1831 City Bank of New York theft

[4] A modern source, drawing on period newspapers, fingers James Honeyman and William J.

[1][5] The Connecticut Courant reported that the suspect, Smith (Honeyman), was apprehended "due to the acuteness and indefatigable vigilance of High Constable Hays."

Honeyman had been apprehended in the previous year for robbing "Mr. Schenck's store" in Brooklyn.

He was a "Morocco (leather) dresser" by trade who kept a small shoe store on the Bowery where he allowed "dissipated profligates" to gather.

[6] Constable Hays found nothing during his first search of the Division Street rooms where Honeyman lived with his wife and two children.

View of the northeast corner of William and Wall streets. The house to the far right became City Bank of New York's first home at 38 Wall Street, later renumbered as No.52. (Painting by Archibald Robertson , c. 1798) [ 1 ]