The San Francisco call., 1899-06-20
ROBBERS LOOT
A CAR OFFICE
Daring Raid Made at
Paramount Park.
MEN ARE BOUND AND GAGGED
FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS
TAKEN BY THE BANDITS.
Clever and Swift Work of a Party
of Masked Desperadoes and
Cracksmen Near Phila-
delphia.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PHILADELPHIA June IA gang
of masked robbers, probably ten in
number, raided the receiving office of
the FairmOunt Park Transportation
Company, at Belmont, in Fairmount
Park, and after holding up the receiver
and five other employees of the railroad
blew open the safe, securing $4,000 the
company's receipts for two days.
Frank Leavan. receiver: Frank Wat
son and Henry B. WhitehOuse, cOnduc-
tors: James Cavanaugh. fireman of the
powerhOuse: Philip Eaves, electrician,
and William Cadmus, labOrer, We're
bound hand and foot with wire. In
addition to the men who actually COM
mitted the robbery, others operated
miles away from the scene by destroy
ing telegraph and telephone wires con-
Meeting with the trolley companys
main Office.
The Fairmount Park Transportation
Company operates various lines of
trolley cars through the park for pleas
ure riders. The traffic being unusually
heavy on Saturdays and Sundays, the
robbers evidently decided upon this
morning as being a good time to make
"a big haul. The men named were all
i'm he Office when the burglars made
their appearance. Each intruder was
armed with two reVolvers. and they
took the employees completely by sur
prise. 1t was the work of a few mo-
ments for the robbers to pinion the
Workmen. who were rolled over to one
side Of the room with their faces to
the wall. In ten minutes the safe had
been cracked and the gang disap-
peared
The entire city detective force is on
h. hut -, ,,l- 1oE+
CieW.
Frank Leavan. the night receiver, one
of the men gagged and bound by the
robbers, told this story of his expert
ence:
While I was standing at the office
door l heard footsteps in the rear.
Turning. / saw two men with masks on
their faces. They had two big re-
volvers and took me into the conduc-
tors room and tied my hands and feet
with wire and laid me on the floor with
my face to the wall. In the conductors
room I saw Whitehouse, who was
also being bound and gagged When
we were laid on the floor a man was de-
tailed TO guard us. In a few minutes
in came another victim, who, | think
was Watson. a conductor, and he went
through the same thing. Then two
more came in and were bound. The
burglars worked quietly. It only took
them ten minutes to blow open the
safe.
The guards frequently threatened
to shoot us if We made the least outcry
or motion. I think they must have
had a wagon TO take away the cash,
because it was very heavy. Shortly
after the money was taken our guards
left Finally Philip Eaves. the cleo
trician. got himself loosened and he
then loosened us. ] tried to reach the
City Hall by wire, but the wires of both
telephones had been cut, and ] had TO
run the pitch dark cross country to the
Belmont pumping station, where L
gave the alarms and they informed the
detectives"
Peter Duffert and Charles Smith, who
say they live in Newark, n. j., and Al
bert Leeds Of Philadelphia were ar
rested in Fairmount Park on suspicion
Of being concerned in the robbery.