EDWARD TULLY

Alias: BROKEN-NOSE TULLY

Specialties: PICKPOCKET

No: 140 Last Displayed: 7/5/2021

Description:

Forty-one years old in 1886. Born in Ireland. Single. No trade. Stout build. Height, 5 feet 6 1/2 inches. Weight, 155 pounds. Dark hair. gray eyes, dark complexion, broken nose. Rather large, long head. Wears a brown mustache. Easily recognized by his picture. Has an Irish brogue and face.

Record:

"BROKEN-NOSE TULLY" is an old and expert New York pickpocket, and is well known in every large city in the Union. He travels with the best people in the business, and is considered a clever pickpocket. He has a remarkable nose, which he claims always "gives him away." Tully was arrested in Philadelphia and sentenced to fourteen months in the Eastern Penitentiary, on June 29, 1880, for picking the pocket of a small boy of $83. He was arrested again in Boston, Mass., with Shinny McGuire (ISS), on July 16, 1881, awaiting an opportunity to do a "turn trick" in the Naverick National Bank, After getting a good showing up they were escorted out of town. He was arrested again in Lancaster, Pa., for picking pockets, and sentenced to eighteen months in the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia, on November 18, 1884. He is now at large. Tully's picture is an excellent one, taken in Buffalo, N. Y.