MARY BUSBY

Alias: JOHNSON, MITCHELL

Specialties: PICKPOCKET, SHOPLIFTER

No: 126 Last Displayed: 7/19/2023

Description:

Forty-eight years old in 1886. Born in England. Married. Stout build. Height, 5 feet. Weight, 221 pounds. Dark brown hair, gray eyes, dark complexion.

Record:

MARY BUSBY is a clever pickpocket and shoplifter, and is well known in all the large cities. Harry Busby, alias Broken-nose Busby (135), her husband, is an old New York pickpocket and "stall." She was arrested in New York City for shoplifting on October 25, 1882, under the name of Mary Johnson, and sentenced to six months in the penitentiary on October 30, 1882, by Judge Ford. Arrested again in Boston, Mass., on May 3, 1883, for larceny of $40 worth of silk garments from Jourdan & Marsh's dry goods store. For this she was sentenced to one year in the House of Correction on May 18, 1883. After her discharge in Boston, she went to New York City, and was arrested for the larceny of a bonnet from Rothschild'syestablishment on West Fourteenth Street. For this she was sentenced to five months in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island on May 20, 1884. This time she used the name of Mary Mitchell. Mary Busby had previously served two years on Blackwell's Island, and two years in the House of Correction in Boston, Mass. She was again sentenced to fourteen months in the Eastern Penitentiary on September 14, 1885, for picking pockets in Wannemaker's store in Philadelphia, Pa. Her picture is an excellent one, taken in October, 1882.