New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-20
SHOT BY HIGHWAYMEN.
A CowARpLY CRIME IN MoRRIsANlA.
MASKED ROBBERS SHOOT A LAD IN THE BREAST AND
STEAL HIS MONEY.

NAKED ROBBERS SHOOT A LAD IN THE BREAST AND
STEAL HIS MONEY.
Saturday night was as disaereeable between the
hours of 1880 aud $50 as could well Dc imagined.
svept over Morrisania during that hour. The wind
swept through the deserted streets and the rain
$40 the clouds parted. and young man OF
eighteen, employed as an engraver in Real g. Beck
ers meerschaum establishment came out Of his
place of shelter in Onehuudredan and fifty six th-st.
In Onc-hundred and-sixty- frst-st. He had his
weeks wages-amountng 70 about $17 OO-iu his
chain. He had Just reached the corner of Eagle
ave-, opposite Eblings brewery, when a tail, slim
man jumped over fence and stood before hin.
The stranger wore mask, and spoke with an
"Haltp he cried. At the same time another
man jumped over the fence and joined the hrst.
Instead of hating, the young engraYer hurried
on his way The hghwaymen fired shot at him.
The shot missed its aim, and the lad began to run
and a terrific struggle ensued. The lad was fight
ing we'll and had torn the coat sleeve from one OF
his assaiants when two shots were nred al MN In
lie remembered nothing moro. When be reeov.
cred consciousness he found that his pockets had
been rihed. bis watch and money stolen,
with, blood. Feebly he crswlsd Co. INTO mt
Some of the brewers were about tne place ana tnsy
Morrisania Town Hall. There he said bis name
was Charles E. H. Lsngmaack. OF No 9o2 East
One-hundred and sixty fIst-st.. and he had been
shot in the left breast at One-bundred-snd-fft
siIth-st aud Eagle-ave. by two men. hen he sank
down unable to speak for faintness and an am6u-
the Ninety -ninth-st hospital; At the hos;
pital he began to sink rapidly and
Coroner Merklc was called to take his ante-mortem
statement. Coroner Merkle could not come. be-
cause of illness Coroner Levy, however. hastily
dressed himself and hurried to tho hospital. There
DIR. Rowan told him that the lad might die any mo-
II
Coroner looked in the boys face and resolved that
he must be quick j, i he would learn anything.
VERY weak | feel that 1 am dangerously
wounded" replied the lad go
Have you any hope of recoveryf" asked the
- cannot tell. feel very weak-I suffer great
While be spoke his father and sister came into the
room and stood beside him. The young lad turned
his head YEARLY and put out his hand; then he
continued: -.
past 81 was near Eagle-ave.. In One-hundred
and fifty six th-st, in the rear of Ceilings
brewery. | was suddenly attacked-by two men.
They jumped over the fence and commanded me
to halt. did not. One of them fired shot at me ;
the bullet did not hit me. The other man COM
menced fight with me. We oIinched and the man
and felt was wounded near the heart. Both shots
took effect. Then they robbed Inc of NV watch
aud cham and about Sl7 IN money: In the scutiie
tore off the sleeve OF the duser-of one of the
employed by Real & Becker, at Chambers and
alter wasshot imade NY way }o~Ebnngs brewery.
was taken in wagon to the Tbrty-third Pre-
cinct. From there in the ambulance to the hospital
where am now"
ain what language did the men speak ~ asked
the coroner
{" they spoke - English with an Irish accent"
Both men, he said, wore masks. One of them
was short aud stout and wore dark clothes; the
other, who first hailed him. tall man and
slim and wore cheap office coat of light gray
oln rhap mat mad IN hay hpp IN trOm ia
rObber in the struggle, as 1t was afterwards found
by a policeman near the spot where Langmaack
was attacked. The officers also found the
satchel that the lad had with hlm at the time, aud
the revolver with which the robbers did the shoOt-
inx. The satchel had nothing in 1t, but had been
broken open. The revolver a small affair, silver
plated and the handle int aid with mOtheTOf- pearl
1t is of twenty-five calibre and has seven chambers
oaly two of which mad been discharged so thai if
three shots were fired the other robber must also
have had pistol.
Langmaack bears a good reputation, and both the
Coroner and the police satisfied of his truthful
ness His father is also employed at Real &
Becker's. Up 10 last night there had been little
change In the wounded lads condition. He
retained consciousness during yesterday, but
suffered greatly at tunes with pain, and
had not entirely recovered rec from the shock 81:
nipple at the apex of the heart No attempt has
been made to probe for them and as the young
mans health Is good and his constitution vigorous.
it is hoped the wounds will heal if he is kept quiet
Captain Bennett. of the Thirty third Precinct In
stituied strict search as soon as the affair had
been reported. Two arrested and sub
seQuently discharged, as there was nothing TO nd-
cate that they were the guilty persona 1t is
thought by the police that tue assault was pre-
meditated, but that Langmaack was not the pef-
son whom the robbers expected to meet. They
were evidently not expers." said Captain Bennett.
picking up the revolver, cor they would have
carried something better than such baby's toy.
And they must have been drunk to have taken the
chances of numbering man for the lew dollars they
got"