WILLIAM FALE

Alias: BROOKS

Specialties: HOTEL THIEF, SLEEPING-CAR WORKER

No: 43 Last Displayed: 4/11/2022

Description:

Fifty-five years old in 1886. Medium build. Height. 5 feet 7 1/4 inches. Weight, 150 pounds. Dark.brown hair, gray eyes, dark complexion. Wears a brown mustache. A German. Baker by trade.

Record:

FALE, or BROOKS, is an old hotel and sleeping-car worker, and is pretty well known in the principal Eastern and Southern cities, where he has been arrested and convicted for similar offenses. He was arrested at the Grand Central Railroad depot, in New York City, on December 23, 1874, for the larceny of a gold watch and chain from a sleeping-car. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced, in the Court of General Sessions, to four years in State prison on January 18, 1875. His manner of working was to meet the in-coming trains in the morning by walking up the railroad yard, jump on them, and rob the berths, while the persons who occupied them were washing and getting ready to leave. Fale's picture is a fair one, taken in 1874.