WILLIAM BEATTY

Alias: BAKER, BILLY BURKE

Specialties: BURGLAR, SNEAK

No: 85 Last Displayed: 2/21/2024

Description:

Forty-six years old in 1886. Born in United States. Medium build. Married. Barkeeper. Height, 5 feet 8 inches. Weight, 148 pounds. Black hair, gray eyes, dark complexion. Has letters "W. S." and coat of arms in India ink on left fore-arm. Generally wears a brown mustache.

Record:

BEATTY was arrested in New York City and sentenced to three years and six months in Sing Sing prison, on April 8, 1875, for burglary, under the name of William Brown. He was arrested in company of Andy Hess, another New York burglar, who gave the name of Alfred Brown, for a silk burglary in the Eighth Ward, New York City. He was arrested again in New York City on May 18, 1878, for the larceny of $57 from a poor woman named Brady, who lived at No. 214 East Thirty-eighth Street, New York. He was committed for trial by Judge Wandell, but discharged by the District Attorney on a promise to return some stolen property to one Mr. St. John, which he never did. He is a mean thief, and is called by other thieves a "squealer." He is well known in New York, Boston and Albany, and other Eastern cities. His picture is a good one, taken in February, 1878.