The Jersey City news., 1890-07-30
HER HAIR STOLEN.
Dastard1y Outrage On a
Young Girl in Sixth
Street.
DONE IN THE EARLY EVENING.
The Police Concoct a Cheap Theory
to Escape Searching for the
Villainous DespoiIers.

The hair clipper is abroad in JerseyCitv.
Last night Miss Mamie Gateley, win
some young maiden of sixteen, with q
beautiful braid of hair of a dark chestnut
shade, tied with bow Of
brown ribbon that reached her
supple waist was promenading arm in
arm with her younger sister Katie and
friend, Mrs. Brackner, who lives next
door. They were walking past a little
candy store on Sixth street, few doors
east OF Erie, half a block away from their
nomes- Two young women in steel colored
satin stood at the entrance of a small
two and half foot alley way at the side
OF the candy store. The alleyway allows
the passage of but one person at time.
The street at that hour was almost de-
serted. But by the light of the candy
store Mary Brackner discovered on the
faces of the two young women what to
her seemed a look Of recognition of her
friend Mary.
MY, how those two women did look at
you, Mamie. Do you know thema, asked
the unsuspecting friend.
Don't look back at them," replied
Mamie.
At that instant ali turned at peculiar
noise, seemingly of scuffie
THE ASSAULT
Mamie's younger sister espied a man
with dark mustache and dressed
In dark suit of clothes with
box coat running toward them from
the Erie Street Mission, at Sixth and Erie
streets. Being of tremulous nature,
the frightened girl left her companion
and ran swiftly In the direction of her
home. At the same instant.
however, Mamie felt herself CAUGHT
by the braid of her hair
and was frightened half out Of her wits
at the sensation of cold steel plying about
her neck When she recovered her wits.
half dazed she gazed about her.
The two women in steel colored satin
had disappeared from the alleywav en-
trance, and the man whom she also had
seen come running across the street had
likewise disappeared.
Her friend. Mary Brackner, had fled
precipitately after Mamie's younger
sister.
Suddenly Mamie became conscious of
missing the weight at the back of her
head She clasped both hands thereto in
voluntarily. Half dazed. she looked about
her, and espied portion of her hair lying
on the pavement in the feeble light that
cleaned from the candy store window 1t
was the top braid of her hair, which the
despicable scoundrels in their haste had
dropped to the pavement. The big braid
is stiIl in their possession.
AT MISS GATELRY'S HOME
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter had
difficult time to ascertain the where
abouts of Miss Gateley this morning. as
no address was given on the Police Head
quarters returns, and Captain Christie
Smith, for some reason known only to
himself, refused TO give the desired in-
formation.
However, Miss GateIey was found after
long search, and from her story. cor
roborated by her younger sister and her
friend. May Brackner, the results are
here given.
When the reporter called this afternoon
he found Miss Gateley with a handker-
chief tied about her head as though
she was ashamed to acknowledge her loss
or afraid of taking cold. Her brother, a
brawny lad of nineteen, swears vengeance
on the despoilers of his sisters beauty.
They have no clue, however, to the mis-
creants.
The alleyway runs back some fifty odd
feet. A narrow gate opens into rear
yard. The alleyway was designed for the
express purpose OF access to the yards in
the centre of the block, and has
an indirect communication with a sort of
open lumber yard, the entrance to which
is on Erie street. Here the hair clippers
probably found egress and made their es-
cape.
The police, to save themselves trouble,
pretend to be of the opinion that the girl
mother, who they say objected
Miss Gateley's department since
her loss. her mothers story, the
corroboration by her friend and sister,
and the fact that she is only in possession
of a small part of the severed braid, put
to flight such theory.