The evening times., 1900-02-23
ROBBED In HER HOME.
Thieves Overcome Woman and
Ransack the House.

Hansack the House.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-While attending
to her household duties early yesterday
morning, and while her two little children
were playing together on the floor. Mrs.
Caroline Wilson, who lives in Inwood
Avenue, near Belmont Street, Borough Of
the Bronx, was bound and gagged by one
robber, while his companion forced open
chest and stole s227.S9 in money and a
savings bank book. The woman fought TO
save her life and property in the presence
of her frightened children, and was
scratched and bruised.
Both men were arrested and in the
Highbridge police station within an hour
after they had left Mrs. Wilson appaT-
emily smothered to death, lying on a bed.
her face covered with pillows and her old
est child, ThurstOn, a boy OF three, lying
by her side.
The prisoners gave the names of jam
| brOno Jacobs, twenty-seven years old, OF
| 474 Morris Avenue, and John Labone.
twenty-six years old. OF 151st Street and
Morris Avenue. Detective Hector Worden
! visited those localities, but no one knew
the men. The prisoners wore working
clothes, oyeralls, and jumpers.
Nautilus Wilson, with his wife and chill
| dren, live on the second floor Of dwelling
that is fifty feet back from the muddy
roadway known as Inwood Avenue. VIII
son was at his work at quarter before 3
| o'clock when JacobO and LabOne knocked
at the kitchen door of the apartment.
Mrs. Wilson answered the knock. JacObO
asked for Mrs. SherbO. and was told she
lived in the next house but one. Then he
asked for match. When he said il was
very rainy morning Mrs. Wilson, be-
lieving the men were employed on the
street improvements. asked them TO ne
| seated, and pushed two chairs toward the
kitchen stove.
Mrs Wilson then went into another
| room and was caught from behind by a
| powerful hand that clenched around her
| throat. Slight of figure. the woman bat
| tied for liberty Holding her down by
main strength the rObber forced a pair OF
! wooden gloves into her mouth as a SAG
/ and then reached down with one hand and
/ picked up a piece of ClOthesiine little
! Thruston had been playing with. and
| bound her wrists by two deft windings.
| Still trying to make an outcry impossible
| the assailant took the pillows. held them
| over his victims face and stood over her
with an uplifted ak he had picked up in
| the room. LabOne gave no assistance. but
/ with a cold chiseI he forced open wool
! en- chest that stood in the room From
/ this he took rosewood box that cOntainet
| SlO2 in bills. S120 in gold, and Sj.8J in sil-
| yer.
! Labone stuffed the stolen bills inside hi.
| trousers and divided the gold and silver il
the legs Of his rubber boots. A bank bOol
| of the Seamens Bank for Savings he pu
! in his pocket. With the booty slowed away
| the two men ran from the house. Mrs
! Wilson managed TO get her hands free
and. pulling the gag from her mouth. rar
| to a front window and called for help
| Daniel Brown heard her cries. and. seeing
| the men turn the corner toward jerome
| Avenue. gave chase.
| Pursued By Brown, Jacob and LabOnt
struck into a piece OF woodland at Feath
| erbed Lane Acting Capt James Cannon
| and Detective Seeley J. BrowneI. who
| were driving down Jerome Avenue, III
| Brown to the Highbridge police station
! with orders to Sergeant McGlynn 10 turI
| out Roundsman Frawley with fourteen
mounted policemen. This was done. bJt
Acting Captain Cannon gaIloped his horse
up Jerome Avenue TO Burnside Avenue
which skirts the woodland on the north
| and leads down to Morris Heights a tbs
river Cannon and Detective BrOwncI
/ were just approaching the New York and
/ Putnam Railroad track when Jacob and
/ Labone emerged from the woods. The two
| were chased across the railroad tracks,
where the robbers hid behind a fence.
! With drawn reyolyers they were made
/ prisoners. When searched at the station
! house a knife with a blade four inches long
| was taken from Jacobo. and a razor. the
| blade of which was deeply nicked in a
! score OF places from LabOne Mrs. VIII
| son identified her assalants in the station
I house The money was recovered.