TILLIE PHEIFFER

Alias: KATE COLLINS, MARTIN

Specialties: HOTEL, HOUSE SNEAK

No: 125 Last Displayed: 12/2/2016

Description:

Thirty-six years old in 1886. Born in France. Servant. Married. Slim build. Height, 5 feet 3 inches. Weight, 128 pounds. Dark brown hair, hazel eyes, dark complexion. Mole on the right side of the nose under the eye.

Record:

TILLIE PHEIFFER, or MARTIN, is a notorious house and hotel sneak thief. She sometimes hires out as a servant and robs her employers; but her specialty is to enter a hotel or flat, and wander up through the house until she finds a room door open, when she enters and secures whatever is handy and decamps. She is known in New York City, Brooklyn, Paterson, N. J., and Baltimore, Md., where she also served a term in prison. She is said to have kept a road-house near Paterson, N. J., some years ago. Tillie was arrested in New York City a few years ago, endeavoring to rob the Berkeley Flats, on the corner of Ninth Street and Fifth A venue, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary, but subsequently released on habeas corpus proceedings in 1879. She was arrested in Brooklyn, N. Y., disposing of a stolen watch in a pawnbroker's shop. When arrested, she drew a revolver and attempted to shoot the officer. For this she was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary there. She was arrested again in New York City on June 15, 1881, taken to police head-quarters and searched. There was found upon her person four pocket-books, which contained money and jewelry. In one of them there was $10 in money, a gold hairpin and earrings, and the address of Miss Jennie Yeamans, of East Ninth Street, New York City, who testified that her rooms had been entered by a sneak thief during her absence, and the property stolen. Two other parties appeared against her and testified that she had robbed them also. Tillie pleaded guilty in this case, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, on June 23, 1881, by Judge Cowing. She was arrested again in New York City on June 19, 1882, for entering the apartments of Annie E. Tool, No. 151 Avenue B, and stealing a gold watch and chain and a pair of diamond earrings valued at $300. For this she was sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary on June 26, 1882, by Judge Gildersleeve. Her picture is a fair one, taken in June, 1882.