The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-20
ROBBERS SECURE $4,000.
| HOLD-UP BT MASKED MEN IN A
PHILADELPHI4 CAR BARN

Twelve of Them Bind Six Trolley Employees.
Tear Open Safe with NitroRlycerine
and Crowbnrs and Get Two Days Re-
ceipts in Sickels, Dimes and Quarters.
PHILADELPHIA, June 10.-A dozen men.
rudely masked. entered the car barn OF the
Fairmount Park Trolley Company n little
after ] A. NJ to-day and after binding six Of
the employees forced open the safe and stole
nearly $4,000. the receipts Of Saturday and
Sunday That the men we're professional rob.
bers the police do not doubt
The car barn IL In one Of the widest and
loneliest parts OF the PARK. At the time the
robbers were first seen there were five men in
the barn-Frank Levan. night receiver; Philip
Ewes. night electrician: Henry Whitehouse.
assistant electricians William Cademus night
Waterman. and c. Harry Watson. conductor.
One after another these men were bound by
the robbers and compelled to lie with their
faces TO the wall while the safe was being torn
omen with nitrogycerine and crowhnrs. II
took more than an hour for the robbers to
complete the Job, and during this time they
worked quietly and surely. showing perfect
knowledge OF the surroundings. Levan. who
tells the most connected story o. the robbery.
says that about IL he was sitting in his
chair Suddenly harsh voice called Hands
up" He turned. and standing near with re-
volver in his hand was very tall man clad in
n gray suit with a linen mask over his face
Levan did not at once obey the command
thinking 1t was Joke. but when the words
were repeated IN q meDa"lng tone ne did as
directed. and as his bands went UP another man
similarly masked entered and taking his
hands bound them with rope. In the adjoining
eaqd ns hves e
in the oil house when their attention was at
traeted by two men who stood at the WINDOWS
did.so. The men at the windows continued to
cover them VIII lie two other men who came in
picture wire. After ali were bound they were
taken into the conductors room. where they
were'made.o lie while tho thieves worked on
The, only time the cracksmen were inter-
rupted was at a little before o'clock. when
the tee phone He received no res p and nd
80 sent his fireman. James Cayanagh. to see
what was the: matter. Cavanagh was greeted
yolver into his face and told him to keep ST.
lent, He obeyed and in Il few seconds WAS
How te nag oeened Ge safe IS no
known. An agent OF the safe COMPANY says
that they first tried to do it with nitroglyeer-
WIN iron bars. Most q the money was IN in
sxy Gnss bsSfs anf dn: Of
robbers went to each Of the bound mon and
gave him handful OF silver. telling him to
SldS!. was given to the Superintendent this
morning.
The river i: not far from the barn and it is
thought that the men may have taken the
money away by boat Before leaving the
prisoners. the thieves warned them not to
move till morning. Ewes began TO try to GET
loose as soon as the men went away. He had
succeeded to.some extent. when revolver was
stuck against his head. and-he was ordered
70 keep quiet. He did so for time, hut hear
ing no moro OF the men. he got his hands
loose and soon liberated the others Levan at
once went to the citv pumping station at Bel
mont, quarter Of n mile away. and bottled
the police bv'teephone Word was also sent
a the same time to the superinten dent OF the
road. J. W. Smith. and his assistant. A. Z.
Meixen
Special officers and detectives from every
district in the city have been working on the
case all day. but up to the present time all that
has been found 10 a number of chalk marks on
the asphalt walk about 100 Yards from the
barn and near spring. which the police
think were made hy the robbers to indicate
where the guards were 10 stand when the
others approached the barn. \ conductor
who went to this spring about midnight said
he saw half dozen men sitting there OH