Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
AN OLD MANS MONEY
Is the Bait Which Lures Three VIII
lains to a McKeesport Home.
HORRIBLE CRUELTY PRACTICED,
Which Nay Result in the Death Of at Least
One of the Victims.
A WOMAN STABBED AND GAGGED IN BED

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM 10 THE DrsPArcH.1
MCKEEsPoRT, March 25.-The attempted
| murder and robbery at the residence OF
Isaac Taylor, on Olive street, at o'clock
this morning, was the most dastardly crime
ever perpetrated in this city, and 1t is safe
to say the murderous brutes would have
been lynched had they been caught. The
city has been systematically patroled by a
full force Of police since, but as yet there is
no clew to the perpetrators
Isaac Taylor, aged So years, one of the
Oldest residents of this city, lives in the
central part of the city. He has been lying
at deaths door for some time. The place
was visited by three well-dressed men
wearing white masks at about o'clock this
morning. The house was entered by side
window, and the first thing known by the
inmates was when Miss Ida Taylor, the
Oldest daughter, aged about 60 years, awoke
to find revolver presented at her head by
tall man with masked face.
She was in the rear room upstairs, and her
sick brother and two sick sisters, Mrs Hat
tie Clark and Mrs. Mary Taylor, were in the
adjoining room.
The men told the women to lie still and
keep quiet or they would kill them. All
were covered with revolvers
"Whst do you want?" asked Ida
"We want the gold in the house or we will
kill you in cold blood" was the reply of
one of the men as he choked the life almost
out Of her, and as he let 60 he stabbed her
in the palm of the left hand with q sharp
chisel as she tried to arise again. Then he
dropped his pistol and knife and choked her
again with one hand, while with the other
he struck her in the face and breast until
she was unconscious. In the meantime the
other man threatened to cut the hearts out
of the old man and the two other daughters
If they made a noise.
teeth out with the gag in doing SO. and,
tying her bleeding hands and her feet with
rope, threw her upon the bed almost dead.
He then broke open bureau drawers and
turned everything upside down. All the
money that was in the house was about IS,
and that was all they secured. The old
gentleman was not touched, but Miss Clark
was beaten, and if they had given an alarm
they would have been murdered.
They Raid the Kitchen Next
Not being able to find anything, the
rufians said they were going down stairs to
get something to eat, and that if any of the
people moved before they returned they
would cut all their throats. They went to
the cupboard down stairs, and while eating
Lida managed to get the gag off,
dragged herself to a window and gave the
alarm, at which the men escaped by the
way they entered.
The men called themselves "White Caps z"
They knew Mr.. Taylor has had gold in the
house, and the one who beat Ida tried to
stab her in the heart three times. All this
happened at an hour very close to daylight.
The old gentleman is now lying in critical
condition.
The city has been in a wild state of ex-
citement all day, and everything that can
be done in the way of capturing the rascals
is being done. -Four men were arrested on
suspicion, but were released, as there was
nothing against them to create suspicion.
Mrs. Clark and Lida Taylor are ill, and the
shock is telling seriously on them.
Mr.. Taylor few years since sold his
property for $40, 500. Recently he received
the last payment of 81, 800 in gold, but i'm
mediately put it in the bank. It is thought
the fiends were under the impression that
the money was still in the house.