JOSEPH OTTERBURG

Alias: JOE STEARN, OATSEY

Specialties: BURGLAR, HOUSE SNEAK

No: 69 Last Displayed: 6/14/2023

Description:

Twenty-eigh t years old in 1886. Born in New York City. Single. No trade. Medium build. Height, 5 feet 5 1/4 inches. Weight, 125 pounds. Brown hair, blue eyes, light complexion. Generally wears a light-brown mustache.

Record:

JOE OTTERBURG is a very clever house sneak, that being his principal business. He will stand watching when you go to arrest him, as he generally uses a pistol. He is an associate of Hoggie Real (67), and is well known in several Eastern States. He was arrested in New York City and sentenced to four years in State prison on October 6, l870, under the name of James Oats, by Recorder Hackett, for a sneak robbery. Otterburg was convicted for having burglars' tools in his possession at White Plains, N. Y., on September 19, 1875, and was discharged from the penitentiary at Albany on July IS, 1877, after serving two years there, under the name of Joseph Osborne. He was arraigned for trial in the Kings County Court of Brooklyn, N. Y., on May 11, 1878, for robbing the residence of Mrs. Adolphus Nathan, of No. 117 Adelphi Street, that city, on January 25, 1875, of $450 worth of property. In this case he was tried and acquitted on May 31, 1878. Christopher Spencer, who was in this robbery with Otterburg, was afterwards sentenced to the Albany (N. Y.) Penitentiary for five years for breaking jail and assaulting his keeper at White Plains jail, Westchester County, N. Y. Otterburg was arrested again in New York City, and sentenced to four years in State prison by Judge Gildersleeve, on April 24, 1883, for robbing a house in Harlem in company of Joseph Real (67). His time expired on April 23, 1886. His picture is a good one, notwithstanding his eyes are closed, taken in April, 1883.