The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-21
Pedestrians Also Compelled to
Stand and Deliver Up
Valuab..es. -..
1T WAS A REIGN OF R0UGHS
Only Two Arrests Made After tho
Roushs HAD Beaten Many
People.

A gang of white and colored toughs.
who have recently made life miserable
for the jewellers in upper Hudson
street and the vicinity. capped the cli-
max of their depredations last night
when they held up an Eighth Avenue
horse car and went through" the pas
sengers in Western style.
The gang have been robbing pedestrians
who were abroad at night, and their on.
slaughts on the crowds attracted by
chowder party parades and public gath
erlngs have been the subject of story
after story In the newspapers.
An Eighth avenue car was proceeding
uptown on Hudson street at about liz
o'clock. There were few ladies' In
the car and enough men to comfortably
fill 1t.
The crowd of thieves, numbering ten
or twelve. had marched down Hudson
street from Thirteenth. Twice they had
shouted Fret and Police!" in the
hope or attracting a crowd. but Ninth
Ward residents have grown careful in
the last two months. and scarcely any
one paid heed to the calls.
At Bank street. they met the car, Two
OF them stopped at the horses heads
and held them, while the rest boarded
rlfed the passengers, while they went
through" them. They reaped rich
harvest % Of wat Watches jewelry. pocket
There was no policeman in sight at
the time. but Officer Forester, Of the
Charles street station. heard the noise
from his post on Greenwich street
He boarded the rear end of the car,
whistling for aid at the same time.
His appearance put a little heart into
some of the passengers, who had pre-
viously sat like people In frances. and
they began to struggle little with the
busy robbers.
Rithgeber, a steel wire worker, of 1ez
Ninth avenue, whose watch and chain
had been grabbed, started to help the
policeman.
When the thieves noticed this, and saw
other bluecoats appearing up the street,
they left in hurry. Forester and
Rlthbeber picked out one man, who,
they were positive, had taken valuables
from passengers, and after a stubborn
chase captured him. In spite of the
Efforts of several other officers. the rest
The captured man. who is a negro. de-
scribed himself as William Brown.
twenty-five years, old. of 8 Sixth ave-
nue.. In his pockets. at the Charles
bills.
looking for the names and addresses Of
the passengers. Brown was taken to
Jefferson Market Court and remanded.
Prior TO attacking the car the roughs
created reign of terror by robbing pc
destrians whom they met. They fol-
lowed in the wake OF the parade of the
Union Bottling Association and levied
toll on all whom they met.
one of the worst sufferers was G. r.
LeghOrn. manager for Enrich Brothers.
He was on his way home from the
theatre with his wife. At the corner
OF Eighth avenue and Twenty-third
street they were surrounded by the
roughs. one OF whom grabbed Leg
horns watch and started off with 1t.
Leghorn gave chase and caught him;
but before he could recover his prop
erty he was hit in the back of the head
by another tough.
In the fight that followed half a dozen
OF the thugs beat Leghorn numerically.
A frightened Frenchman ran into an
areaway at Eighth avenue and Twenty
third street to escape the gang. The
men saw him and followed. He was
dragged out to the street. punched and
thrown back over the railing in front
of the house.
Miss Mary Mulqueen, of IS Vandam
street, had her pocketbook. containing
$50 snatChed from her hand.
Policeman Hunt. who ran to Forces
ter's aid. caught James Gardner. of $50
East Second street. Gardner had three
gold chains in his possession when
searched at the station-house.