WILLIAM MORGAN

Alias: BILLY MORGAN, WILLIAMS

Specialties: BURGLAR, SNEAK, TILL-TAPPER

No: 72 Last Displayed: 12/27/2021

Description:

Thirty-three years old in 1886. Born in New York. Medium build. Single.No trade. Height,s feet 8 inches. Weight, about 142 pounds. Brown hair, blue eyes, florid complexion. Has" W. B. Morgan" in India ink on his right arm; one dot of ink on left hand.

Record:

BILLY MORGAN is considered one of the smartest till-tappers and shoplifters in the business. He has confined himself to till-tapping and work of that descripi..,n of late years, and has been arrested in several of the principal cities in America, and is well known in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. He has worked with the best people in this line, and thoroughly understands his business.He was arrested in Philadelphia, Pa., on April 16, 1880, with" Marsh Market j ake " (38), Little AI. Wilson, and George Williams (194), for the larceny of $2,200 in bank bills from one Henry Ruddy of that city. The whole party were convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia on April 26, 1880. Since his release he has been traveling through the country working almost every kind of schemes to get money. He has been arrested in New York several times. An account of all his arrests would fill many pages ..His picture is a very good one, taken while under arrest, in August, 1882.