AUGUSTUS RAYMOND

Alias: ARTHUR L BARRY, GUS RAYMOND

Specialties: SNEAK

No: 26 Last Displayed: 5/25/2020

Description:

Thirty-three years old in 1886. Medium build. Born in United States. Single.Height,5 feet 3 1/2 inches. Weight, 155 pounds. Black hair, turning gray; dark brown eyes, dark complexion, round full face. Dresses well, and is a very gentlemanly person.

Record:

RAYMOND is a clever bank sneak, and a good general thief. He has plenty of nerve and works with the best people only. He is known in several of the large cities of the United States and in Canada. Arrested April 2, 1878, in New York City, for larceny of a trunk of jewelry. The facts are, that on May 12, 1877, the firm of Alling Brothers & Co., of Worcester, Mass., shipped by rail a trunk containing $9,000 worth of jewelry from Worcester to Hartford, Conn., to their agent. On the road Raymond slipped into the baggage car and changed the checks on the trunk. On the arrival of the train at Hartford it was discovered that the trunk had been stolen. It was traced from Hartford, Conn., to a New York hotel, and from there to Baltimore, Md., where it was found empty. Thomas Leary, alias Kid Leary (6), was with Raymond and was the party that received the trunk at the hotel in New York, for which he was sentenced to five years in State prison, in New York City. Raymond was taken to Worcester, Mass., on April 18, 1878, and sentenced to five years in State prison there, on October 2, 1878, by Judge Aldrich. He has been arrested in several cities in the United States since his release-the last time was on February 16, 1886, in New York City, with Joe Elliott, alias Reilly (16), and George Wilkes, charged with forgery in Rochester, N. Y. Raymond was discharged and Elliott and Wilkes were taken to Rochester for trial. Raymond was arrested again in Philadelphia, Pa., on May 8, 1886, on suspicion of forging a check on the Third National Bank of Philadelphia, which he gave to a boy, who attempted to get the money at the bank. Raymond was not arrested until two days after, when the boy could not be found and he was discharged. Raymond's picture is an excellent one, taken in 1878.