The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-30
$50 sets teeth, $40. DR.. Wix.
FooTPADS RULE NEW YORK.
Eastern Metropolis in the Hands of the
Boldest Robbers.

Boldest Robbers.
Robberies of pedestrians by strong
arm negresses in the very heart of the
city, bold hold-ups in daylight and on
street cars are becoming SO common
in New York that they fail to excite
more than passing attention. While
police officials are busy declaring to
MRZet committees and other investi-
gators that vice and crime can be found
only by those seeking it and that a. man
and his property are safe in any part
of the metropolis, the boldest outrages
occur in densely peopled districts and
the police seem powerleSS to prevent
them. Both men and women ply the
art of the highway roober and footpad
unmolested; negresses armed with raz-
ors patrol the streets in front of their
dwellings an exact toll of all who pass
their way, pickpockets infest the street
cars, forcibly taking watches and valu-
armed with reVolvers Turk in the lee OF
buildings in broad daylight and at the
points of revolVers rob those luckless
enough to pass near them.
In the ''tenderloin' the thieves hold
high revel and the police seem to know
nothing of it. When the officials do
learn of case of highway robbery they
make strenuous efforts to suppress the
facts or to so alter them as to show
that the victim was hurt in an alter
cation" giving the impression that he
was partly to blame. Such was the case
in the report of the robbery of George
Frank, who now lies in New York hos
pital, likely to die from loss of blood.
Frank keeps a shoe shop on Sixth ave
nue.. A few nights ago he parted with
a friend at Fifth avenue and Thirty
fifth street and walked west on that
thoroughfare toward Broadway.
He arrived before the Garrick the
alter, which is closed for the summer.
The street is not well lighted and there
We're dark shadows behind the project
ing storm doors of the theater. From
these shadows three black women
sprang upon Frank. Two seized his
arms; the third, a big muscular woman,
throttled him.
They dragged him into the shadow
of the storm doors and pinned him
against the wall. The biggest of the
three let go of his throat and went
through his pockets. Surprise and alarm
made Frank dumb for a minute. Then
he yelled and struggled. The two held
him fast.
Shut up" THE big woman ordered,
swearing frightfully. IF you yell I'll
kill you
Help! Police!" Frank yelled louder
than before.
Rum" cried the big woman to her
her stocking. They released Franks
arms and ran toward Fifth avenue.
The big woman, cursing like a pirate,
slashed with all her might at Franks
face. He threw up his right arm; the
razor sank almost to the bone.
He fell. The merciless Amazon bent
over him and laid open his shoulder.
That for luck" she exclaimed, and
she, too, ran toward Fifth avenue.
This, please remember, within a few
feet of Sixth avenue, within half
block of Broadway. Men passing heard
Franks shouts and supported him to
the drug store at the corner of Broad
way and ThrtyfOurth street. The way
was marked with his blood, which
rained from his sleeve. An ambulance
was called from the New York hospital;
the surgeon did all he could to temper
arily stay the fearful hemorrhage. A
crowd gathered, learned how Frank
had been done up" II became absC-
lutely necessary to arrest the negresses.
Frank was able to give a good de-
scription of them. The police went
through the precinct as with a fine
tooth comb. They arrested two neg
resses on description of the victim and
both were held for trial. They have
net been identified, as Frank is too
badly cut to leave the hospital.
But that was not the only hold-up
Dy negreSSeS IN the '1endefloln QlS-
trict that night.
William S. Moore of Philadelphia"
informed the police that two negresses
held him up on Sixth avenue, near
Thirty-flfth street, around the corner
from the Garrick theater, at o'clock
yesterday morning. Mr. Moore of
Philadelphia" was probably too discreet
to yell or struggle SO he saved his life
blood, but lost $40. From his descrip-