New-York tribune., 1879-09-02
ACASE OF BOLD ROBBERY.

THE OFFICE OF THE LONG ISLAND RAILWAY RIFLED
EARLY IN THE EvEN1NG.
The Long Island Railway Company has ticket
office in the building occupied rs baggage-room by
Westcotts Express IN West Thirty-fourth-st., i'm
mediately adjoining the Hunters Point ferry house.
The ticket agent, John WaddeIl, has been in the
employ of the company for seven wears, and 1t has
been his custom at the close of each days business,
to carry his cash by ferry to the Office of the Long
Island Railway Company at Hunters Point and
there deposit il in the safe. On Sunday night he
did not do 90.
Joseph Hcerv Is employed by the express company
to supcrniend the conveyance Of baggage from the
New-York side 10 the depot at Hunters Point. He
is engaged in this work all day, and at night he Is
employed bY the express company TO sleep IN the
New-York baggage-rOOm. As rule he arrives at
the baggagc-rOom shortly after O'Clock every
night and just about the time that Ticket Agent
Madde is closing up his Office.
The baCgagc-room has "a frontage of about % feet
on Thirty-fourth-st., and extends back about 90
feet The front of the premises principally glass,
and there three doors IN It, In the rear there are
three windows protected with iron bars, and a
door. After dark gas Jet burns at full power. so
that the view from the street is unobstructcd, ex-
cept by low baggage counter which extends
across the room about ten feet from the entrance.
The ticket agents office is a small wooden structure,
about four feet wide and seven feet long. Ii stands
against the west wall, and is on line with the
counter. The entrance to 1t is from the OF the
counter.
On Sunday night Heery, the watchman. camc
duty before the ticket agent left his Office. His
statement Is. that having worked hard all the week
he desired little recreation, and when the agent
started for Hunters Point he Joined hun and crossed
the river in his company. The two men separated
on the Long Island side of the river. and Heery
went to visit some friends He returned TO his post
about 1890 D. H.. and found the west door open. 1t
Rad been forced with jimmy from the outside.
Further examination disclosed the fact that the
door of the agents Office had also been forced open.
The desk in the Office had been opened
and riled. AT that time he did not
know what money had been taken away.
but he found on top of the desk. immediately under
the ticket window. a number Of piles of silver
coins. amounting IN all to 1906 49, This had been
undisturbed. The watchman knew that the drawer
had contained money In bills, and when he dis
covered that they were Missing be reported the
robbery to the police. Agent Waddeil subse-
Quently stated that 81 .325 had been stolen.
The robbery must have been committed between
7:30 and 1890 y. m. and between those hours many
persons passed the Office. which was fully lighted.
Adjoining the Office on the west side Is a refresh
ment saloon, which also brilliantly lighted, and
during the time when the theft occurred the pro-
sidewalk within ten feet of the door which was
subsequently found open. He saw enter the
premises.
IN the early part of the evening the ticket agent
while making up his cash called the attention of
Phillip Gum, shOe-black, who lounges about the
place To the large roll of bills he had, and remarkc ed
ON the amount of comfort he could have IL he pos
sessed henI Gum replied that II he had the money
he vould not have to work for at least two years
He was not about the place after the watchInan
day morning he was arrested on suspicion, and later
was arraigned Mt the F1fty-seventh Street Police
Court before judge Smith, who remanded him for
furfher examination. he detectives of the Twenty
first Precinct are investigating the but up 10 a
late hour last night they had made no arrests.