JAMES WHITE

Alias: ALLEN, DOCTOR LONG, POP WHitE

Specialties: CONFIDENCE MAN, HOTEL THIEF

No: 94 Last Displayed: 1/17/2024

Description:

Seventy years old in 1886. Born in Delaware. Painter by trade. Very slim. Single. Height, 5 feet 8 1/2 inches. Weight, about 135 pounds. Gray hair, dark-blue eyes, sallow complexion, very wrinkled face. Looks like a well-to-do farmer.

Record:

OLD Pop WHITE, or "Doc" LONG, is the oldest criminal in his line in America. Over one-third of his life has been spent in State prisons and penitentiaries. He has. turned his hand to almost everything, from stealing a pair of shoes to fifty thousand dollars. He was well known when younger as a clever bank sneak, hotel man and confidence worker. He is an old man now, and most of his early companions are dead. He worked along the river fronts of New York and Boston for years, with George, alias" Kid" Affleck (56), and old" Hod" Bacon, and was arrested time and time again. One of their victims, whom they robbed in the Pennsylvania Railroad depot at Philadelphia in 1883 of $7,000, died of grief shortly after. Old White was discharged from Trenton, N. J., State prison on December 19, 1885, after serving a term for grand larceny. He was arrested again in New York City the day after for stealing a pair of shoes from a store. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five months in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, in the Court of Special Sessions, on December 22, 1885. Pop White's picture is a Rood one, taken in July, 1875.