Bridgeton pioneer., 1895-03-28
MURDEROUS ASSAULT
AND ROBBERY.

While the Fiends Make Their
Escape After Nearly Murder
ing the Women Whom They
Robbed.
A most daring and outrageous rob-
berry occurred in Lower HopewelI last
Monday evening between eight and
ten o'clock.
Two masked men entered tho resi-
dence Of Misses Eliza and Martha
Brown, and choking and beating them
almost to insensibility, robbed them
of all the money about the house.
The two sisters, who are elderly
maiden ladies, live alone on their farm
In Lower Hopewell. near the old red
school house; their nephew, Edward
Brown, and other neighbors, live but
stones throw away, and they are
neither isolated nor lonely.
Monday night shortly after $50,
as they were about preparing to retire,
they heard rapping at the door,
which they had already locked and
bolted.
Supposing 1t was some neighbor
Miss Eliza unbolted and opened the
door.
She had hardly begun to swing it
ajar when two masked men rushed in;
both the women were seized and told
to make no outcry, but to give up
their money.
The ladies were shocked with fright
but attempted to cry out and did SO
as much as they could, but they were
seized by the heads and their voices
smothered.
They were told to give up their
money; Miss Eliza said she had only
few dollars In her caba which she
would give them If they would spare
her life. Fer caba contained $40. Miss
Martha gave up her pocket book
which Col 5ained small sum of money,
but she did not know how much,
Miss Martha, being the younger and
more Vigorous of the two, continued
to resist the murdorous Williams, and to
cry out as much as possible. The fell
low who held her, beat her over the
head with revolver, cutting her face
and head In a terrible manner, and
choking her terribly.
Miss Eliza was bruised and beaten.
her head and face slso badly bruised
up, but not so badly as was her sister.
When the sisters were beaten almost
to insensibility, the scoundrels begun
their search for money through the
house. Drawers. cupboards, bureaux
and desks were broken open and their
contents turned out.
The whole house was ransacked, one
man keeping guard while the other
did the searching, but no more money
was found, from the fact that the Ia.
dies keep but little cash about the
house. keeping 1t in bank instead.
When the fellows left the house they
warned the ladies not to leave the
house during the night, FOR If they
stepped outside the door they would
be shot, for one they said, would re-
main near the house till daylight.
The poor women spent wretched
night, and when Mrs. Isaac w. Elwell
and others went there the next morn.
the two ladies were hardly recogniz-
able. They were more dead than
alive and covered with blood, Miss
Martha especially; she was the worst
cut and bruised of the two, but Miss
Eliza being much older, was the worse
pros trated.
The ladies are possibly IS and rs
years of age, respectively, and are
most highly esteemed ladies, not only
in their own locality but In this city,
where they are very we'll known and
connected with our best families.
They said the men wore white masks
and their hsnds were blackened; they
believed they were white men.
Prosecutor Logue was apprized of
the robbery early this morning, and
has put the laws machinery In opera.
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