ANDREW McGUIRE

Alias: "FAIRY" McGUIRE, ANDREW CRAIG

Specialties: BURGLAR

No: 78 Last Displayed: 3/22/2021

Description:

Forty-six years old In 1886. . Born in United States. Slim build. Married.Cigar-maker. Height, 5 feet 7}i inches. Weight, 120 pounds. Brown hair, blue eyes. fair complexion, bald head. Generally wears a full reddish-brown beard and mustache.RECORJ)." FAIRY" MCGUIRE is probably one of the most daring and desperate thieves in America, and is well known in almost all the large cities. He served a fifteen years' sentence in Bangor, Maine, for highway robbery; also a term in Clinton prison, New York State, for burglary.He was arrested in New York City on March 6, 1881, in front of No. 53 Nassau Street, occupied by L. Durr & Bro., assayers and refiners of gold and silver. An officer discovered the burglars at work in the store, and while looking in the window _ was approached by :'vlcGuire, who commenced talking loudly, thereby giving the menon the inside a chance to escape. McGuire was arrested, and upon the premises being examined it was found that three safes were partly torn open; they also founda full set of burglars' tools. As no connection could be made with McGuire and the people on the inside, he had to be discharged.He was arrested again in New York City on March 17, 1881, and delivered to the Brooklyn police' authorities, charged with robbing Miss Elizabeth Roberts, of Second Place, in that city. Four men entered the basement door of the house, bound the servant and tied her to a chair; then went upstairs, bound and gagged Miss Roberts, and took $3,000 in Cairo City Water bonds, numbered respectively 52, 71 and 72, also about $500 worth of jewelry. Although there was no doubt that McGuire was one of the four men engaged in this robbery, he was discharged, as the parties could not identify him, on account of being disguised on the day of the robbery -,He was arrested again in Newark, N. J., on July 5, 1881, charged with" blowing" open the safe in James Traphagen's jewelry store on Broad Street, that city. When the officers pursued McGuire, he turned and fired several shots at them. A party giving the name of George Williams, alias Dempsey, was arrested also. McGuire was, tried and convicted on three indictments on October 18, 1881, one for burglary and two f01" felonious assault. He was sentenced to ten years in Trenton prison on each indictment, making thirty years in all, on October 19, 188 I.Williams was' sentenced to two years for burglary the same day. McGuire's picture is an excellent one, taken in March, 1881.79FRANK REILLY, alias HARRISON, alias DONOVAN, alias STUARTPICKPOCKET AND BURGLAR.DESCRIPTION.Thirty-three years old in. 1886. Born in New York. Medium build, No trade.Married. Height, 5 feet 6 inches. Weight, 132 pounds. Light-brown hair. brown eyes, thin face, ruddy complexion. Small, light-colored mustache.

Record:

REILLY has been known under a great many names. He is now thirty-three years old, and was only seventeen when he made the acquaintance of the police. That was in 1870, when he was arrested in Morrisania, N. Y., for a burglary at White Plains. While in the jail at White Plains awaiting trial, he noticed that the inner door of the prison was open at dinner-time and the outer door was shut, while at other times the outer door was open and the inner door closed. By the simple expedient of hiding himself between the two doors at dinner-time he found himself a free man. The following year he was recaptured, and sentenced to Sing Sing prison for five years. Two constables started to drive with him to the prison, and when about half-way Reilly suddenly slipped the handcuffs off, darted out of the coach, and disappeared. F or two -days the woods were searched in the vicinity by the constables and country folk, and then Reilly was found hidden in a swi, "p, half starved. After serving two years at Sing Sing he was transferred to Clintor �. .rison, from which he almost succeeded in escaping, having got out of his cell and was in the act of breaking open the door to the roof when discovered. He had torn his bedclothes into strips and braided them into a rope, wi th which to let himself down.In the latter part of 1874 his term expired, he having been granted commutation for good behavior, and he returned to New York, where he speedily became embroiled with the police. In that same year (1874) he was arrested for trying to rescue two burglars from the police, and was sent to Blackwell's Island penitentiary for one year . for disorderly conduct. He stayed there exactly two hours, walking calmly out past the keepers without being questioned by anyone, and coming back to the city on the same boat which took him to the Island.The next year (1875) he broke out of the Yorkville prison, New York City, where he was confined for stabbing a United States deputy marshal, by spreading the bars of his cell with a lever made out of a joist. He went to Philadelphia, where, in February, 1876, he and some of his companions were caught breaking into a warehouse. One of the burglars fired at a policeman, wounding him. The other policemen returned the fire, and Reilly received four bullets in his body.After spending five months in a hospital he spent two years in the Eastern Penitentiary, at Philadelphia. On his release he returned to New York, and between 1878 and 1882 he served two terms for burglary in Sing Sing prison. It was after being released from Sing Sing the second time that he made a desperate attempt to break out of the Tombs prison, in New York, where he was awaiting trial for assault. His cell was on the eastern side of the second tier. He had a common pocket-knife, and a broken glazier's knife, which served as a chisel. With these tools he dug through the wall, under a drain-pipe in his cell, and one night was discovered by a keeper in the prison yard. He was taken to a new cell, and when he was sentenced to Blackwell's Island the warden breathed a sigh of relief.After his release from the penitentiary he was arrested again in New York City. and sentenced to S"g Sing State prison on September 25, 1883, for five years, for robbing a man in Bleecker Street of $140. He escaped from the mess-room there on November 14. 1883, with Charles Wilson. alias" Little Paul" (29), by saw.iog the bars of a window opening into the yard, and after getting out of prison they walked to New York.Scarcely three weeks had elapsed when Reilly again got into trouble in New York City. He and some companions resisted an officer who tried to arrest them for disorderly conduct. In the row Reilly got clubbed, and was sent as a prisoner to the Presbyterian Hospital, where an officer was sent to watch him. The officer fell asleep. and Reilly, whose wounds had been bandaged, got up, stole the orderly's clothes from under his pillow, and made his way to a second-story window, from which he dropped to the ground. He could find no shoes in the hospital, and had to walk three miles in his bare feet before reaching the house of a friend.He was arrested again in New York City for beating a woman named Clara Devine, on New-year's day (1884), and committed for ten days, for disorderly conduct, by Justice White, in Jefferson Market Police Court. Shortly after his committal he was identified by a detective sergeant, and taken back to Sing Sing prison on January 5, 1884, to serve out his runaway time. His sentence will expire, if he does not receive any commutation, on September 24, 1888. Should he receive his commutation, it will expire on April 24, 1887.Reilly's picture is a very good one. It was taken in November, 1878.