RICHARD MORRIS

Alias: BIG DICK

Specialties: PICKPOCKET

No: 141 Last Displayed: 9/5/2024

Description:

Forty-two years old in 1886. Born in United States. Married. Carpenter. Medium build. Height,5 feet 10 inches. Weight, 155 pounds. Brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion. Generally wears light-colored beard and mustache, inclined to be sandy.

Record:

"BIG DICK" is a well known New York pickpocket. He works with Charles Douglas. alias Curly Charley; Poodle Murphy (134), Shang Campbell (107). James Wilson, alias Pretty Jimmie (143). and all the other good New York men. He has traveled all over the United States, and is well known in all the principal cities. Morris formerly kept a drinking saloon in New York that was a resort for nearly all the pickpockets in America, but business fell off and he went back to his old business again. He was arrested in New York City, and sentenced to five years in Sing Sing prison, January 7. 1872, for larceny from the person, under the name of Richard Morris.He was arrested again in Albany, N. Y., by New York officers, and brought to New York City, where he pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary on August 10, 1885, for stealing a coat from Rogers, Peet & Co., some months previously. He gave bail in this case, which he forfeited, and was subsequently re-arrested as above. Morris's picture is a good one, taken in October 1877.