FRANK AUBURN

Alias: JOHN F AUSTIN

Specialties: BOARDING-HOUSE SNEAK

No: 46 Last Displayed: 10/4/2023

Description:

Twenty-six years old in 1886. Born in United States. Medium build. Single. Height, 5 feet 5 inches. Weight, 120 pounds. Brown hair, gray eyes, dark complexion. No trade. Has busts of boy and girl, and two hearts with words "You and me" on them, in India ink. on right fore-arm.

Record:

AUBURN is quite a clever boarding-house thief, but does not confine himself to that work entirely. He is well known in New York and Boston. He was arrested in New York City on November 1, 1883, for petty larceny from a boarding-house, and convicted and sentenced to five days in the Tombs prison on November 28, 1883, by Judge Gildersleeve, in the Court of General Sessions. His light sentence was the result of the intercession of some good people, and on account of its being his first appearance in court. He was arrested again in Boston, Mass., on April 28, 1884, in company of Joseph W. Harris, alias Wm. J. Johnson, for picking pockets in the churches of that city. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to four years in Concord prison on May 16, 1884. His time will expire in November, 1887. Auburn's picture is a good one, taken in 1884.