GEORGE LOCKWOOD

Alias: CULLY LOCKWOOD

Specialties: BURGLAR, SNEAK

No: 75 Last Displayed: 5/24/2021

Description:

Forty-four years old in 1886. Born in New York. Medium build. Married, Plumber. Height, 5 feet 7 1/2 inches. Weight, 153 pounds. Reddish brown hair. brown eyes, sandy complexion; generally wears a sandy mustache. Has pistol-shot wound on his arm.

Record:

GEORGE LOCKWOOD, or "CULLY," the alias he is best known by, is a professional safe-burglar, and a son of respectable parents who reside in New York City. His father, a boss plumber, learned Cully his trade. When but a boy he became entangled with a gang of thieves who frequented Mrs. Brunker's basement, on the corner of Wooster and Houston Streets, New York City, and was arrested for robbing a pawnbroker in Amity Street, and again in the Eighth Ward, in November, 1873, for having a set of burglars' tools in his possession, one hundred and eight pieces in all. Later on he was arrested on suspicion of robbing the premises of Brougham & McGee, gold pen and pencil manufacturers, Nos. 79 and 81 William Street. He was also arrested for attempting to assassinate Charles Brockway (14), the forger, in West Houston Street. Lockwood, as Brockway was passing by, jumped out of the hallway of his wife's (Mrs. Brunker's) residence, and shot Brockway in the back, Brockway turned and shot him through the arm. He was not prosecuted, as Brockway refused to make a complaint. He was arrested in New York City in January, 1871, in company of Pete Burns, alias McLaughlin, for an attempt at burglary and carrying burglars' tools. Judgment. was suspended in this case. He was arrested again in January, 1874, with Pete Burns, in a thieves' resort that had been raided by the police. They were both arraigned on the old suspended indictment on January 14, 1874, and Burns pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years and six months in State prison. Lockwood was remanded until January 21, when he also pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree, and was sentenced to two. years and six months in State prison at Sing Sing, under the name of George Jackson. He was arrested in the Eighth Ward, New York City, on December 1, 1878,. on suspicion of a burglary, but was discharged. Next he was arrested in New York City on January 8, 1880, with Charley Woods,. alias Fowler, on suspicion of robbing Station F, New York Post-office, but was discharged by Justice Bixby for lack of evidence. Arrested again in New York City on January 1, 1880, and tried in the Court of Special Sessions, on June i 5, 1880, for assaulting a man named J ames Casey, of New Jersey, whom he mistook for an officer who had arrested him some time before for burglary. He succeeded in keeping Casey out of court on the day of his trial, and the court, being in ignorance of his character, discharged him. He was afterwards arrested in New York City with Jim Elliott, the prize-fighter (now dead), on June 24, 1880, secreted in the cellar of Cornelius Clark's saloon, at No. 86 Henry Street. They had bored through the floor with the view of robbing a safe containing about $500 in money, and some jewelry that was in the store. A full set of burglars' tools was found with them. In this case they pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to two years each in State prison, on June 30, 1880. by Judge Cowing. Lockwood was arrested again in New York City on October 14, 1884. in company of Frank Russell, alias Little Frank, another sneak and burglar, for the larceny of three watches from the store of Conrad Baumgarth, No. 16 Sixth Avenue, in july, 1884. "Cully" was committed for trial in $1,000 bail. by Judge Patterson, but discharged in the Court of General Sessions, by Judge Cowing, on November 7. 1884. He was arrested again in Albany. N. Y., in company of Andrew McAIlier, for attempt. at burglary. They were sentenced to eighteen months in the Albany Penitentiary, on June 26, 1885, by John C. Nott, County Judge, and his sentence wiil expire on September 25, 1886. Lockwood ten years ago was considered a very skillful and nervy burglar. It is claimed that he is a first-class mechanic and manufactured all his tools. He and Johnny Coady generally use the wood screw for forcing in an outside door. A hole is bored with an auger in the jamb of the door, exactly behind the nosing of the lock, after which a wood screw is inserted into the hole, and with the aid of a good bitstock or brace, the nosing of the lock is easily and quietly forced off. Of late he has. become somewhat dissipated, and is not rated now as a first-class criminal. His picture is a good one, taken in November, 1877.