CHARLES WILSON

Alias: CHARLES WILLIS, LITTLE PAUL

Specialties: SHOPLIFTER, SNEAK

No: 29 Last Displayed: 2/7/2023

Description:

Thirty-three years old in 1886. Stout build. Born in England. Not married. Height, 5 feet 2 1/2 inches. Weight 140 pounds. Brown hair, gray eyes, round. full face, light complexion. Whiskers, when grown, are a little sandy.

Record:

"LITTLE PAUL" is quite a clever sneak and shoplifter. He was sent to State prison in New York City in January, 1878, and again on June 18, 1883, for four years, for larceny in the second degree, by Recorder Smyth. On November 14, 1883, in company of Frank Harrison, alias Frank Reilly (79), he escaped from the mess-room at Sing Sing prison early in the morning, by sawing off the iron bars of a window and crawling into the yard; they then went to the west end of the prison wall, which projects over the Hudson River docks, and there, by means of a convenient float, reached the shore outside the prison wall, where they left their prison clothes and put on civilian's attire, that had been "planted" there for them some time before. Paul was re-arrested in New Orleans, La., on January 26, 1884, and returned to Sing Sing prison in February of that year. His full time will expire on June 17, 1887. His picture is a good one, taken in 1878.