Man With Many Aliases

and Long Criminal Record

Incarcerated for

Not Over Year.

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SENTENCED BY

JUDGE I.M. OLSEN

AFTER CONVICTION

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Charged With Picking Pockets During County Fair Here Last Fall. Nabbed in West.

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Howard Healey, he of the many aliases and a long, dark criminal record, was taken to Stillwater by Sheriff W. J. Julius and J. B. Forster, Friday morning, to serve a term of not to exceed one year at the state prison there. Healey had been sentenced by Judge I. M. Olsen in district court here, Monday of last week, following his conviction on a charge of picking pockets on the Fair grounds in this city during the 1924 Brown County fair.

As stated in the Journal last week and previous thereto, Healey was arrested at Ogden, Utah, recently, on a fugitive bench warrant issued by Judge Olsen upon his failure to report in district court here to answer to an indictment returned by the grand jury at the December term last year. Healey and his pal, Charles Murphy, were arrested as pickpocket suspects and later released on $2,000 bail each, which was forfeited as a result of their non-appearance in court. Murphy is now serving time in the Oklahoma state prison, following his conviction on a pickpocket charge at Oklahoma City, some time ago.

Long Criminal Record.

County Attorney T. O. Streissguth received a letter from C. S. Morrill, superintendent of the California State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation at Sacramento, several days ago, containing a detailed statement as to Healey’s many aliases under which he “worked,” and his long and dark criminal record, as follows:

Aliases-Frank Fields, Howard J. Healey, Thomas Ryan, Leo Berger, Harry Woolsey, Harry Adams, Frank Hammond, Herbert King, Frank Abbott and Harry Hammand.

Criminal Record –1905, arrested at San Francisco, Calif., No. 16195, six months city jail; October, 1906, Utah state prison, No. 1922, as Adams, charge grand larceny, discharged in August, 1907; February 28, 1908, Folsom state prison, No. 6903, as Healey, charge burglary, five years from Sacramento county, Calif., discharged September 28, 1911; December 21,1911, San Francisco, No. 21485, as Ryan, charge vagrancy; May 20,1913,Vancouver, B. C., Can., No. 5929, as King, charge vagrancy, given hours; Vancouver, B. C., as Berger, charge vagrancy, given hours; June 14, 1913,Portland, Ore., No. 1629, as Berger, charge pickpocket, hours; August 22,1913, San Diego, Calif., No. 1733, as Woolsey, charge suspect, released following day; December 20, 1913, Oakland, Calif., No. 4143, as Healey, charge pickpocket, given hours; March 26,1914, Los Angeles, Calif., No. 11645, charge pickpocket, 180 days’ suspended sentence; March 9, 191s, San Diego, No. 1733, as Healey, charge pickpocket, given hours; September 23, 1916, Los Angeles, charge suspect pickpocket, released two days later; October 12,1916,Santa Barbara,Calif., No. 237, as Fields, charge pickpocket (“touched” Kerwin of Santa Maria for $80 in circus jam), $200 fine and six months; December 12, 1924, Fort Worth, Texas, No. 3149, as Abbott, charge investigation, pickpocket (in company with Harry Golden). In addition to the above, reference is made to the issues of “The Detective,” November, 1913, and June, 1914.

Brown County Journal,

June 26, 1925

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