The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-12
A PARK ROW ROBBER FIVE.
BEWARE OF SMALL MICHAEI TEL
LURI'S GANG IF YOU'RE WISE.

| DAVAHE OF bmALb MtChAHb 1bL-
| LURIS GANG IF YOU'RE WISE.
| Cherubic Leader Seems to he About IL
Years Old-HiRhway Robbery IL Their
| Strong Hold, but Any Mischief VIII Do
| Try to Rob an interviewing Reporter.
1t took the bold bandit. Michael Tellurl, and
| his robber crew Just five minutes late yester.
| day afternoon to put Park row. between Chat
ham Square and the bridge. into a Torment
that lasted an hour. Michael is about II years
old. He is as brown as dark mulatto and
wears, this weather. q brown check shirt
waist and spuff-coored trousers. He 10 I'M
incumbered by hat underclothinR or shoes.
| He has a wide. innocent stare and a cunning
| little grin that are most attractive. But IL you
| see a boy OF this description in company with
| two smaller boys wearing white shirts and
| long blue overalls held up By red suspsnders.
| and two bigger boys. ono of',whom wears q
red shirt and tho other blue and both In
ragged knlckerbockers. hold on to your watch
and your change pocket and prepare to see
! things happen
| 1t was quarter to O'Clock when Sun re-
| porter stumbled on the gang as he turned into
| Park row from Mulberry street. They were
wandering along in a semcircle OF which the
| brown shirtsd Michael was the centre. CAB
| bling Italian at him from one side and Chat
| ham Square English at him from the other.
| He Rabbed back to them. oftenest In Italian.
| but sometimes in German and English. In tho
| doorway Of n vacant store a boy about az
! large as the biggest Of the stood showing u
| cheap iackknife to two small girls and q still
| smaller boy. without any apparent signal or
prsarIangement. tho Five dashed In upon this
group Michael grabbed the owner OF the
knife around tho waist. and slammed him
against the.door. Tho two In overalls tipped
| over the little girls and the baby boy The
| other two jumped upon the victim when he
| was down.
Quicker than It has taken to tell this. the
| brown shirt OF Michael was streaking It out
! across the torn-up car tracks In the middle OF
the street. In his hand was the small boys
knife. The robbed ones mother. with a baby
| In her arms. the victim himself and one or two
big boys loalnR in the doors OF the nearby sa-
looms gave chase. Mchael'do back. met
the victim. dealt him a swinging blow IN the
| mouth that knocked him into the gutter and
| galloped down the street. shouting:with glee.
Out from Paul Salvin's store at Baxter street
ran a pullsr.in. hatless and collarless. his long
black hair waving and his eyes blazing with
| rage. He chased Michael over the tracks and
back almost to Pearl street and gained ground.
| too. until an innocent-lookine little boy in
blue ovsralls and awhile shirt got in his way
and tripped him ur. The puller-in came back
| W tHn stOI0. LILO uusl run nlS kuocb
and elbows and swearing Yiddish oaths.
What were You Gha.ing The Kid for!" ASKED ed
which the folled one replied that he couldn't
stand:still and see Jew robbed BY Dago OF
The Kid that lost the knife wasn't a Jew"
said5rthe other. pulsr-in "He was "a Daeo.
Then the black haired man went back to
make trouble:because the victim OF the thieves
let himself be robbed SO easily. -
| The reporter walked Half between
Pearl and Duane streets Is the World Hotel,
Of G the door two e te srs had
Lemonade stand. They had covered two soap
boxes wth clean white paper and trimmed The
| corners with paper flowers. Along the edge nf
the boI;were six elssses Of lemonade with lots
s resb 1n p se T bsa little san vh
frocks and they were perfectly satisfied with
| themselves.
| lhem they were sitting in the black. Shiny mud
| Of the Park row cobhe stones with their tiaxen
" BOYS ah 10y "h
boys were gulping the Lemonade so fast that It
out s the ss of 5h t6. Tho
scream. Five lemonade glasses descended to
the Sidewalk with crash and the ringing clat-
laughing, mockinsiy: The ittle girls helped
shGulders twi,ching trottsd i.to the hotel to
telTtheir mother; ANA
s;e@s "7@ his SFsT fs%Ssa I'M saer
gentleman with a bundle of shallow jewellers
t"Ss e'd F54 fsS :Efs
went out into the street and quarrelled vic.
nty KIN Sn9taer In trent h or the
even, the: reporter, .wh5 was following and
watching, chad any idea that an attack was
gave the Jewel boxes terrias; sideviss kick.
The bundle swung forward, the boxes :yere
| Tho four in tho street had stopped quarreling
| for the moment and were crouching EXPECT
hn aid and as
nothing had happsned. The elderly man
whirled around and saw very small. rather
"0h, hell" and backed OF into the crowd.
toward creek With = car: taII Of piums IL
nust have had eyes in the hack Of bis head
hey reaeh dn him. he srsE
in Chambers street, Near City Hall place five
onr sss we're tser knees hrowns
~ G ssH' &5ss banks With 'hF
The crap players rolled, scram BLEED and ran
II, all directions. None stopped to look, back;
grabbed for the pennies on the sidewalk. They
were counting up the spells when the reporter
.""Ii give YOU a cent said he to the brown
Gns % t.. II. "s ETnr
hand h hG 'f the pr pro S Cent %nether
grabbed the other hand. They hung down
| with all their weight. and the Overhllcd Dreth-
rem did their best to clean out the, 'cnange
| pock OF from which the protTered cor t had been
taken. They failed only because there were
no more coins there. The reporter threw
them off and went his way.
Half wav across City Hall Park boys voice.
innocent as that OF tho pride Of a country
SUNDAY school. spoke up beside him.
Say. mister" it satd:pleadnRly my name
is Michael Telluri. IL wasn't me that WAS try =
ing to rob YOU mister. 1t was them bad boys.
don't have nothing to do with than. Please.
mister can l have the cent now?"
He DROVE OFF WITH TIE CAR
william Fuller After Merry Night Finds