WILLIAM PEASE

Alias: BILLY PEASE, STEWART

Specialties: BOARDING-HOUSE THIEF, HOTEL

No: 52 Last Displayed: 12/4/2015

Description:

Forty-five years old in 1886. Born in United States. Slim build. A painter and sailmaker by trade. Married. Dark complexion, dark blue eyes. Height, 5 feet 5 inches. Weight, about 135 pounds. Dark brown hair, sharp face; has a scar near the crown of head. Has a cross and the letters "C. I." in India ink on right arm; also dots on left arm and near left thumb.

Record:

BILLY PEASE is an old and very expert burglar and boarding-house thief, and is well known in the principal Eastern cities. He was arrested in New York City on June 8, 1876, for having burglars' tools in his possession, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island. He was shortly after discharged, and robbed a boarding-house at No. 22 Irving Place, with one George Harrison. He was arrested again on September 16, 1877, by the same officer, in New York City, for an attempt at burglary at No. 12 Avenue A, for which he pleaded guilty. and was sentenced to two years and six months in State prison on September 27, 1877, by Judge Gildersleeve, in the Court of General Sessions. New York City. Nothing further that is authentic appears upon the record to date. Pease's picture is a very good one, taken in 1877.