CHARLES BENNET

Alias: AGNELL, BENTLEY, CHARLEY BENNETT

Specialties: BURGLAR, SNEAK, WINDOW SMASHER

No: 188 Last Displayed: 5/13/2019

Description:

Thirty-seven years old in 1886. Height, 5 feet 7 inches. Weight, 145 pounds. Dark complexion. Had cast in one eye, which was operated upon, and is hardly noticeable now. Very genteel-looking. Good talker and writer. Dark brown hair. Generally wears a full dark beard, or mustache and whiskers, as in picture.

Record:

BENNETT is a very daring thief. He was an old partner of Fairy McGuire (78) and Sleepy Gus, and traveled through the country with them smashing in windows and robbing them. He is an expert burglar, and is well known in all the large cities, especially Philadelphia and New York. Bennett was arrested in Middletown, Conn., on December 5, 1878, with a lot of burglars' tools in his possession. He was tried and sentenced to two years in State prison, by Judge Morton, on the same day of his arrest. He has served terms in Sing Sing and the Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia since. This man, of late years, is not relied upon much by the fraternity, on account of his fondness for liquor. Bennett's picture is an excellent one, taken in December, 1878.