New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-19
ACTUAL FACTS.

December ALL four
highwaymen were promptly
arrested by the police and
held for trial.
December 1.-The police
raw the wagon-load Of fur
being driven of. made
chase Immediately. recov-
cred the furs and restored
them TO the owners.
December "a fake.
Nothing Of the kind hap
rened.
December "a n ot h r.
fake. There was no hold-up
AZ all. A burglar did enter
the saloon. bu, was prompt
" captured by the police.
was fully Identified. and is
lION " d4ki4lk II Adl.
December 2.-True! The
robbery" consisted Of two
boxes Of cigars. stolen by n
neak thief.
December 3.-The work Of
two sneak thieves. who were
arrested on January 20. and
were held for the robberies.
December A fake. on
investigation II appeared
that he was neither robbed
nor sandbagged.
December J.-He was ar
rested by the police before
he went two blocks; the sill
verware consisted OF one
Jug. which was recovered
and restored. He was ar
raigned. and is under 500
bail 10 await trial.
December 6.-The trouble
took place In Central Park.
with which the police have
no more to do than they
have with the District Of
Columbia.
December "A pure fake.
DR.. Duncan Neil was found
drunk and insensible by a
policeman. was arrested and
brought 10 the siatiOn-hOuse;
the next day he was fined
81 by Magistrate Sinms.
Neither to the Police Mag
is,rate nor TO the police did
he claim that he had been
assaulted or robbed.
December "a pure fake.
H was under the influence
Of liquor at the time and
was never assaulted: lie
thought he lost his diamond
pin sCrnewhere. but did not
know where. He never re
ported the case 10 the pO-
lice.
December IA pure fake.
The salOOnkeeper on that
day reported TO the police
that he thought that some
men. whom he did not know.
70. whom he was making
/ change. cheated him out u
several dollars. There was
no hcldup. no robbery Of
any kind; simply a suspicion
by the salo-onk eeper that he
rad been cheated while maxi
ing change.
December 1G.-While drunk
he got into a quarrel with a
stranger. who struck him
with an umbrella. He
thought he had been robbed
Of his watch. but it turned
out 70 be in the possession Of
his sister.
December i6.-Roth his
assailants were promptly ar
rested. tried. and convicted.
December 1s.-He was in
toNicated and went on a
spree with some strangers,
with whom he quarrelled as
70 who should furnish the
next can Of beer. He was
not robbed; he was not beaten
into insensibility. He was
taken TO the hospital for al
cohoiisrn. His assailant was
arrested. but he declined TO
prosecute. explaining that IL
was only a drunken brawl.
Absolute fake. After care
ful investigation, IL was
found that the alleged at
tack was purely mythical.
December l9.-Absolute
fake. Hartman said he
ns'er knew anything about
the hold-up and robbery
uni. he saw 1t In The
World" No such robbery
occurred.
December 2J.-Absolute
fake. O'Hara was at his
home that night. and was
not robbed that night Or any
other night.
December %. - Express
wagon was Immediately re-
covered by the police with
It's contents uninjured AMI
restored to It's owners.
December 2G.-I}urglars
fed. being scared away by
police.
December PA fake. No
such robbery reported at the
stati3n-house.
December 27.-Burglars
were caught and are now
serving their sentences.
December 27.-Burglars
were caught: the property
recovered. The cases are
now pending.
December 27.-No chloro-
form was used at all. The
robbery" took place on the
ground nat, all the people
In the room had been on a
spree and got very drunk.
and certain OF the party who
were less drunk than the
others took some money
from them-how much II is
not known. IL was simply
the aftermath Of "a drunken
orgy.
December 27.-The bur-
glars were arrested by an
unusual piece Of clever de-
tective work.
January "A fake. Fack-
len had been drunk. When
he got home he discovered
That he had lost his dia-
'nond stud. He was never
assaulted, and had not the
slightest recollection OF how