New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10
GAGGED BY A ROBBER.
DARING DEED IN A BROADWAY APARTMENT.

MISS HARvEY's ADvENTURE-THE VILLAIN IhAIr|D
BY THE ICE.
The largo fve-storied brick building at Thirty
second-st. and Broadway is known as the sloane
Flats. The ground floor facing on broadway IN
cludes Nos. 2GO, 1.2G2 and 1921 and Is occupi'u
by George Sloane, dealer IN fancy goods'Who "''o
owns the building. The entrance to the apartue"'s
is at No 40 West Thirty -second-st. In the rear VI
the bnildinc is a stairway extending to the upper
floors George II. Sloane, a son OF george 0'o'no
has apartments on the fourth floor IN ABOUT 'le
middle Of the building. Through the centre OIL
each floor runs a broad hallway, east ana "cS,
The drawinc-rooms and parlors are on the Sou'n
side of the hallway, with windows on lnr'|
oud-st and the kitchen, dining-room ana SieeP'"S
apartments on the north side The 5 servants oeu
rooms are on the top floor
George H. SlOancs family consisted OF HlihSo'i'
his wife and daughter two-and-a-naH year o','
and his wife's sister Miss Maggie Har'el' VIM
about eighteen years of age. Gerlruue l. n'"'
Hcht mulatto eighteen years old, has been III the
emplov of the family as chambermald Tor the i'S'
three months. She was hired from an
intelligence Office, and was Iesiiu'u
rs an honest and industrious eHi
Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Sloane Vlslted one
of their friends leaving Miss Harvey at nome III
oLor,o of fine liz le qir Gretrude L. Ash was also
1
at balf-nost 10 o'clock with her niece. Tier Deu-
go - off the nublic hallway with another room
intervening between 1t and the dInlng-r"oM 'ne
windows of which open on the platform oI
q 6reescone In the northeast corner
of Miss Harvey's room is a large closet she nau
hardly covered herself and the child with the bed
clothes when the closet door was pusneu
omen making noise which attracted her attention.
She hardly had time to turn her head before ne
,,o snrang from the closet and seizlng her by the
throat forced her head back upon the ploW' n
child began to cry and the negro thIeaIeneu ~ NJ
tifMiss Harvey didnot quiet IT, She begged the emu
TO be quiet and implored the negro not 10 lJue
bor He asked if Mr.. and Mrs. Sloane were IL the
next room. and she replied that they were not lie
then commanded her to show him where the money
vos She answered that she did not know. lie
demanded the keys. She answered that she ne i'N'i
b.d +ba7n nor knew where they were kept,
He then stuffed handkerchief into her mouth ana
,lacod over il q towel. which he tied firmly al tue
hack of her head Dagrlng her ont OF pea uc
+lrev her violently 10 the floor and bound
~ Lood. ot the wrists behind her back
and commanded her not TO attempt to make an oul-
r,ra,toripu TO come back and Xii
b.r if she did. The child remained
,,,io+ in the meantime, being 700 fright
cued 70 CRY. The negro then ransacked the
rooms at his leisure Miss Harvey soon lo-' coz
sciousncss.
was about 1880 when Mr.. and Mrs. sloane
returned home. A. they entered the halfway run
ming through the apartments on the nor1A sue vi
rbe Aat Mrs sloane notices one of her SeaISkln
sacoues living on the carpet. she suspe''eu 'h"'
there was something wrong and running INTO the
d,uinp-room was thundcrstruck to find that al the
silv4ryyare or the sldeboard had been removed Inc
window of +le dlning-room was open. Mr.. Sloane
semi one of the members of the household 10 ine
Tbirtietb street Police station 10 give the news OF
the burglary. A minute later Miss Harvey was
discovered unconscious the iioorot her bedroom
bound and gagged. A physician was summoned
and restoratves were applied TO the UNCONSCIOUS
Woman. She recovered after time ana was able
10 tell the story as above detailed
If was about midnight when Captain Williams
and Detectives Price and Dunlap reached the house
Miss Harvey had then recovered Detective
Prices attention was first attsacted to the open
window in the dining-rOom He stepped through
If 10 the platform OF the fTe-escape and there
fonnl pillow slip filed with silverware worth
obort $500 The trap in the platform
was fastened and could not be lifted.
The detective climbed MP the fre-escaPe. pressed
M the trap opposite the windows on the top moor
and landed right in front of the window OF the
room occupied by the servant Gertrude l." ASH.
The window was partly open. Price pushed II up
and entered He noticed suspicious movement
under the servants bed and looking beneath II
sav n lirht-colored negro. whom he took IN
custody Ia the hallway he tried
to break away. and the detective
touDd II necessary 10 strike him several blows on
fine head with a mace 10 make him dOclie. He
was bandcufed and sent in custody TO the
Twentv-ninth Precinct Police station.
The officers learned that the negro, whose name
+, Jesse Williams, age tweuty-oue. has been re-
carded among the cOiored people engaged 10
the chambeunad ~ whose room he had been
concealed and fed since wednesday last.
Concluding from thls that Gertrude l.. Ash was
voluntary accomplish, they arrested her and sent
her TO the station in the charge OF TWO UNI
formed men. she denied acquaintance
with Williams and asserted that
she was ignorant Of ms presence IN the house.
The neighb ors had. however. noticed her on raur-
dav pouring not wafer the tran of the hre-escape
opposite the window of her room. The trap was
frozen and the ice had 10 be melted before II could
Ice opened. The frozen trap opposite the WIN
dow of the diDiug-room defeated Williams
scheme of escape and compelled him to take
refuge in the servants ROOM
The prisoner Williams is a stranger 10 the police
of the Twenty-ninth Protmct. although he has
lived there nearly all his life He claims to he
cOachman by occupation. His mother Is Janltress
Ofthe RiveTview Flat AT Nlnety-sGth-st and Tenth
ave.
A TRIBUNE reporter called az the Sloane build
ing last evening, but could learn nothing from the
inmates except that Miss Harvey had been suffer
ing all day from nervous prOstTatIOn. Both
Wiliams aud the chambeTmaId are held a
char ge Of burglary and felonlOus assault
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