FREDERICK LAUTHER

Alias: , F R WILSON, FREDDIE LOUTHER

Specialties: PICKPOCKET, SNEAK

No: 161 Last Displayed: 9/21/2020

Description:

Forty-five years old in 1886. Born in United States. Married. No trade. Medium build. Height, 5 feet 8 inches. Weight, 145 pounds, Dark hair, dark gray eyes, dark complexion. Generally wears a heavy sandy beard; sometimes dyes it. Has numbers "33" in India ink on his left fore-arm.

Record:

LAUTHER is an old New York sneak thief and pickpocket. He formerly kept a drinking saloon in the Tenth Ward, New York City, which was the resort of a large number of the professional thieves in America. He is the husband of Big Mag Shaffer, a very clever old-time shoplifter and pickpocket. Lauther was arrested in New York City, and sentenced to Sing Sing prison for two years and six months on April 20, 1874, for grand larceny under the name of Robert Campbell. He was arrested again in Philadelphia, Pa., on February 21, 1878, under the name of Shaw, his picture taken, and discharged. Arrested again with George Milliard (138), and Tommy Matthews (156), in New York City, on the arrival of the Fall River steamer Newport, on April 12, 1879, for the larceny of a watch and $12 in money from Daniel Stein, during the passage from Boston to New York. So cleverly was the robbery committed that Judge Otterbourg was forced to discharge them. He was arrested and convicted in Harrisburg, Pa., in June, 1879. Again, on April 3, 1880, in Philadelphia, in company of Will Kennedy, for larceny from the person, and sentenced to eighteen months' solitary confinement in the Eastern Penitentiary. He has been arrested from time. to time in almost every city in the Union. He has served terms in Sing Sing prison and the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, N. Y., and is a man well worth knowing. His picture is an excellent one, taken in June, 1885.