The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-30
FIFTEEN STARTLING CRIMES.
amr TINE FGAN0s OF GREECE OR
lTALy REALLY MORE Barring THAN
THE MEN gvyHo R9RBED THE MAN.
HAITIAN BANK.

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HAITIAN BANK,
ar the Mem who Assaulted cashier stone.
or Tnese who RaBbsa C",scc or Late-
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New York Sun
The number of daring csdrnes In this and
neirhborinE cities prompts correspondent
to aek II brlgandage ls really more bold or
frequent in italy or Greece than in New York
or Brooklyn. and II the chances that the dea-
peradoes will be brought 10 punishment are
very much greater in these two cities than in
the mountains of Greece or In the Appenines.
Probably the correspondent WAS not alto
.gether n earnest. but the record that he
alludes TO is certainly startling.
In the months of June, July and August
last there was a remarkable succession OF
bold crimes. On the tenth of June, at o'clock
In the evening, four or Eve men took posses
sion Of a Third Avenue car at Ninety fourth
street, and after stunning Mr.. Joseph w. La
fetra, collector of the Third Avenue Rail
road Company, with the butt of pistol, they
took from him satohel containing $iO0
in lob he was carrying down to the main office
Wide company. The car was filled with men,
The bl Aand children, including two members
tNational Guard. They and the con-
W were held In cheek by the revolvers of
as desperadoes, who, after they had snatehed
+. She satohei, went out, leaped into wagon
/ and whirled down side street.
4 On the third of August, just after noon.
while u. ii. Stone, cashier of Hales piano
\ factory, was returning along Ihirty-fonrth
L street To the factory With $1,000, which he had
i drawn from the West Side Savings Bank, two
a men stepped up behind him. and one pinioned
his arms, while the other put his hand In
Stones pocket and drew out package con-
tanning rolls of silver. Mr.. Stone, seeing an
American District Telegraph messenger boy,
tossed him a package OF money which he had
been carrying under his arm. The boy stopped
to pick it up out OF the gutter, aud as he
Strengthened UP he was knocked over by =
confederate OF the two robbers, and the pack
age was snatched froEi his hands. The
man then jumped into u butchers cart and
grasped the reins, The ether two followed
quickly. They We're driven rapidly toward
Ninth Avenue. Thirty-fourth street, between
Ninth and Tenth Avenues the place selected
for the robbery. Is lined ON either side by sub
stantial brick houses. 1t - wide, and many
people are constantly passing through It,
There are no vacant lots or alleys through
which a sudden escape oould be made. lhe
robbers waited until n police officer had walked
along Thirty-fourth street and turned up
Ninth Avenue. At the time the assault was
made street cars were approaching from both
directions. An ice wagon was rumbllng Dy,
and pedestrians were on either sidewalk.
Only one OF the robbers followed Mr.. Stone
in the butchers cart the other two being on
foot. TIE cart was pursued, but all trace Of
i was lost at Twenty-sixth street and Seventh
Avenue.
On the following evening man walking
down Seventh Avenue. near Twenty-third
street. was set upon by three young men,
who demanded his money. The man partly
broke away, but, while he was yet stru ggng
with them, one OF the young men, Patrick
Marian, fired a revolver at him. Police OIL
Ger MeG loin seized the man who had fired
the shot. The latter turned the pistol on
him and pulled the trigger, but the charge
missed fire. Inc man who fired the revolver
was arrested, but the man who was assaulted
could not be found.
On the sixteenth Of August. in the early
evening" five men in masks boarded the soop
William p. Hunt, lying In Corlears slip. and
presenting cooked revolvers, robbed the cap
tain and crew of $50 and their clothing Ross
Carr q sailor who resisted was wounded in
the leg by one OF the robbers with a pistoI
shot. The masked men got safely off with
their booty.
Ii was on the fourth Of June lsst that the
body of George Howard, the burglar was
found In some bushes beside the BronxviIle
road near YoAkerS. Investigation left little
doubt that he had been murdered In New
York. and his body carried out OF the city and
deposited where it was found.
Still, within year from the present, but as
early as saturday, March ., occurred the
robbery of Warren Lane and Daniel McGun-
ess, EMPLOYEES OF the Planet Manufacturing
Company, of Brooklyn. Lane and Metiuiness
had drawn $500 from bank in New York to
pay the employees In the mills. They had
recroSsed the ferry, and were going up Hoyt
street to President street, when Lane was
struck from behind on the head with bag of
shot. The money was quietly tax ken from
him. There were two robbers. Both then
attached McGuiness He backed up against
a fence and fought bravely, but he was se0n
knocked down. Then he crossed his hands
over IKE bag of gold which he carried, ana
held ii Lntil he was kicked to UNCONSCIOUS
ness. The robbers made a succaesful escape
with the booty, in a wagon whch was IN
waiting fer them. This occurred soon after
o'clock in the afternoon. There were many
persons in che street.
On the nineteenth of May Thomas Lynn,
OF 22e Mott street. was walking Though
grassy lane marked on the city map as one
hundred and 6aventy-tirst street. 1t Was ln
the afternoon, and ne was on his way to
pasture near Fleet wood Park to look at a fast
horse. He Noticed two boys sitting On q feace
and third standing in the roadway as he
approached. The boy in the roadway ASKED
MN what time it was, and he replied: hall |
past two my boy He passed on. ana
moment afterward he heard shot and felt |
singing sensation III his right side. he
eieouteg murder" The boy in the roadway !
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