EDWARD LYMAN

Alias: ACKERSON, NED LYMAN

Specialties: CONFIDENCE MAN, PICKPOCKET, SNEAK

No: 102 Last Displayed: 1/31/2022

Description:

Forty-two years old in 1886. Born in Boston, Mass. Stout build. Height. 5 feet 8 1/2 inches. Weight, 180 pounds. Light hair, blue eyes, light complexion, full face. Married. Painter by trade. Has "E. L." in India ink on his arm; scars on three fingers of right hand and on under lip.

Record:

NED LYMAN is probably one of the cleverest general thieves In America, and is well known in all the principal cities East and West, especially in Boston, where he makes his home. Lyman, under the name of George Ackerson, was convicted in the Superior Court of Boston, Mass., on January 17, 1863, for larceny from the person, and sentenced to the House of Correction for four months. Discharged May 15, 1863. He was convicted again in the same court on May 19, 1864, for larceny from the person, and sentenced to the House of Correction for six months. He was discharged September 14, 1864. Again convicted in the same court on May 2S. 1868, for assault and battery with a knife, and sentenced for two years in the House of Correction. Discharged December 23. 1870. There is evidently some mistake in the date of Lyman's discharge from the House of Correction in Boston, as the record shows that he was arrested in New York City on July 22, 1870, for till-tapping, and committed in $1,500 bail by Judge Cox. The records also show that he was arrested and convicted of larceny from the person in Philadelphia, Pa., and sentenced to four years in the Eastern Penitentiary on March 27, 1880. Again, in the Superior Court of Boston, Mass, April 17, 1884, he was convicted of an attempt to commit larceny from the person, and sentenced to the House of Correction for twelve months. Discharged March 12, 1885. This last time lie gave the name of George Ackerson. Lyman was arrested in Boston again in June, 1885, for larceny from the person, and gave bail, which was defaulted. In August, 1885, he was arrested in Providence, R. I., for larceny from the person, and was sentenced to one year in prison there. When his time expires, he will be taken back to Boston and tried on the complaint he ran away from. Lyman's picture is an excellent one, taken in Boston in 1884.