The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-17
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.TURP|N OF THE
STREETS.
Highwayman Snatches
a satchel With $40
in the Hudson Co.
Natl Bank.
FROM A GIRL CASHIER.
Money Belonged to the
Prudential Insurance
Company.
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH
Hue and Cry After the Rob-
Der Causes a Sick Woman
to Die Of Heart
Failure.
MARAUDER NOT CAUGHT
Wild Chase On Washington
and Grand Streets-PoIice
BaffIed.

One of the boldest robberies ever com
mitted in this city occurred this afternoon
in the doorway of the Hudson County
Band at Washington and York streets.
In his efforts to escape pursuit the thief
frightened an old woman who was very
i'll with nervous disease, to death.
Miss Laura Rickerich, of No. 245 Grove
street, who is cashier of the Prudential
Life Insurance Company, was going out
the bank with 81, ,O0O in cash and checks
in small valise. She had just stepped
inside the doorway when her arm was
pinched 80 fiercely that her grip on the
valise was loosened. She saw a man fly
ing through the doorway and down the
steps leading to the ban3 with her grip
in his hand.
Miss Rickerish screamed sHelp' and
started after the man. Her cry brought
the clerks in the bank to the door. They
Immediately took in the situation.
They started in pursuit yelling "Stop
thief!' There were a great many people
along the streets at the time and the chase
was taken up by them at every step. A
few seconds after Miss Rickerich's cry
there were fully 200 people in hot chase af-
ter the thief. He ran down Washington
street to Grand street and then turned up.
He crossed the street in the middle OF
the block, barely missing a trolley car
Several of the passengers jumped off and
chased him with the rest of the excited
mob. AS the man got in front of the Free
Reformed Church he took a firm hold on
the tall iron fence and as quick as a
wink cleared it.
There is an open space along the
eastern side of the church which ex-
tends from Grand street to Sussex
and yelled as he cleared the other fence
landing in Sussex street. Several of the
cooler men who took in the state of af-
fairs ran back to Washington street while
others climbed the fences.
Almost as soon as the thief got across
the street there was a crowd of people
only few hundred feet away from him.
The man ran up the stoop of a flat
house at No. 101 Sussex street and dashed
through the hall into the rear yard A
little girl Henrietta Fuhling, who lives
with her grandmother at No. 1Os Sussex
street, cried with fright as the man
dashed past her. Her grandmother,
Mrs. Henrietta Fuhling, sixty-one
years old, who has been i'll since Sunday,
was sitting at a front window on the sec
ond floor. She saw the man and heard
her granddaughter scream
The mans course was such that Mrs.
Fuhling thought he was about to enter
her house. She screamed with fright and
yelled 'sHelp" at the top of her voice
Then she was seen to fall back dead.
Miss Anna Fuhling, a daughter of the
old woman, heard her mothers scream
and rushed up stairs, where she found her
mother cold in death. She tainted and
was brought back to consciousness only
after hard work by her sisters.
The raging mob had a great deal Of
trouble getting through the front door Of
the fiat house. They finally succeeded III
reaching the rear yard, but they could
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