WILLIAM E FARRELL

Alias: FRANK ALEXANDER, SHERIDAN

Specialties: BURGLAR, BUTCHER-CART THIEF

No: 109 Last Displayed: 10/19/2020

Description:

Thirty-one years old in 1886. Medium build. Born in New York City. Single, No trade. Height, 5 feet 10 inches. Weight, 167 pounds. Black hair, dark eyes. dark complexion. Has a scar over the left eye, another on right side of chin. Left arm has been broken at elbow.

Record:

FARRELL is a desperate and daring thief. He is a burglar, but of late years has done considerable butcher-cart work. He is the man that makes the assault, generally using about eighteen inches of lead water-pipe as a weapon. He has served two terms in Sing Sing prison, one in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, and one in Boston, Mass., for burglary and larceny. He was arrested in Philadelphia, Pa., on January 15, 1884, by the New York detectives, assisted by Philadelphia officers, with one James Titterington, alias Titter (111), charged with assaulting with a piece of lead pipe and robbing Luther Church, the superintendent of John E. Dwight's Harlem Soda Works, of $2,300, as he was descending the steps of the 111th Street station of the Second Avenue Elevated Railroad in New York City, on December 31, 1883. Farrell pleaded guilty to robbery in the first degree, and was sentenced to fifteen years in State prison on January 25, 1884, by Judge Cowing, in the Court of General Sessions, New York. Eddie Gearing, alias Goodie (110), the celebrated butcher-cart thief, was also arrested in connection with this robbery, and sentenced to twenty years in State prison. Titterington (111) turned State's evidence and was used to convict Goodie. He was finally sentenced to seven years and six months in State prison on March 14, 1884. Farrell's picture is a good one, taken in December, 1877.