THEODORE WILDEY

Alias: GEORGE BREWSTER, GEORGE DAVIS, THE WILEY

Specialties: GENERAL THIEF, SNEAK

No: 171 Last Displayed: 1/24/2024

Description:

Forty-four years old in 1886. Born in United States. Married. Printer. Medium build. Height, 5 feet 11 inches. Weight, 166 pounds. Brown hair, brown eyes, dark complexion, dark brown mustache, high forehead. Two joints off fingers of right hand. "Josephine," and numbers "1858," in India ink on left fore-arm.

Record:

"THE." WILEY is a clever sneak thief, burglar and pickpocket. He is what might be called a good general thief, as he can turn his hand to almost anything. He is well known in New York and nearly all the principal cities in the United States. He is an old criminal, and has served terms in Sing Sing and other prisons. He was arrested in New York City on August 14, 1875, and delivered to the Brooklyn (N. Y.) police authorities, for robbing a safe in Calvin Cline's jewelry store on Fourth Street, that city, of $5,000 worth of diamonds, on August 12, 1875. He was tried in the Kings County Court of Sessions in Brooklyn, on October 6, 1875, convicted, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary by Judge Moore, for burglary in the second degree, under the name of George Marsh. He cut off the fingers of his right hand, while confined in the Kings County Penitentiary, so he would not have to work. His sentence expired on Aprils, 1882. He was arrested again in Syracuse, N. Y., on January 4, 1883, in company of Timothy Oats (136) and William A. Brown, alias, "The Student," charged with stealing a tin box containing $250 in money from a saloon there. (See record of No. 136.) Wiley gave the name of George Davis, alias George Marsh, and was tried, convicted, and sentenced to five years in Auburn (N. Y.) State prison, on March 1, 1883. His sentence expires October 1, 1886. Oats pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years on the same day in this case. Russell also pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five years in Auburn prison at the same time. Wiley's picture is an excellent one, taken in September, 1882.