GEORGE W GAMPHOR

Alias: JAMES F ROGERS

Specialties: HOTEL THIEF

No: 49 Last Displayed: 5/3/2023

Description:

Thirty-eight years old in 1886. Born in Philadelphia. Medium build.. Clerk. Not married. Height, 5 feet 7 inches. Weight, about 148 pounds. Blonde hair, dark gray eyes, sandy complexion and mustache.

Record:

GAMPHOR was arrested in New York City on February 1, 1876, for the larceny of a gold watch and chain, valued at $100, from one E. W. Worth, of Bennington, Vt., at one of the hotels on Cortlandt Street. He was convicted, and sentenced to two years. and six months in State prison in the Court of General Sessions, on December 20,1880, by Recorder Smyth. He is a clever hotel thief, and has traveled all over this country, robbing hotels and boarding-houses, and is regarded as a first-class operator. He is well known in a number of large cities. Gamphor's picture was taken in 1876.