The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-06
THREE men IN A BUGGY,
They Hold Up Mrs. Momm,
JanitresS of the Edison
Public School.
THE WRONG PACKAGE STOLEN.
She Had Drawn From the City
Treasurer the Teachers
Monthly Salaries.

Mrs. Momm, 1913 Nebraska street, is the
| janitress of the Edison School on Hill and
| Church streets, and by her presence Of
| mind yesterday she saved the monthly
| salaries of teachers of that school, amount
| ing to nearly $500.
The teachers have been in the habit Of
giving Mrs. Momm their salary warrants
and letting her take them to the City
Treasurer to be cashed. Yesterday morn
ing she went as usual with the warrants to
the Treasurer's Office, and when she got
the money she put it in little bag, which
she placed for safety in the bosom of her
dress.
After leaving the Treasurer's office she
went to the Office of the Board of Educa-
ton and obtained from the secretary a
package of tickets for the admission of the
school children to the Mechanics Fair.
She carried this package in her hand.
She took Larkin-street car and trans
ferred at Mission street to the electricians.
At Twenty-second street she got another
transfer and left the Twenty-second-str
car at Chattanooga street, where the car
turns. This was about o'clock.
She had noticed that three men in q
buggy had followed the cars on which she
was riding, but her suspicious were not
aroused till she saw them stop at Chatta-
nooga street, when she left the car. She
walked briskly toward Church street, and
when near the corner two of the men in the
buggy jumped out and ran toward her.
Before she had time to scream one of them
grasped her around the waist, placed his
other hand over her mouth and threw her
heavily against the wall of house.
keep quiet" said the robber, menac-
ingly, cor we will blow your head off. %
The other robber grabbed hold of the pack
age containing the fair tickets. Mrs.
Momm OWNED instantly that they were
after the money and imagined it was in
the package, so to carry out the impression
she chung desperately to the package. The
robber tugged at it and finally she let go
her hold. The robbers promptly jumped
into the buggy and drove away at a break
neck speed down Twenty-second street to
Dolores, where the buggy was lost to sight.
Mrs. Momm, although almost exhausted
from her struggle with the robbers, ran to-
ward the school and breathlessly told the
principal of her experience, at the same
time pulling the bag with the money out
of her bosom. The reaction was almost too
much for her, and she sank into chair
and nearly went off in a dead faint.
AS soon as she recovered she notified
police headquarters of the robbery, and
Detectives Dillon and Crockett were de-
tailed on the case, They found that the
three men had evidently known that Mrs.
Momm was to draw the money yesterday,
as they were seen haunting the corner of
Church and Twenty-second streets for two
or three hours, till Mrs. Momm made her
appearance TO go TO the City Hall. They
| followed her in the buggy to the hall and
back to where the robbery was committed.
The detectives have not been able to get
| an accurate description of the three men.
Mrs. Momm was so excited that she could
not give any description of them. Several
| people who saw them agree that they were
all young men, about "a years of age, but
| they differ in other things. Some say that
one of them had mustache, but others
say they were all clean-shaven. Every
effort will be made to find them, as it was
one of the boldest daylight robberies
known to the police.