Charles Hylebert (born John William Heil, aka Cincinnati Red, aka Red Hyle, 1850 - 1904). American hotel thief.
He was born and raised in Cincinnati, where he learned the butcher's trade. He started his career as a thief when he was twenty and soon began one of the most celebrated hotel thieves in the US.
In 1880 he was arrested and sentenced to the Georgia penitentiary for a hotel robbery in Atlanta. In 1885 he was sentenced to four years in the Northern State prison at Michigan City.
Red escaped conviction during the years between 1889 and 1904, though he was arrested and tried many times: in Chicago, Washington, Baltimore, Louisville, and New York.
In November 1904, Heil was found unconscious in a rooming house in Chicago. The stove in his room was leaking gas. The coroner declared that he died from accidental asphyxiation.
- "He was called Red Hyle on account of his red hair and florid face." https://books.google.it
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