The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-29

DARING ROBBERY.
Proprietor Of a Hoboken
Saloon Held, Up By
Masked Men.
RIFLED HIS CASH REGISTER
At the ReVolver's Muzzle Cordes
Gave Up His JeWslry
and Money.
RIFLED HIS CASH REGISTER

a most daring robbery was perpetrateG
N Hoboken last night. saloon was
entered by two masked men. armed ID
the teeth, who held up the proprietor and
Two OF his friends, covered them vitf
their seyoivers while they rihed cask
register and robbed the proprietor or his
scld watch and chain and his pockets
book.
The scene of this exploit pses the sa-
loon Of John z. cordes. No. s57 Newark
street. This is the corner of Newark ard
Jersey City.
About midnight last night cordes was
SUING IA the saloon at Il table with tvs
friends, Thomas AcGrevy and John Ff5 =
gerald. playing cards and chatting To-
Sethef. Suddenly the side door On Crews
s.l1 strest opened and two men. with hand
ksFcnletS drawn over their faces IN reeu-
iar DICK Iugpin style. entered and pre-
ssnteu pistols at Cordes and his friends.
ine latler We're too startled and frighten-
Gu Dy the suddenHeSS OF the thing and
the quickness OF what happened 10 give
any adequate description of the men az
terWItru- one OF the robbers. they say.
was about feet inches IN height ths
wore dark blue 0yepa5ls aud q soft felt
hat The handkerchiefs covered -
races SO that only the eyes could be
seen. The robbers covered ssott.. 8s.f
MS companions with big ugIy-iooItins pis-
tolls, and in stern tones ordered the
startled men to throw up their hands
AT iirst Cordes and his con-
panions thought it vas Joke,
but when ordered q second time. with
a Inenaclng click Of the pistol they cefn-
piiea- The shorter man then went be-
tired e Iorce It open. Failing 10 apsaa
Il quickly enough, the robDer erdexed
Cordes TO do ii. Cordes did so under the
cover OF the taller mans pistol The
ffF4Lf lET
ana cnain, Sl3 from the cash register,
Cordes pocketbook, containing IS. and
some papers,
The robbers then left The short man
left first, while his tall eompanloE, vho
was evidently an expert with tie PISTOL,
held the men al bay with his weap1n-
until the other thief had reached the
.. l. & W. bridge on Grove street Then
3e turned quickly. after Backing to the
aoor and vanished in the darkness The
men in the saloon on recovering froIa
their daze ran TO the deer and saw the
Ies5 thief ion his companion at the
bridge, ard together climb up the D. L.
< ". embankment and walk along the
track towards the Hill. Cordes then ran
20 the stallSn mouse as faSl Is he could
foot It The thieves must have done
their work quickly, Ter L5rdes was n the
station house at ten minutes after twelve
o'clock.
sent out quickly TO Jersey City. and
caused the Delaware LackaTarSla and
Western yards to he searched. Eight men
were arrested n the yards and locked aip--
Officers Peters, who has the post where
the robbery took place hurried around
and found two boys, John Powers. Of No.
Hopkins avenue, Jersey City Heights,
and John Fisher. of No. 179 Oakland ave-
hue. The boys sa d they had seen two
men leave the railroad tracks above he
bridge and then so up Hoboken avenue
until they reached tfe Erie rack and
then take that track toward Jersey City
This IS the only real clue the police have
and outside of this they are completely
in the dark.
The eight men picked up in the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western yards
are only tramps and homeless harmless
T2grants- Cordes saw them this morning
and failed to Identify any of them as be-
ing the two who robbed him. One Of the
men had some tools and another had some
White galze. Captain Hayes thought this
amounted 10 something. But the tools
are ordinary wcrkmen's tools and the
gauZe was used for sore eye, as was ex-
planned in court this morning The men
were discharged for lack cf evidence. The
police have no clues. and are at loss
boldest and most successfully accomplish
ed of the many similar exploits Hhics
have taken place IN Hoboken
James Brewster of No. 2I3 Park ave
nEe. Hoboken. says that JNS3 men answer
ing the description OF those who held
CoTdes up entered Eendscksoass saloon
last night and asked the bartender who
noticed them get off a car at the corner
of Grove and Newark streets He SAYS
they We're the right height one wore
blue overalis and soft hat One. he
says. had dark mustache. They left
the saloon about II 30. They are prob
ably the men who committed the robbery.