CHARLES McLAUGHLIN

Alias: , JOHNSON, LAMBERT, McLAIN, McLAUGHLIN, SEAMAN

Specialties: HOTEL THIEF

No: 59 Last Displayed: 8/14/2015

Description:

Fifty years old in 1886. Stands his age well. Born in Troy, N. Y. Is a saddler by trade. Well built. Height, 5 feet 7 1/2 inches Weight, 160 pounds. Brown hair. Wears full, dark, sandy whiskers and mustache, turning gray. He has quite a respectable appearance, and is a good talker.

Record:

McLAUGHLIN is one of the cleverest hotel workers in the country, and is said to be the son of a planter in Louisiana. He was a book-keeper, but lost everything during our civil war and became a hotel thief. On April 3, 1875, he robbed a room in the Westminster Hotel in New York City of a watch and chain and some diamonds and money. As he was leaving the hotel with his booty, his victim came downstairs and reported his loss to the clerk, who followed McLaughlin and had him arrested, and found the property upon his person. McLaughlin was tried, convicted, and sentenced to three years in Sing Sing prison for this robbery, It is said that the day he was sentenced his father was shot and killed by negroes in Grant Parish, La. He was convicted and sent to prison in Quebec, Canada, for a hotel robbery in January, 1881. He was arrested again in New York City on June 10,1884. for entering three rooms in the Rossmore Hotel. A full set of hotel-workers' tools was found on his person at the time of his arrest. He had robbed two rooms in this house some time before and secured $400 in money and two watches. In this case McLaughlin pleaded guilty to burglary, and was sentenced, under the name of Chas. J. Lambert, to two years in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, in the Court of General Sessions in New York City, on June 25, 1884, by Judge Gildersleeve. His sentence expired February 24, 1886.McLaughlin's picture is a fair one, taken in 1875. He looks much older now.