The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-30
THEIR SAYINGS STOLEN.
Sad Loss of a Thrifty
Young Couple in West
Bergen.
DONE AT A CHRISTENING PARTY.
be Loss is s54O--Did a Guest or a
Sneak Thief Do 1t?

There were mirth and music.in MI. Pat
ick Donohue's little home, on Culver
venue. West Bergen, Sunday evening;
pr few moments there was wailing
I'D gnashing of teeth the following
horning.
Mr.. Donohue is one of those frugal, in
Iustrious mechanics who earn good
wages. and his amiable and pretty young
kife knows how to save them.
But But she hungling job of a cabinet
haker has thwarted and nullified the
lforts of frugal Mrs Donohue to adorn
lor the present the little home in which
lhe has proudly reigned since her union
kith Mr.. Donohue a year or two ago.
The couple had saved over $500, which
fTas securely slowed away In a bureau
hrswer in their bedroom
Advantage was taken of christening
earty at their home on Sunday evening.
by some mean miscreant The money
rs poor as when they started their matri-
nonial partnership.
! THE PARTY.
4 Mr.. Donohue works in the steel forges
just across the vacant lots from his home.
lHe is smith and q skilfull mechanic.
|He is also very popular among his fellow
workers. Recently little eherub came
ito add TO the happiness of himself and his
wife. 1t was christened on Sunday and
all the friends OF the couple gathered to
offer their Congratulations.
The little house was full of people all
the afternoon and evening. Mr.. Donohoe
Iand his friends sat in the basement drink
fng glass OF beer in the afternoon while
the ladies upstairs admired the baby
nd Io foa ita
Later the two contingents united for sup
per, and then all passed a couple of hours
together singing and chatting.
All this time some of the visitors were
moving about the house, and, OF course.
from time to time the room where the
money was kept was visited.
A STARTLING DISCOVERY.
The party dispersed without any note
worthy occurrence, and next morning
Mr.. Donohue went to his work without
suspecting anything wrong. Later in
the morning, however, Mrs. Donohue
went to the drawer where the money
ought TO be.
IL was gone.
At first she was only surprised, thinking
she had inadvertently put it somewhere
else. She began hasty search, but as
she Went from place to place and found no
trace of the money, she became more and
more alarmed. 1t had been all right on
Saturday when she took from it enough
to provide for the Sunday feast; but now
it was gone olutely vanished.
When she recovered from the first
shock OF the discovery, Enc put on her
hat and hastened to inform her husband.
He in turn notified the police, who prom
ised to make a thorough investigation.
The Donohues were able to
give them little clue to work
on. They have no reason
to suspect any of their guests, and yet the
fact that the whole house was open to
them, while it afforded opportunity to
any unscrupulous person, makes it hard
to see how a thief from outside could
have escaped detection The police have
good hopes of getting at something defn-
lite in a day or TWO.
The exact sum taken was in the neigh
borhood of $40. 1t was in bills OF various
denominations, from $40 down. The
young couple have the sympathy of all
their friends, who feel deeply the injury
done them in the loss OF over a years
nr0f1fa from, THAR ind1Is stru and thrift