FRANK WOODS

Alias: McKENNA

Specialties: BURGLAR, PICKPOCKET, SECOND-STORY MAN

No: 103 Last Displayed: 4/26/2023

Description:

Thirty-five years old in 1886. Born in New York City. Single. No trade. Medium build. Height, 5 feet 6 inches. Weight, 135 pounds. Black hair, gray eyes, fair complexion. Has scar on left hand, near thumb joint. Has figures "25" in India Ink on outside of left fore-arm.

Record:

WOODS is perhaps one of the smartest house thieves there is in this country. He confines himself to second-story work generally, and usually works wealthy manufacturing towns and summer resorts. He was arrested in New York City on July 15,1874, under the name of Frank McKenna, in company of William Johnson, charged with entering the house of J. A. Terhune, No. 416 West Twenty-eighth Street, by removing a panel of the basement door. The noise awakened the occupants of the house, who pursued them, and caused their arrest. Woods and Johnson both pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree, and were each sentenced to State prison at Sing Sing for five years on August 4, 1874, by Recorder Hackett. Woods escaped from Sing Sing on June 2, 1876, but was recaptured and returned to prison the same month. He was arrested again in New York City on March 5, 1885, and delivered to the authorities of Pawtucket, R. J., charged with robbing the house of William Sayles, a wealthy manufacturer of that place. This robbery was what is called a second-story job. He was tried on July 3, 1885, and the jury disagreed. He was afterwards admitted to bail, an official becoming his bondsman, so as to insure his return in case any further evidence could be obtained against him. This was a lucky escape for him. Woods is well known in all the large Eastern cities. He has served time in State prisons in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, and is a very clever thief. Woods' picture is a good one, taken in December, 1877.