The record-union., 1891-09-14
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
The BoIdest Robbery Ever Commit
ted in this City.
Chris. Engal of suisun ssMugged'' and
Robbed While Looking at K
Street Show-window.

Of all the robberies and cases of CARROT
ing that have occurred in this city in a
quarter of century, that committed on
Saturday afternoon, at Fourth and X
streets, was the most audacious.
On that day Chris. Engal and wife OF
Suisun came to the city and took rooms
| at the Western Hotel. They came to at
tend the State Fair and also to bid adieu
| to sister of Mr.. Engal, who was to have
left on the midnight train for the East.
Mr.. Engal brought with him about $50,
all that was deemed sufficient for the trip
and to purchase an overland ticket for his
sister. Of this sum he had Sl25 in a
pocketbook, the rest being in loose
change.
On Saturday afternoon Engal took a
stroll up the street. and little after
o'clock he found himself in front of the
show-window Of Weinstock, Lubin &
Co., at Fourth and L streets, admiring
the new building and the handsome dis
play in the window. The usual number
OF people were passing and repassing on
the sidewalk, q few feet in the rear OF
where he stood inside the broad arcade
that is such a handsome feature of the
new structure.
! While thus engaged two men moved
up close TO him, but Engal paid no at
tention to them. Suddenly one of them
slapped q hand over EngaPs ewes with
quite sharp blow, which daZed him.
lie threw up his hands in defense of
his face, and Just as he did so the COM
panion OF his assailant slipped hand
into EngaPs pocket, took his port
| monnaie, and slid out upon the sidewalk
where he mingled with the passing
crowd OF pedestrians. His partner, the
man who clapped his hand over EngaPs
| eyes, had also mysteriously disappeared
by the time the latter was able to see, the
| slap he received having for the time be-
ing affected his eyesight.
| Engal fastened up and down the street
in search of the men who had robbed
him, but could not recognize them.
| He returned 10 his home yesterday for
more money, and his sisters departure
was consequently delayed.
+ 1t seems almost incredible that such a
thing could have happened in broad day
| light on the principal street i'll the city,
and in business locality where the side
walks are nearly always crowded with
| people.
PROBABLY THE SAME PAIR
A stranger in this city, while seeing a
! friend off on the Knights Landing train
| last evening at the depot, was jostled by
a couple of men while he was OF the
! platform of the car. When he left the
depot he found he had been robbed OF
| $104
THE POLICE WORRIED.
When a RECORD UNION reporter re-
lated the Engal occurrence to Police Cap
! tain Lee, shortly afterward, that officer
remarked:
81 tell you it is awful the way these
thieves are acting! There was a new in
| fluX Of them to-day, and the officers will
| have their hands full tonight and Sun
! day! Why, there ought to be q police
man to every down town block, and
even then they couldn't keep track of the
! fellows that have come here to plumber
| peopleW
ROBBED ON A STREET CAR.
1t is true that San Francisco and other
places have dumped upon this city the
worst of their criminal classes, who hope
! to get money "by hook or by crook''
during the fair. On Saturday lady
named Mrs. Crowley, who resides in San
Francisco, was returning from the races
| in a crowded street car, when she was
robbed of a gold hunting-case watch and
| fob-chain. She did not discover her loss
until after leaving the car.
| OTHER RoBBERIEs.
Various other cases of robbery were
reported at the police station on Satur-
| day night and Sunday. Salvation Army
members claim to have had two watches
taken from them.
! K. Z. Darlington, an employe at the
railroad shops, reports the loss of watch
and chain, and G. w. Shreve, who has
an exhibit In the Pavilion, claims thai
his showcase has been despoiled of two
! pistols.