PHILLIP PHEARSON

Alias: PECK, PHILLY PEARSON

Specialties: BANK SNEAK

No: 5 Last Displayed: 3/28/2022

Description:

Fifty-four years old in 1886. Height, 5 feet 7 inches. Weight, 135 pounds. Hair mixed gray. Eyes, blue. Complexion, sallow. Ink marks: Eagle wreath, American flag, square and compass, an Odd Fellow's link, also "J. Peck," with face of woman underneath the name, all the above on left fore-arm; star and bracelet on left wrist; star between thumb and forefinger of left hand; figure of woman on right fore-arm; above the elbow is a heart, with "J. P." in it; shield and bracelet with letters "W. D." on same arm.

Record:

PHEARSON, or PECK (which is his right name), is one of the oldest and smartest sneak thieves in this country. He has obtained a good deal of money in his time, for which he has done considerable service in State prisons. He comes from a respectable Quaker family of Philadelphia. Phearson, Chas. Everhardt, alias Marsh Market Jake (38), and George Williams. alias Woodward (194.) were arrested in Montreal, Canada, in 1876, for sneaking a package containing $800 in money from a safe in that city. Williams gave bail and jumped it, and Phearson and Everhardt stood trial, and were sentenced to three years and six months in prison. On June 16, 1879, shortly after his release in Canada, he was arrested in New York City for the larceny of a $1,000 4-per-cent bond from a clerk of Kountze Brothers, bankers, in the general Post-office building. To this offense he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three years and six months in State prison, on June 26, 1879, under the name of George W. Clark. Phearson was again arrested in New York City in October, 1885, for the larceny of $85, on the till-tapping game. He claimed to be a health officer, and while he had the proprietor of the store in the yard, his accomplice carried away the drawer. For this offense he was tried, convicted. and sentenced to five years in State prison by Judge Cowing on November 5, 1885. under the name of Daniel Kennedy. Phearson's picture is an excellent one, taken in 1885.