Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-11-14
TWO YOUTHFUL FOOTPADS
Miss Mary HOrty Was Held Up on Sixth
Street Near Walnut Monday Night.
HER PURSE AND MONEY STOLEN
Between Six and Seven Dollars
Secured.
MANY PEOPLE WERE ON THE STREET

While hundreds OF people we're on the
streets, at 6. 20 o. clock Monday evening
Hiss Mary Horty OF No. geo Pine street,
an employe of NJ. Megary 4 Son, was
held up and robbed on Sixth street be.
tween French and Walnut by two
youthful highwaymen, who succeeded
in escaping, with their plumber, amount.
ing to about SO. so.
Miss Horty was on her way home
from the Megary establishment ana was
walking east on Sixth street. She was
carrying her pooketbcuk in her hand.
just as she was about to pass the alley
midway between French and Walnut
streets two boys, each evidently about
~ years of ags. dashed out and sprang
at her. One struck her and the other
grabbed her pocketbook and both ran
toward Freuch street. Miss Horty fol-
lowed, as did also several men, includ-
ing Policeman Peterson, but the boys
were too fleet footed and we're SCUM out
OF sight. They ran to Eighth street,
thsnce east. and the last aeen OF them
they were turning up Poplar street at
Eighth. Where they went after that is
not know, but it is thought they ran to
Taylor street and found hiding place
III the eastern part OF town.
Although Miss Horty was badly
frightened. she was not injured and
continued in the chase until the young
footpads were out Of sight ana there
appeared to be no hope Of catching
them. At Eighth aud Poplar streets
she was approached by one OF the men
who had been pursuing the boys and at
his suggestion she went to Di. Miller's
drug store, on the corner, where she
Koafod for a oh II haF
home. She was so surprised when the
boys attacked her that she had very
little opportunity to look at them
sufficiently to be able to give a
description. She believes they were
white, but another boy who saw them
thinks they were colored. The general
impression of other people who saw
them is, however, that they were white,
and it is believed they be.ong 10 the
neighburhood. 1t. il said that suspicion
points to one boy, although Miss Horty
has no suspicious herself.
The pockethook which was stolen con
tanned So 10 notes and some change, the
whole amount being between So. 80 and
81 There were also some papers, but
none were OF any great value.
The no dup is one OF the boldest that
has occurred in this city recently and
that it should have been committed by
boys who are less than - years of aye.
in the heart OF the city, at time when
there ara more people on the streets
than at any other time of day, is
astonishing, 1t is believed that the
young outlaws learned ia some manner
that Miss Horty had some money 10 her
aocketbook and, seeing her carry it in
her hand and knowing the streets she
would take to go home, they carefully
planned the attack, probably entering
the alley from Fifth street, and waiting
until the young woman came along.
The young outlaws took great chances,
and it seems actually strange that they
made their escape when there were SO
many people on the street.
People living in the neigbborhood
say there was a similar occurrence al
about the same place about two months
ago.