FRANK BUCK

Alias: "BUCK" TAYLOR, BucK WILSON, GEORGE BIDDLE

Specialties: BANK SNEAK

No: 27 Last Displayed: 7/12/2023

Description:

Forty-four years old in 1886. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. Married. Engineer. Stout build. Height, 5 feet 5 inches. Weight, 150 pounds. Light hair, gray eyes. light complexion. Three India ink dots on left hand, one on right hand. Bald on front of head. Generally wears a light-colored mustache.

Record:

"BUCK" is a very clever bank sneak. He has been working with Horace Hovan, alias Little Horace (25), since 1881. He has also worked with Langdon W. Moore, alias Charley Adams (22), Johnny Price and other notorious bank sneaks . "Buck" was arrested in June, 1881, at Philadelphia, Pa., with Horace Hovan (25), for the larceny of $10,950 in securities from a broker's office in that city. He was convicted of burglary and sentenced to three years in the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia with Hovan, on July 2, 1881. His time dated back to June 6, 1881. Hovan was pardoned. Buck served his time, and afterwards joined Hovan in Washington, D. C, in May, 1884. They both traveled around the country and were arrested coming out of a bank in Boston on June 18, 1884, and their pictures taken for the Rogues' Gallery. Buck and Hovan went to Europe in the spring of 1885, and Buck returned alone the same fall. Horace having been arrested there and sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the larceny of a package of money from a bank safe. Buck's picture is an excellent one, taken in 1884.