JOSEPH COOK

Alias: GEO HAVILL, HARRY THORN

Specialties: FORGER, SNEAK

No: 15 Last Displayed: 9/11/2015

Description:

Thirty-nine years old in 1886. Born in Canada. Slim build. Height, 5 feel 8 inches. Weight, 145 pounds. Light hair, blue eyes, light complexion.

Record:

"COOK," or HAVILL, which is his right name, is a Chicago sneak thief. He came East with Brockway in 1869. Brockway used him in a few transactions in New York, and afterwards in Providence, R. I., where he was arrested with Brockway and Billy Ogle on August 16, 1880, for attempting to pass two forged checks, one on the Fourth National Bank and another on the old National Bank of that city. Havill was convicted under the name of Joseph Cook for this offense, and was sentenced to four years in State prison at Providence, R. I., on October 2, 1880. His time expired March 14. 1884. Havill was arrested near Elmira, N. Y., on February 14, 1885, in company with John Love (68), Charles Lowery, Frank McCrann and Mike Blake. for robbing the Osceola Bank of Pennsylvania, and sentenced to nine years and nine months in State prison on April 9, 1885, under the name of Harry Thorn. His picture is a good one, taken in 1880.