WILLIAM OGLE

Alias: , BILLY OGLE, FRANK SOMERS

Specialties: BURGLAR, FORGER

No: 13 Last Displayed: 5/23/2022

Description:

Thirty-two years old in 1886. Born in New York. Medium build. Married. Height. 5 feet 7 1/2 inches. Weight, 148 pounds. Brown hair, brown eyes, fair complexion. Wears sandy mustache and sometimes side whiskers.

Record:

BILLY OGLE is a good general thief. He fell in with Charles Vanderpool, alias Brockway. some years ago, and worked with him up to the Providence job in August, 1880. He does not confine himself to any particular kind of work. He is a handy burglar, good sneak, and first-class second-story man. Ogle was arrested in Chicago with Charles Vanderpool, alias Brockway, in 1879, for forgery on the First National Bank of that city. Brockway was bailed in $10,000, in consequence of some information he gave to the authorities, and the case never was tried. Ogle was also finally discharged. He was arrested shortly after, in 1879. in Orange, N. J., for an attempt at burglary, and on a second trial he luckily escaped with six months'imprisonment. Ogle was again arrested in New York City and convicted for uttering a forged check for $2,490, drawn on the Phcenix Bank of New York, purported to be signed by Purss & Young, brokers, of Wall Street, New York City. He was sentenced to five years in State prison by Judge Cowing, on June 14, 1880. His counsel appealed the case, and Judge Donohue, of the Supreme Court, granted him a new trial, and he was released on $2,500 bail in July. 1880. Andy Gilligan and Charles Farren, alias the "Big Duke," were also arrested in connection with this forgery. While out on bail in this case, Ogle was again arrested in Providence, R. 1., on August 16, 1880, with Charles O. Brockway and Joe Cook, alias Havill, a Chicago sneak, in an attempt to pass two checks, one on the Fourth National Bank for $1,327, and the other. of $1,264, on the old National Bank of that city. He was convicted for this offense, and sentenced to three years in State prison on October 2, 1880, under the name of Frank Somers. His time expired in August, 1883. He was arrested again in the spring of 1884 for a "second-story job," with John Tracy, alias Big Tracy. They robbed the residence of John W. Pangborn, on Belmont Avenue, Jersey City Heights, of diamonds and jewelry valued at $1,500. He was convicted for this offense on June 26, 1884. His counsel obtained a new trial for him in July, 1884, upon which he was tried and acquitted. Big Tracy was also discharged, and they both went West. In the fall of 1885 Ogle was arrested in Tennessee, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for house work. He shortly afterwards made his escape from a gang while working out on a railroad, and is now at large. Ogle's picture is a good one, taken in 1880.