JOHN TRACY

Alias: BIG TRACY, REILLY

Specialties: BURGLAR, PICKPOCKET, SECOND-STORY MAN

No: 28 Last Displayed: 10/25/2023

Description:

Thirty-seven years old in 1886. Born in United States. Plumber by trade. Single. Stout build. Height, 6 feet 1 1/2 inches. Weight. 180 pounds. Dark brown hair, light complexion. Has a cross in India ink on right fore-arm. Generally wears a dark brown beard and mustache. Scar on back of hand.

Record:

"BIG" TRACY does considerable "second-story" or house work, and is well known in New York, Chicago, and all the large cities. He has served considerable time in Eastern prisons-one term of five years from Troy, N. Y., for highway robbery, in 1878. (See Addenda.) He was arrested again in the spring of 1884, in company of Billy Ogle (13), for robbing a residence on Jersey City Heights, N. J., of diamonds and jewelry valued at $1,500. They were both tried and convicted on June 26, 1884; their counsel obtained a new trial for them, and they were discharged in July, 1884. Tracy and Ogle went West, and in the fall of 1885 Ogle was arrested in Tennessee for "house work," and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. He shortly after escaped from a gang while working on the railroad. Tracy escaped arrest, and is now at large in the West. His picture is a good one, taken in 1877. See records of Nos. (13) and (110)