten
ysr In Sing Sing. Recorder Smyth sent
him up on December 8, 1898, after Hickey
hsd pleaded guilty. In the old rogues'
galsry his number raj 2,1S7 and In tho
nsv Bertillon collection Of thieves portraits
Dill Hicksy's number was a.7oi. Within
h past year or two the police hadn't
ben aba to nab Hickey with the goods
a, but they kept q pretty close watch
q him and he was known by most Of the
phtn clothes men Of the West Side and by
u 10 Central Office sleuths. He had been
4 hytns for some time In q hat house at Ole
West Thirty-ninth street
Hickey worked his speciality at Pat
hcCsbe's yesterday morning. He was
tfuund hcCebe's saloon q few days ago,
" eAloon keepers habit TO dump the days
Ncelpts into his trousers pockets at locking
vp.tns, and keep the money there until the
tlocn opened In the morning. McCabe's
pAos u at the northeast corner OF Ninth
sstnus and Thirty-ninth street. MoCabe
N@ Of the extension Of the saloon u almost
q Q level with the windows OF McCabe's
BEDROOM. Pat MoGuire's bedroom win
COWS look out on the extension roof also,
n, house adjoining MoCabe's place.
4 lttle before 9 O'clock yesterday morn
Il Is BILL Hickey and @ pal who got away
S Sscs Hickey key, T To,r killed. sic,. clipped fo"t " " to to
IA I~NseS LAWN dOOI. IllOh0y t0oh oh IA
sssoes and hat and gave them TO his pal.
I'm he opened the door either with a
sse.eton key or q pair OF nippere n went
m,ieaytng his partner on watch.
~ robbed McCabe's sleeping room with
sgt making noise enough to waken q cat.
1hegSAoe and his wife we're In the room and
~ two children were In an adjoining
Tonn, but Hickey 10 his stocking feet
asAned up the place and they never heard
= eound. He took McCabe's trousers
svaeh were slung across a chair back and
McOaoes waistooat which lay on the chair
tnsn he rummaged a few bureau drawers
snd, finding nothing Of value, went out
y 4.oueh a window opening on the one story
SNnuon. In MoCabe's trousers vas $s5
n eesh and his gold watch and chain were
hapocfet OF the waistooat
Why, Bill Hickey left by the window
HAead OF retreating down the stairs lie a
Saitier to crook catchers. Maybe he forgot
y was taking a chance by ~venturing on a
"@mplAinine tin roof.
se1t door the big truckman a in q
Cund sleep, but when Hiokey's unshod
~ struck a patch Of loose tin which set up
rafting and cracking, MCGUIRE woke up
. ,Iasahtly and felt for his gun. His wife
7 uu1sned him by the arm.
4. Is nothing but a cat on the roof, Pat
Lac still, Annie" said big Pat, athere
n ~, never a cat made a roof groan like
81. !. Maybe it's the damned thief that
egs my pants a month ago.
,hi st0as n the early part OF April, a sneak
SId BOT into MCGUIRE 8 room and robbed
SI%ne sioo which was in q pocketbook In the
nv, pocket. OF his Sunday trousers. Since
40 I'M Mcclure has been sleeping with
- ~ we open, hoping the proWler would