The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-18

street. Between the transcept of st. Mat
thew's Church and the next building on
The south is a space not over three feet
Wide. Through this the thief. forced mis-
way into the yard of ST. Matthews. An
other high iron fence blocked his further
progress, but he clambered over this as
readily as he had the one on Grand street.
When the thief dashed over the Re-
formed Church yard fence the crowd
which had Joined Herbert and Outwater.
ran around through Washington street
into Sussex They turned the corner just
as the thief tore diagonally across the
street, and dashed down the basement
steps of the big fiat house. No. 1O1 Sussex
street In the hallway he met little
Mamie Cummings, twelve years old, who
was taking her wagon out on to the
street to play with her companions The
thief ran into her and knocked her
down, frightening her out of a years
growth. Continuing through the hall the
robber came out into the rear yard of
No 101 Sussex street, where a high board
fence blocked his way. He threw the
satchel over the fence and quickly scram-
bled after it. He dropped into the rear
yard of No. 100 Morris street, through
which he passed. He walked rapidly up
Morris street to Van Worst, down which
he proceeded to Grand street There the
trail ends and Chief Murphy thinks he
took car there either for Newark or the
ferry. A story was circulated this morn
ing that the man went along Warren
street to the Gap" where he was met by
man who had row boat and that the
two rowed to New York City. The police
do not believe this story. They claim
that had there been a companion with the
thief he would have figured through the
entire working of the game.
Chief Murphy's theory is that the man
is panhandler or ordinary sneak thief
and not a professional bank thief. In
behalf of this theory Chief Murphy says
that the mans course in flight showed
that he had no "get away planned, that
is, he had no course of flight arranged
This was proven by the fact that the thief
first passed St. Matthews Church and
the nretraced his steps. The Chief says
the man was simply very lucky to get
away.
''He was a sneak thief, who came here
to do a job,'' says the Chief, land acci-
dentally saw the young lady with the
satehel. He saw her enter the bank and
grabbed the satchel, believing there might
be a few dollars in it. I believe the most
surprised man yesterday was that thief
when he opened the satchel and saw the
haul he had made
Manager Reilly of the Prudential Insur-
ance Company said this morning that the
girl had been in the habit of carrying
money to the bank for the past two years
in just the way she did yesterday. He
expressed no opinion on the case, as the
matter is in the hands of the Police De-
partment.
Miss Rickerich, when seen, told of the
theft as above. She said she was very
much bewildered at the time and for few
seconds was unable to make a move.
When she did regain her senses she
screamed and started in pursuit Of the
thief. She lost track of him when he
jumped the church fence, but saw him
long enough to give the police a descrip-
tion of him.
In his flight the thief incidentally caused
the death of Mrs. Henriette Fuhring, of
No. 103 Sussex street. Mrs. Fuhring was
seated at her window in an invalids
chair, suffering from a disease of the
heart. The bowling mob chasing the thief
directly toward her home caused the
woman sudden shock that resulted in
her death.