MARGARET BROWN

Alias: HASKINS, OLD MOTHER HUBBARD, YOUNG

Specialties: PICKPOCKET, SHOPLIFTER

No: 117 Last Displayed: 3/29/2023

Description:

Fifty-eight years old in 1886. Born in Ireland. Married. Housekeeper. Slim build. Height, 5 feet 3 inches. Weight, 120 pounds. Gray hair, gray eyes, light complexion. Generally wears a long cloak when stealing.

Record:

MARGARET BROWN, which is her right name, has been a thief for fifty years. She makes a specialty of opening hand-bags, removing the pocket-book, and closing them again. She was arrested in Chicago, Ill., and sentenced to three years in Joliet prison. where, in an attempt to escape, she fell, and-was nearly killed. She was discharged from Joliet in 1878, and after that operated in St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and other cities. She was arrested in Boston, Mass., on March 24, 1883, in R. H. White's dry goods store, for stealing a hand-bag, which was found on her person; for this offense she served six months in the House of Correction there. She was arrested in New York City on March 26, 1884, for stealing a pocket-book from a Mrs. H. S. Dennison, of Brooklyn, N. Y., in Macy's store on Fourteenth Street; for this she was sentenced to three months in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island on April 2, 1884.On the expiration of this sentence on July 2, 1884, she was arrested again on a requisition from Boston, Mass., charged with the larceny of a satchel containing $260 in money from a store there. She was taken to Boston, and sentenced to two years in the House of Correction in the latter part of July. She was subsequently transferred to Deer Island, on account of her old age and infirmities. Her picture is an excellent one, taken in March, 1883.