THOMAS PRICE

Alias: "DEAFY PRICE", PICKPOCKET

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No: 158 Last Displayed: 3/7/2022

Description:

About forty-four years old in 1886. Born in New York. Single. No trade.Medium build. Height, 5 feet 7 inches. Weight, about 150 pounds. Brown hair, dark eyes, sallow complexion, high forehead, an Irish expression, and is very deaf.

Record:

"DEAFY PRICE" ought to be well known all over America, as he has been a thief for at least twenty-five years. He is one of the old Bowery gang of pickpockets, and an associate of Old Jim Casey, "Jimmy the Kid" (142), "Big Dick" Morris (141), "Pretty Jimmy" (143), "Jersey Jimmy" (145), "Combo" (148), "Nibbs" (137), "Funeral" Wells (150), and, in fact, all the old timers. He is a brother of Jimmy Price, the "Moll Buzzer" (154), and Johnny Price, the bank sneak. (See record of No.(9).) He is a saucy, impudent thief, and wants to be taken in hand at once. He was arrested in New York City and sent to the work-house on Blackwell's Island, N. Y., on July 3, 1866. . He was arrested again in New York City, in company of another man who has since reformed, for an attempt to pick pockets, and sentenced to four months in the penitentiary, on October 17, 1866, by Judge Dodge. He was arrested in New York City again on July 21, 1875, charged with violently assaulting Samuel F. Clauser, of No. 38 East Fourth Street, New York, while that gentleman was walking down Broadway. He was placed on trial on July 27, 1875, in the Court of Special Sessions, in the Tombs prison building, on a charge of assault with intent to steal, as a pickpocket. The evidence of the complainant was not strong enough to convict him of the intent to steal, and he was discharged. He was arrested again on September 8, 1876, in company of George Williams, alias "Western George" (now dead), at the Reading Railroad depot, near the Centennial Exhibition Grounds, in Philadelphia, Pa. They were taken inside the grounds, and sentenced to ninety days in the penitentiary on September 9, 1876, under a special law passed to protect visitors to the Exposition from professional thieves. He was arrested again in New York City on December 25, 1879, charged with attempting to rob one Marco Sala, an Italian gentleman, while riding on a horse-car. He was committed for trial by the police magistrate, and afterwards discharged by Judge Cowing, in the Court of General Sessions, on January 30, 1880. Price's picture is a good one, although taken fifteen years ago, in New York City.