New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-27
NEW-JERSEY HIGHWAYMEN.
MEN HELD UP" ALIIOST NIGHTLY IN IHf.
OUTSKIRTS OF NEWARK

THREE WALKING BAKERS FORCED TO pishoDH
AND GIVE UP THEIR cLoTHING-ANoIHiH
MAN BEATEN INTO INsENsIBIIITY AND
RELIEVED OF HIS MONEY AND WATCH
Highway robbery has been of almost nightly
occurrence lately In the outskirts OF Newark anu
not I'll the cases are reported by the police =
score of robberies have been perpetrated on
Elizabcth-ave., in the lower section OF the city
and although two men accused of the roDper'eS
are In jall the outrages continue On FRIDAY
night the scene Of robbery shifted to kearny ana
Harrison where four men were held UP ana
robbed by a gang.
The first victim attacked was August Baker
of No 90 Belmont-ave.. Newark. Baker had been
at work on the meadows and was walking nome
When near the Fourth-st. crossing OF the fe""-
sylvania Railroad IN Harrison he was attacked
by four men who presented revoivers ana ue-
manded his watch and money. BAKER reiuseu u
give UP anything whereupon the robbers Knocked
him down ond kicked him into insensioility.
Then they took his watch and chain ana MS
money and stripped him of his overcoat. The
assailants were gone when Baker recovered MS
senses and he painfully made his way home; -
Arthur Week, r .uben Arsopsky ana -onls ioo-
ling bakers who were going from Newly Ork 10
Philadelphia on foot, were stopped by focr men
armed with revolvers. near the FerhsylVdilid
Railroad station in Kearny and ordered 10 give
up their valuables. The bolVrs trembnfSly COM
Piled and the robbers secured the little money
they possessed Then they were forced TO strip
off all their clothing, leaving only their uhder-
shirts The robbers packed up the clothes, AMI
after threatening the shiverng bakers with their
revolvers against following them. they walked
off In the direction of Jersey city. The bakers
walked a mile and half to the works or the
Atha & Illingworth Steel Company where the
worlinen cared for them and at daylight fur-
nished them with clothing and little money.
The bakers then proceeded to the police court III
Harrison. ar1 told their story.
Baker the first victim OF the highwaynen'
was also IN court and was censured for not i'm
mediatey reporting the attack upon himself
as II was evident the robbers were the same IN
both cases.
chief of Police Murphy Of Jersey City yesterday
sent out the reserves and captured ten tramps
believed to have been concerned in the outrages.
Trey were locked UP in the Third Precinct police
station until last night when Louis Lobng, one
of the men who was held up. Identified EDWARD
Meyers alias Trenton jake and Thomas Gar
lagher as two of the men who had ROBBED hin
The former was wearing his coat. trousers ana
vest Meyers afterward acknowledged the facts'
He said he had been out OF the Essex county
penitentiary only five days. Since then ne had
robbed a man at Princeton Junction, ana also
robbed a boy named Dempsey AT Monmouth
Junction. The man he first robbed tried 10 pro-
tect himself with a revolver. but Meyers knocked
him down and took the revolver from hlm
Meyers has spent nearly all OF his life In JailS,
having been sent TO the Reform School Wnen ne
was twelve years old.