The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-28
BIor01E R0BBERs AT LARaE.
No Clew to the Men Who Held Up the Biackmurs-They Promptly Escaped on Their Wheels.

No Clew to the Men Who Held Up the
 Biackmurs-They Promptly Escaped on
 Their Wheels.
 Little Silver N. J., July H.-Lillian and Louise Blackmur were in a highly nervous condition to-day as the result of their experience yesterday afternoon with the two robbers who dragged them from their pony roundabout while they were driving through Conover's woods Their faces did not show any bruises, and they said they had not been hurt
 Lillian Blackmur said to-day: "Af- ter luncheon yesterday afternoon we started for drive to Pleasure bay. We started home by way of Conovers woods, which ordinarily are full of ve- hicles, but 1t so happened yesterday af- ternoon that not a vehicle was on the road. The woods are on one side of the. road, and on the other side are open fields. My sister and I were re- marking how lonely 1t was and what a pleasant drive we were having when we saw a bicycle leaning up against q tree.
 "I thought 1t rather strange, but still we were not alarmed, and no sooner had we seen the bicycle than two men jumped out from the woods. One of them grabbed the pony by the bridle and the other held a pistol up to our faces and grabbed Louise by the throat. She screamed. l tried to prevent him from pulling my sister out of the cart Then I must have tainted, for the first l knew my sister was standing over me.
 q had been dragged from the cart. Although was not bodily hurt, was so faint that I hardly realized what had happened
 Miss Lillian Blackmur had $40 in her purse and had pair of diamond ear- rings. When she recovered her senses the money and both earrings were gone and so were the two robbers. The pony was securely tied to tree by the road. Miss Louise Blackmur had only about $10 in her purse, and that also was taken. She remembers that one of the bicyclists hit her in the face and she felt dizzy when she revived, just as though chloroform had been used.
 
 of 31 Broadway, New York, a brother of the young women, Is living with them in their home at Monmouth park. He was not at home yesterday, and his sisters immediately telegraphed for him and then reported the robbery to the Pleasure Bay police. The young women said to-day that the police seemed to take very little notice of their complaint and advised them to report the matter to the Long Branch police. This MT. Blackmur did upon his return home, but by that time the rob- Der had escaped from tpe neighborhood
 Hendrick Shock, a stage driver who has driven the Blackmur family to va rious points in the vicinity and who lives within 100 yards of their home, says that as the hold-up occurred short ly before 3 o'clock the wheellnen had just about time to catch either of the boats which stop at Pleasure Bay at 3:30 o'clock on their way to New York.
 The men were described to him to- day by the young women. One of them wore a bicycle suit and had a nous tache and whiskers and the other man wore an ordinary blue suit and was clean shaven. Shock. who is on the cupation said that he was positive the men did not belong anywhere in the neighborhood, and he thinks that they were from New York and that they must have taken one of the two after noon boats for the city immediately af- 1 ter the robbery