JAMES CASEY

Alias: BIG JIM CASEY

Specialties: BANCO, PICKPOCKET

No: 91 Last Displayed: 6/27/2022

Description:

Forty-eight years old in 1886. Born in United States. Single. No trade. Stout build. Height, 5 feet 8 inches. Weight, 200 pounds. Black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion; generally wears a full black beard, turning gray.

Record:

BIG JIM CASEY is a well known Bowery (New York) pickpocket and "stall" for pickpockets. He was formerly an associate of Poodle Murphy (134), Pretty Jimmie (143), Big Dick Morris (141), and all the first-class men. Of late years he cannot be relied on, and the clever ones give him the go-by, as he is fond of drink. Lately he has turned his hand to banco business, and generally handles the bag of cloth samples. He is now working with Pete Lake (93) and Ed Parmelee, two notorious banco steerers. Casey was arrested at Clifton, Canada, with a gang of American pickpockets, during the Marquis of Lome's celebration, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. He has served time in Sing Sing prison, and in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, and is well known in all the Eastern cities as Big Jim Casey. He was arrested again in New York City on January 26, 1884, in company of Poodle Murphy (134), Tom Burns, alias Combo (148), Joe Gorman (146), and Nigger Baker (195), charged with sneaking a package of Elevated Railroad tickets, valued at $75, from a safe in the station at Houston Street and the Bowery, New York. For this offense he was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, on February 26, 1884. (See record of No. 134.) His picture is a fair one.