The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-04

Two Lny in Wait for Him in North
-Decoyed Into a Lonely Road by a
Third Member of the Gang who Told
Plausible story-No Arrests Yet
Made
Max Levin Of No. Is Dow street, q
salesman for the Singer Machine COM
pany, went out to North Haven to de-
liver a sewing machine Saturday af-
ternoon and on his return to the COM
pany's store in this city late Saturday
afternoon he was very much excited
and told a remarkable story of being
held up in broad daylight somewhere
this side of North Haven center. Levin
said that he had delivered a machine
and received part pay for it and was
on the way back to the city, He said
that he had reached lonely part of
the road when he met man whom he
thought was an Italian and who stop
ped him and told him that he knew of
a family to whom a machine could be
sold.
Levin with an eye for business, as all
machine agents have, was quick to
grasp the opportunity and asked where
the family lived. The stranger offered
to show him the house and jumped on
the rear of the wagon and directed Levin
which way to drive. The route to the
house of the alleged family wanting a
machine lay along the road on which
Levin was driving until a piece of
woods was reached. In this woods an
old narrow road branched off the main
road and the stranger told Levin to
drive out the woods road, saying that
the house was just through the woods
Levin accordingly did as directed and
turned his horse to one side into the
old road. He drove along until the road
was apparently blocked with brush and
he then turned to get directions from
the stranger who, he supposed, was rid
ing on the rear of the wagon. AS he
looked around he saw that his guide was
gone and at the same time two men
with axes in their hands stepped in
front of the horse and ordered him to
throw up his hands. Taken by sur
prise Levin did as directed One of the
road agents then took the horse by the
bride while the other jumped into the
wagon and ordered Levin to turn over
any cash or valuables which he might
have about his person. Levin protested
that he had no money and at that the
highwayman in the wagon grabbed him
by the coat, while the one who had
been standing at the horses head step
ped quickly up to the wagon and raised
his axe in a menacing way at Levin as
a persuader for him to keep still and
make no resistance. The one in the
wagon then threw back each side of
Levins' coat, opening in front, and went
through each inside pocket
In one pocket he found pocket bill
book and taking that out he took it's
contents, $14, and then throwing the
book into the bottom Of the wagon he
jumped out and ran quickly into the
woods at the side Of the old road, close
~ followed by the other man. Levin
pinched himself to see if he was awake
and finally gathering his wits together
he managed to turn his horse around |
and drove to the city as fast as he
could. He told his story at the COM |
store and the North Haven au-
thorities We're notified, but no arrests
had yet been made last evening.
Levin says that the man who first |
met him and told him of someone want |
ing to buy a machine was not one of |
the pair who held him up. He thinks |
that the three We're working together
and that the man he first met steered
him into the woods road, where the
other two were lying in wait for him.
He thinks that all three were Italians
and says that he thinks they saw him
deliver the machine and thought that
he had received full pay for it, Instead
Of doing that he had only received part
payment and consequently the highway
men did not make the haul they thought
they We're going to.