The evening world., 1894-09-21
HELD UP A
STREET CAR.
Passengers Plundered by a
Gang Of ToughS on
Eighth Avenue.
NO POLICEMAN WAS IN SIGHT.
Pedestrians Also Compelled to
Stand and Deliver Up
Valuab.es.
IT WAS A REIGN OF R0UGHS.
Only Two Arrests Made After the
Roughs Had Beaten Many
People.
1T WAS A REIGN OF R0UGHS.

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 eli
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 has been robbing pedestrians
who were abroad at night, and their on
slaught on the crowds attracted by
chowder party parades and public gath
erings, have been the subject of story
after story in the newspapers.
An Eighth avenue car was proceeding
uptown on Hudson street at about n.S
o'clock. There were few ladies in
the car and enough men to comfortably
NIL II.
The crowd of thieves. numbering ten
or twelve, had marched down Hudson
street from Thirteenth. Twice they had
shouted Fire" and Police In the
hope of 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 az the horses, HEADS as
the car. and with oaths and shouts ter.
rified the passengers, while they went
through" them. They reaped a rich
books and loose money.
the time. but Officer Forester, OF the
from his post on Greenwich street q
block away, and ran to Hudson
He boarded the rear end OF the car
His appearance put little heart into
some OF the passengers, who had pre-,
ylousIy sat nike people In frances, and and
they began to struggle little with the
Finally one of the passengers, Charles
Rithgebert. steel wire worker, OF u.
had been grabbed, started to help the
policeman.
When the thieves noticed this, and saw
other bluecoats appearing up the street
they left in a hurry. Forester anc
Rethgeleer picked out. one man, who
they were positive. had taken yaluablel
chase, captured him. In spite of thu
efforts of several other officers. the res
OF the gang escaped.
scr Rs iap Himself man as William
twenty-five years, old. Of Sixth aye
nue.. In his pockets at the Charlie
chains st sOa SIs iSabo Snd e
bills
The police Of the Ninth Precinct ar
looking for the names and addresses 9
The Passengers. Brown was taken t
Jefferson Market Court and remandcd.
Prior to attacking the car the rough
created reign of terror by robbing pc
destrians whom they met. They fol
lowed in the wake of the parade OF tn
Union Bottling Association and leVie'
Toll on all whom they met.
one OF the worst sufferers was q.
heghorn, manager for Enrich Brotheri
he was on HIS way home from tn
Theatre with his wife. At the corne
OF Eighth avenue and Twenty-thir
street, they were surrounded by IN
toughs, one OF whom grabbed Leg
horn's watch and started off with IT..
Leghorn gave chase and caught hin
put before he could recover his pror
srty he was hit in the back OF the hea
by another tough.
In the fight that followed half doZe
Ill OF the thugs beat Lighorn unmerciful
III frightened Frenchman ran into a
Ii areaway at Eighth avenue and Twent!
thlri street to escape the gang III
men saw MIN and followed. He wa
dragged out to the street, punched an
thrown back over the railing in fror
or the house.
Miss Mary Mulqueen, OF 50 Wanda
ssoneet, had her pocketbook, containir
M{ Wy snatched from her hand.
rohceman Hunt. who ran to FORE
Ter aid, caught James Gardner, of
East Second street. Gardner had thr
soid c hains In his possession whit
eearehed at the station-house.