Joseph Hardin Sykes was born 2 Mar 1901 in Kentucky to John T Sykes & Bettie T Richardson.
Louisville, Kentucky Jail record
Joseph's Criminal Career Timeline:
Reformatory
9 Sep 1919 Greendale, KY
Escaped
1924 Louisville, KY
Alias: Homer Smith
1925 Nice Car
Was sentenced for auto theft
1928 Clothes Make The Man
21 Sep 1928 Louisville, KY
Started a 30 day term for vagrancy, on the 20th he had stolen a truck load of clothes from the cleaners.
1932 Up In Smoke
May 1932 Cincinnati, OH
Stole a car and went down to the tracks to steal 10,000 cigarettes from a mail car. Admits to two priors of auto theft 1-20 years Ohio State Pen
said he had escaped from there from an earlier stint he did.
1935 Back to Louisville, KY
1940 in Georgia and married to whom???
In the Kentucky State Pen
1951 Tevarkana
He got out of Federal Prison stole a gun on 17 Sep 1951
Oct 1951 stole 3 guns has 10 prior jail visits
1953 Free
30 June 1953 Atlanta, GA released from the State Pen
30 July 1953 Going home from Cincinnati, OH Union Terminal.
13 July Postal worker had his gun stolen from his language Sykes arrested at Union Terminal.
1959 Traveling Man
28 Jan 1959 Cincinnati, OH State mail pouch key was stolen.
After Cincinnati he his Louisville then St. Louis
16 Feb 1959 Caught again in St. Louis, MO 4 guns stole this time.
11 Nov 1966 Atlanta, GA
16th term ends a 4 year sentence, 4 days later he's in Chicago, IL stealing again. Known as "Stuttering Joe" to other inmates.
In & Out 16th & 17th arrest
25 Nov 1966 Chicago, IL On the 15th he stole from the mail at Chicago's Union Station.
Tampa Resident
Oct 1971 Breaking & Entering Deputy U.S. Marshal's car.
1974 Death come to him while he is in the Florida State Pen 26 Aug.
What a life
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