The evening world., 1893-12-04
FOOTP ADS GROW BOLD
Three Young Women Attacked Near
Fifth Avenue.
ONE OF THEM ROBBED OF HER PURSE
BEFORE HELP CANE.
COLD WEATHER MAKES HIGHwAYMEN.

One Of the prcttlest g,rls who attend
the night class in stcnography. witch
meets five nights out of seves In the
Mechanics Library building in sixteenth
street, between Fifth venue and Broad
way, IL Miss Violet Scabrook. Miss
Seabrook is petite and plump. with curly
brown hair and big brown eyes. She IL
seventeen years old. but the top of her
head would not reach to your chin II
YOU were to stand beside her. She lives
with her parents at No. iS West Sixty
sixth street. Miss Scahrook's closest
friends are two young girls. named Miss
Simpson and Miss Sewall. They, too,
attend the class In stcnography. and live
in the same block with Miss Scabrouk.
Last Saturday night. at an hour when
the streets were not deserted by pco-
pie. and when the police are supposed to
be m artive duty. these three girls were
assaulted and one Of them was robbed.
and the thieves escaped long before "A
policeman could he found to hear that
anything had happened.
The scene Of the outrage was in six
tecnth street. betty "en Fifth and sixth
avenues. The thienes evidently had no
fear of being indicated by the policeman
supposed to he near at hand The three
young girls left the Mechanics Library
Building at oi5 r. NJ. on saturday. Each
of them carried her bundle of books and
papers. They started west in Sixteenth
stree: towards Sixth avenue. where they
were going to take the elevated at Eight
zenith street. Miss Sewali was on the
outside. Miss Simpson in the middle and
Miss Seabrook on the inside. They
walked or the downtown side of the
street.
The night was cold and they walked
rapidly. As they neHrcd 81. Francis
NaNier's church they noticed two men
hurrying along ahead of them. The two
men occasionally looked back. at the
girls, and then, glanced up and down tie
street. one of them was a negro. II,
was big and hr1ad-shouldered and wore n
short tan oyercoat. dark. trousers and
black hat. lie was very black. and his
nose was spread out on his face. His
compani, n was a short, thickset white
man. wearing "A black ovorcoat and trou.
sers aud a brown mustachc.
leaned against the iron fence between
the entrances to st. Francis %avier's
Church. Their backs were towards the
girls. As the three girls passed them the
Seabrook by the shoulders. His com
panion tried to seize Miss Sewall and
Miss simpson. The girls screamed,
shut up" said the negro. We'll
spoke he fumbled about the bundle OF
books Miss seabrook carried;
Where's your p~pcke,book% he de.
bundle. showing the purse fastened with
the books by a rubber Rand. The negro
grabbed IL n turned to his companion
The screams Of the girls drew severa
Come on" said the negro, with al
oath, TO his companion, and they raj
through Sixteenth street and disappeared
I llDWn Y ven
a crowd soon collected. and several me,
started after the thieves. No policeman
put IN an appesranSe; The three girl
they reached Eighteenth street and Slxtl
and told him OF the robbery.
Too, bad he said to Miss Seabrook
Don't blame the policeman there, though
He was around about ten minutes befor,
you We're robbed"
No report OF the robbery was made a
the West Thirtieth street station-hous
a report might nccessitate an eXplana
ton of the policeman's whereabouts a
the time OF the robbery. and explanation
are sometimes hard to make.
There are a good many streets In tn,
city where the light is poorer, train
lighter and conditions generally, more ia
1T would not be a bad idea" said
citizen yesterday. "if the police would US
q little extra diligence in such localitie
these winter nights. Highway robberle
are becoming too numerous"
Thomas Mcdonald, aged twenty-fouI
of No. IS Watt street, was arrested Sat
urday night for snatching, a horsesho
diamond pin from James McGill, of Nc
300 Spring street When Mcdonald wa
searched in the Mercer street police sta
ton by Policeman Joseph Shook. VIII
found In his possession. AS McGill faile
to appear in court yesterday mornin
against Mcdonald, Justice Koch he'll
him on a charge Of carrying burglar
tools