WILLIAM WRIGHT

Alias: ROARING BILL

Specialties: GENERAL THIEF

No: 174 Last Displayed: 7/11/2022

Description:

Fifty-three years old in 1886. Born in United States. Single. No trade. Slim build. Height, 5 feet 4 1/2 inches. Weight, 130 pounds. Brown hair, turning gray; gray eyes, sallow complexion. Generally wears a mustache, which is quite gray. Scars on right eyebrow, under lower lip, and on chin.

Record:

"ROARING BILL" is an old New York thief. He has spent the best portion of his life in State prisons and penitentiaries, and is well known in all the principal cities in America. He is a general thief, can turn his hand to almost anything, and is considered a very clever man. He is credited with having served four years for an express-train robbery in Colorado; also, with robbing an Adams Express Co. money-car, out West, of $15,000. Bill was arrested in Providence, R. I., and sentenced to four years in the Rhode Island State prison on March 21, 1881, for the larceny of a valise containing a sealskin sack and several other things from a railroad train between New York and Providence. His sentence expired on October 25, 1884. He was arrested again in New York City on August 10, 1885. and committed to Blackwell's Island for three months, in default of $500 bail, as a suspicious person, by Justice Murray. Wright's picture'Is a good one, taken in August, 1885.