JAMES PRICE

Alias: JIMMY PRICE

Specialties: PICKPOCKET

No: 154 Last Displayed: 6/7/2023

Description:

Forty-five years old in 1886. Born in New York. Married. No trade. Stout build. Height, 5 feet 7 1/2 inches. Weight, 170 pounds. Brown hair, dark eyes, thick nose, dark complexion.. .

Record:

JIMMY PRICE is an old New York pickpocket. He has been a "Moll Buzzer" (one who picks a woman's pocket) ever since he was a boy, and confines himself generally to that particular branch of the business. This big, lazy thief has sent many a poor woman home minus her few hard-earned dollars, after her visit to a crowded market, fair, or railroad car. He is a brother of Tommy Price, alias" Deafy" Price, the pickpocket (158), and Johnny Price, the bank sneak. (See record of No.(9).) He is well known in all the principal cities in the United States and Canada. He has served terms in Sing Sing prison and on Blackwell's Island. He was arrested in New York City, and sentenced to one year in Sing Sing prison, on October 20, 1876, under the name of William A. Hoyt, for grand larceny from the person. Since then he has done service for several States, and is now at large. Price's picture is not so good as it might have been, on account of some difficulty he had with the officer, at the time of his arrest, in 1877.