EMANUEL MARKS

Alias: MINNIE MARKS, THE RED-HEADED JEW

Specialties: BANK SNEAK, CONFIDENCE MAN, SKIN GAMBLER

No: 187 Last Displayed: 1/10/2023

Description:

Forty-four years old in 1886. Jew, born in Illinois. Married. No trade .Medium build. Height 5 feet 10 inches. Weight, about 160 pounds. Florid complexion, bushy brown hair, almost sandy. He is a little stooped shouldered. Blue eyes that have a bold, searching look. Walks with a very slouchy gait. He is a good talker, and rattles away at a furious rate. Speaks good English, German and Hebrew. Used to dress well, but getting careless of late.

Record:

MINNIE MARKS, alias THE RED-HEADED JEW, is a Chicago thief, and is well known In Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, and New York. He received considerable notoriety when arrested in New York City, on October 21, 1881, and was delivered to the police authorities of Detroit, Mich., charged with robbing the First National Bank of that city of $2,080. It was a sneak robbery, which was done by four men, with a light wagon, on June 22, 1881. In Chicago, where 'Marks is well known, he is not considered a very smart thief, although other people who know him say he is a good man. He works with men like Rufe Minor (1), Mollie Matches (11), Johnny Jourdan (83), Georgie Carson (3), Big Rice (12), Billy Burke (162), Paddy Guerin, and other celebrated thieves. Marks's picture is in the Rogues' Gallery at New York, Chicago and Detroit. He is said to have been with Jourdan, Minor, Carson and Horace Hovan in the Middletown Bank robbery in July, 1880. He is also said to have been one of the men who, in April, 1881, attempted to rob the bank at Cohoes, N. Y. Marks succeeded in making his escape from the jail in Detroit, Mich., on March 12, 1882, with twelve other prisoners, and has never been recaptured. Since that time he has served two years in St. Vincent De Paul prison in Montreal, Canada. The latest accounts say that he is now employed as a porter in a first-class hotel in Montreal, Canada. Marks's picture is a very good one, taken in Detroit, Mich.