ALEX'R EVANS

Alias: ALECK THE MILKMAN, CHARLES WATSON

Specialties: PICKPOCKET

No: 160 Last Displayed: 3/14/2024

Description:

Thirty-eight years old in 1886. Born in United States. Married. Peddler. Stout build. Height, 5 feet 5 inches. Weight, 207 pounds. Brown hair, hazel eyes. florid complexion. Bald on front of head.

Record:

"ALECK THE MILKMAN" is a professional thief, and one of the Bowery, New York, gang of pickpockets. He is known from Maine to California. He "stalls" generally, but is credited with being a clever "wire" (a term for one who actually picks the pocket). He has served terms in Sing Sing prison and Blackwell's Island, N. Y. His last arrest was in New York City, for an attempt at grand larceny, for which he was convicted and sentenced to two years and six months in State prison at Sing Sing. N. Y., on June 23, 1885, under the name of Charles H. Williamson. Evans' sentence will expire, allowing him full commutation, on April 23, 1887. Evans's oldest son, Geo. W. Evans. who. unlike his father, is not a thief, was sentenced to fifteen years in State prison on January 22, 1886, for shooting and killing a negro named Thos. Currie in an altercation as to the janitorship of a flat house in West Twenty-first Street, on the night of January 30. 1885. His picture resembles him, although his eyes are closed. It was taken in April, 1881.