ALBERT CROPSEY

Alias: WILLIAMS

Specialties: HOTEL THIEF

No: 54 Last Displayed: 9/27/2021

Description:

Thirty-three years old in 1886. Medium build. Born in United States. Light complexion. Not married. Height, 5 feet 8 inches. Weight, 135 pounds. Light hair and mustache when worn. Has letters" A. C." in India ink on right fore-arm; also letters" A. C." and" A.," bracelet, anchor and dots on left hand.

Record:

CROPSEY is a very clever hotel and boarding-house thief, and is a man well worth knowing. He was arrested in New York City on May 10, 1878, for robbing a safe in Stanwix Hall, a hotel in Albany, N. Y., and delivered to the Albany police authorities. He was convicted there and sentenced to five years in the Albany, N. Y., Penitentiary on June 29, 1878, by Judge Van Alstyne. He was arrested again in New York City on November 4, 1883, and sent to Passaic, N. J., where he was charged with stealing $300 worth of silverware from a Mr. Lara Smith. In this case he was tried, but the jury failed to convict him and he was discharged. He is known in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and several other cities in the United States. Cropsey's picture was taken in 1878.