EDWARD McGEE

Alias: EDDIE McGEE

Specialties: BURGLAR, SNEAK

No: 167 Last Displayed: 5/30/2024

Description:

Thirty-nine years old in 1886. Southerner by birth. A baker by trade. Height 5 feet 10 1/2 inches. Weight, 130 pounds. Tall. slim man. Brown hair, dark eyes, dark, sallow complexion. Has a coat-of-arms and sunburst in India ink on his right fore-arm. Dark mustache and chin whiskers; grows thin.

Record:

EDDIE MCGEE is one of the cleverest burglars, sneak thieves and pennyweight workers there is in the country. He is a partner of Johnny Curtin, alias Cunningham, alias Roberts (169), another daring and desperate thief. McGee is well known in all the principal cities of the United States. especially Chicago, Philadelphia (Pa.), New York and Boston. in all of which he is said to have been sent to prison. McGee and Curtin were arrested in Philadelphia. Pa, for shoplifting, and sentenced to eighteen months each in the Eastern Penitentiary. When their time expired, on August 14. 1883, they were both arrested by New York officers, at the penitentiary gate, and brought to New York City, to answer an indictment charging them with the larceny of $1,200 worth of jewelry from Theodore Starr, a Fifth Avenue jeweler, in January, 1882. In this case there was no conviction. Shortly after their release they went to England. Curtin was arrested there and sent to prison. McGee returned to America. and was arrested in Brooklyn, N. Y., on February 12, 1884, for burglary. and sentenced to five years and six months in the Kings County Penitentiary on April 16. 1884, under the name of B. C. Earl. McGee's picture is an excellent one, taken in August, 1883.