CHARLES WOODWARD

Alias: C B ANDERSON, HENDERSON, HOYT, THE DIAMOND SWALLOWER, WILLIAMS

Specialties: PENNYWEIGHT, SNEAK

No: 194 Last Displayed: 8/30/2023

Description:

Forty-five years old in 1886. Jew, born in America. Married. No trade.Medium build. Height, 5 feet 8 1/2 inches. Weight, about 150 pounds. Dark hair, turning gray; dark eyes, dark complexion. Generally wears a black mustache.

Record:

WOODWARD, alias WILLIAMS, is one of the most. notorious sneak thieves and shoplifters there is in America. He is known all over the United States and Canada as the "Palmer House Robber." This thief was arrested in New York some years ago for the larceny of a diamond from a jewelry store. When detected he had the stone in his mouth, arid swallowed it. He has served terms in State prison in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Canada, and is considered a very smart thief. He was arrested in Chicago, Ill., and sentenced to one year in Joliet prison on January 31, 1879, for the larceny of a trunk containing $15,000 worth of jewelry samples from a salesman in the Palmer House. The jewelry was recovered. Another well known sneak thief was also arrested in this case, and sentenced to five years in Joliet prison on February 1, 1879. Since then, it is claimed, he has reformed, and I therefore omit his name. Woodward, alias Williams, was arrested again in Philadelphia, on April 16, 1880, in company of William Hillburn, alias Marsh Market Jake (38), and Billy Morgan (72), for the larceny of $2,200 in bank bills from a man named Henry Ruddy. The trio were tried, convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in the Eastern Penitentiary on April 26, 1880. Woodward was arrested again at Rochester, N. Y., under the name of Charles B.Anderson, alias Charles B. Henderson, and sentenced on September 18, 1883, to two years in the Monroe County (N. Y.) Penitentiary, for grand larceny in the second degree; tried again the same day, convicted, and sentenced on another complaint of grand larceny in the second degree to two years more, making four years in all, by Judge Rouley, Judge of Monroe County, N. Y. His sentence will expire, allowinghim full commutation, on September 18, 1886. His picture is a fair one, taken in April, 1880.