Margaret Brown (criminal)

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Margaret Brown (born c. 1828) was an Irish-born American criminal and thief in

Big Mary, Sophie Lyons, Queen Liz and Lena Kleinschmidt.[1][2]

Biography

Born in

Joliet Prison
where she would suffer serious injuries in a failed escape attempt.

After being discharged from Joliet Prison in 1878, she resumed her criminal career in major cities including

Blackwell's Island
.

Released on July 2, she was arrested as she was leaving the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island and returned to Boston for trial, for stealing a purse containing $260 from a Mrs. Coburn in a Boston store. The New York Times reported that police records showed she had been a criminal for 50 years.[4] She was returned to Boston where she was convicted of larceny. Although sentenced to two years in Boston House of Correction in late July, she was eventually transferred to Deer Island due to her old age and infirmity.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 1-56025-275-8
  2. ISBN 1-56025-521-8
  3. ^ "Silenced by her photograph". The New York Times, March 28, 1884, page 8. Retrieved August 12, 2008
  4. ^ "An aged but incorrigible thief". The New York Times, July 3, 1884, page 8. Retrieved August 12, 2008.
  5. ^ Byrnes, Thomas. 1886 Professional Criminals of America. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1969.
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