MICHAEL QUINN

Alias: IRVING, SHANG QUINN

Specialties: BURGLAR

No: 82 Last Displayed: 12/13/2021

Description:

Forty-five years old in 1886. Medium build. Born in Ireland. Single. Blacksmith. Height, 6 feet 1 inch. Weight, about 180 pounds. Black hair, gray eyes, dark complexion. Wears black mustache and side-whiskers, Has a star in India ink on left arm.

Record:

"SHANG" QUINN is an old and expert burglar and pickpocket, and is known in most all the principal cities of the United States, and has served considerable time in State prisons. He is considered to be a very clever safe burglar. He pleaded guilty in the Court of General Sessions. New York City, on August 23. 1880, to larceny of $85 from one Edward Stroyck, of No. 21 Tenth Avenue, and was remanded to August 23 1880, when he was sentenced to two years and six months in Sing Sing prison, under the name of William Parker, by Judge Cowing. He had previously served two years in the same institution for a larceny. Quinn's picture is a good one, taken in November, 1875.