JOE RICKERMAN

Alias: NIGGER BAKER

Specialties: BURGLAR, PICKPOCKET

No: 195 Last Displayed: 7/1/2019

Description:

Thirty-nine years old in 1886. Born in New York. Single. No trade. Medium build. Height, 5 feet 6 1/2 inches. Weight, 145 pounds. Black hair, hazel eyes, dark complexion. Generally wears a black mustache. Two vaccination marks on right arm.

Record:

JOE RICKERMAN, alias "Nigger" Baker, so called on account of his very dark complexion, is a well known New York burglar and pickpocket. He is an associate of Will Kennedy, Joe Gorman (146), Big Jim Casey (91), "Poodle" Murphy (134), "Pretty" Jimmie (143), Jimmy Scraggins, and other well known New York thieves and pickpockets. He is pretty well known in all the Eastern cities, especially in Philadelphia and New York, where his picture is in the Rogues' Gallery. He has served terms in prison in Philadelphia (Pa.), Sing Sing (N. Y.), and in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, and is considered a very handy man with a set of tools. Of late years Joe has been traveling through the country, "stalling" for a gang of pickpockets. He was arrested in New York City and sentenced to three years and six months in Sing Sing prison for burglary, on September 15, 1881. His sentence expired on July 15, 1884. Rickerman's picture is a good one, taken in November, 1878.