PATRICK MARTIN

Alias: ENGLISH FRANK HILTON, PADDY, PICKPOCKET

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No: 133 Last Displayed: 4/25/2022

Description:

Twenty-nine years old in 1886. Born in Ireland. Single. Laborer. Medium build. Height, 5 feet 6 inches. Weight, 148 pounds. Light hair, blue eyes, sandy complexion.

Record:

PADDY MARTIN, or ENGLISH PADDY, is an English thief. He has been traveling through the country with a gang of Bowery (New York) pickpockets, and is considered a pretty clever man. He was arrested in New York City on June 19,1885, in company of another pickpocket, named Frank Mitchell, for an attempt to pick a man's pocket on Bowling Green, near the Battery, New York. Both of them were sentenced to one month in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, by Justice Duffy, on June 20, 1885. Paddy was arrested again in Jersey City, N. J., on December 12, 1885, in the act of robbing a Mrs. Margaret Peters, of Montgomery Street, Jersey City, on a Pennsylvania ferry-boat. He tried to make her believe that he mistook her for his wife, and offered her ten dollars to release him. She rejected his overtures, and held on to him until a policeman arrived. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to three years and six months in Trenton State prison on December 14, 1885, under the name of Frank Hilton. His picture is an excellent one, taken in June, 1885.