 It states that he was a petty thief and burglar who, before his final arrest on a murder charge, served two terms in Blackwell's Island Penitentiary for larceny, one of four and the other of six months, as well as a -year term in the State Prison at Sing Sing for burglary.A separate "Times" report describes him as "well known in the various low saloons on the Bowery as a man of desperate character.