The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-15
BOLD DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
room MATCHMAKER CHOKED AND
HIS STORE LOOTED.

Ono Robber Held Him While Two Others
Robbed tho Little store of Watches In
His window-A Hundred Pcrsons Within
Call but the Thieves Got Safely Away.
Three robbers entered watchmaker's shop
at IL Market street yesterday afternoon.
choked the proprietor into helplessness stole
half OF the little line OF aches that hung IN
his window and escaped through the popuous
streets OF the neighborhood. leaving behind
them hardly trace By which they may be
identified or apprehended.
j. Frank is the matchmaker who was robbed.
He Ia 30 years old. feeble and poor. He carries
on his trade in front room OF a big tenement
house. where score or more families.
probably more than hundred persons.
live. Frank has a little apartment on
the first floor. with one window opening
on the street. In front OF this window
IL his work bench. and on a wire strung across
the lower sash he kept his customers watches
and the few that he had OF his own for sale.
Opening into the room by sliding doors is q
second room used as a kitchen. His two
youngest children. girls about Is and 10
years old respectively. live with him but they
are away all day working in shops.
1t was about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
when two young men went into Mr.. Franks
place and showing him an empty watch
case asked him II he had any works
that would nt II. He examined the
case and told them mo" and they
went out few minutes later the
Ma Ten pinn., remSmbered that the lre
and rose to attend to It. He had lust got TO
the oben doorway between the two rooms when
anG stoS @boS. %Ura snS
Kim ,he By The M az NJ
him until he could not cry out and forced him
Now get 'em p he cried to his comrades. and
and stripped the watches from the wire, Some
in and these slipped to the floor between the
Workable aud the window-sill. Without
ns ran s''"f the 'hS door, up the the third ,Ti
releas;ng, Mr. Frank .jolned them and all dsap-
peared MIR. Frank was too weak to follow
them at once. but IN moment or two. sum-
moning all OF his remaining strength. he tot
tered e the front stoop and raised feeble cry
on the street. and in n moment n crowd gath.
cred. In q few words the old man told d the
but the thieves were out Of sight. "'''ee''o"''
Aholicemon seeing the crowd came and learn.
street station. where acting Ia m" jacob
ayssiisps,s;y 'Be,9rc they SS,t sS, I@' the
going IN to hear what had happened
found him neInrly UNCONSCIOUS sitting by his
made to see what was lost. There had been
ten watches in the window. Five were found
on the floor under the bench. Those
OF gold and one with Allied case, both belong
TO customers. Mr.. Frank said the robbers had
not attempted to search him but had they done
pock II would have left him destitute.
The thieves did not get away without being
seen. man standing Mt the window next
door saw three men such as Mr.. Frank de-
street toward East Broadway. They evidently
Kept going in that direction. for "a lad who
attends sodawnter stand at Market and
post his sSSd evldeSty bsnmd ,of fh ,6s
Iowery. This lad thinks he might recognize
the men II b. saw them again. but neither Mr.
Frank nor Mrs. Smith saw enough OF them To
give more than a general description OF them
Mr. Frank says the two men who came In with
the watchcase were not OF the party that rob-
bed him. but no suspects that they were spy
Ing out the ground
The. police were inclined last night to con-
meet Franks son with the Job In some way.
yroSSo about four S mo Ssh @ %so s sSa
oG ,ss sGa H. aaus shS lot said T a.s
or any OF his friends OF having n hand in the
robbery. He was, hard up awhile ago, said
raise money on. but he returned 1t all right
As the neiehbors came around last night 10
sympathize with Mr. Frank many had tales to
said that his place was entered by burglars a
few weeks ago while II was closed over satur-
day, and 500 worth Of gold. silver
scale for which he had i''I Just O Said 500
About year ago druggist was held up at the
muZzle Of n r-vol v"r in his store Mt Market and
Madison streets by two men who went through
his rockets andigot away with his watch and