JOHN PETTENGILL

Alias: " PETTENGILL, "JOE

Specialties: BURGLAR, COUNTERFEITER, FORGER

No: 198 Last Displayed: 3/25/2016

Description:

Fifty-one years old in 1886. Born in the United States. Single. No trade.Stout build. Height, 5 feet 6 inches. Weight, about 150 pounds. Blue eyes, very weak; light hair, light complexion. Thick lower lip, broad, high forehead. Has India ink marks on left arm and back of left hand. Small scar on back of neck from a boil.

Record:

PETTENGILL is an old New York thief. He is what may be called. a general thief, as he can turn his hand to almost anything-burglary, boarding-house work, handling forged paper or bonds, counterfeiting, etc. He has been arrested in almost every State from Maine to California, and has spent considerable of his life in State prison. He is well known in all the cities, and is considered more of a tool than a principal. He was arrested in Philadelphia, Pa., on June 24, 1875, and sentenced to two years in Cherry Hill prison. Since then he has served terms in Sing Sing prison, New York, and other places. He was finally arrested in the ferry house in Hoboken, N. J., on April 18, 1885, in company of Theodore Krewolf, charged with passing a number of counterfeit ten dollar bills, of the series of 1875, on several shopkeepers in Hoboken. He was sentenced to six years in Trenton State prison for this offense, on July 22, 1885. His picture is a good one, taken in June, 1875.