The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-15
GOT HIS MONEY
BACK AND YAMOOSED.
WeI|-Dressed Stranger Robbed
Of Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
POLICE DON'T KNOW NAME.
POLICE DON'T KNOW NAME.
They Succeeded in Recovering Most of
His Funds, and the Stranger Fled
Without Swearing Out Warrant.
Negro Woman Arrested.
A man was robbed on the street last

A man was robbed on the street last
night,
The police don't know his name;
The officers action was certainly bright,
But woman was to blame.
Here's a hawd'y do!
An unknown man walked up to Patrol
man Clarkson and Shoemaker near the
corner Of Broad and First Streets last
night and informed them that he had
been relieved of $40 by g negro woman,
the money having been lifted from one OF
his vest pockets. He said the robbery
occurred in an alley on Fouchee Street,
between Franklin and Grace.
The informant was stylishly dressed.
wearing a handsome diamond in his shirt
front and having every appearance of
being a gentleman of wealth. He agreed
to accompany the policemen to the scene
Of the robbery.
Just as the trio turned into Foushee
Street they spied negro woman, whose
actions struck them as being quite sus-
picious. and it was decided to interro-
gate her in hopes of learning some
thing Of the affair.
WAD OF BILLS.
The moment the officers stopped the
woman she unbuttoned the front of her
shirt waist and throwing a wad of bills
on the sidewalk attempted to get away.
She was nabbed. however, and carried to
the Second Police Station. charged with
being a suspicious character.
The police thought at the time they
captured the woman, who at the station
gave her name as Sadie Hardoway, that
the real perpetrator of the robbery had
been arrested. They instructed the we'll
dressed individual to accompany them
to efo
against the woman
Instead Of complying with the request
Of the patrolman the man took to the
tall timbers with the bunch of money.
disappearing around @ corner after fol-
lowing the officers for a block or two.
At the station the woman was
searched by Sergeant Brooks thirty
dollars being taken from her clothes
She stoutly denied her guilt to the po-
iceman, and as there was no one pres
ent to swear out the warrant she was
locked up on q charge of suspicion.
WOaIAN'S STORY.
That there was a robbery there can
be no doubt. for the woman under ar
rest makes a statement in which she
admits having been given $40 by Mary
Taylor. She claims that the Taylor
woman led the well-dressed white man
into the alley. where she touched him
Tor all the money ne mad on MS person,
According to the prisoner the real
perpetrator Of tho crime turned Jle
money over to her. telling her to hold
the same until tomorrow, when they
would divide up, each taking half. The
female robber then left the scene.
The police are of the opinion that the
Taylor woman Is a fictitious character,
and that the woman under arrest is
really the person who did the stealing,
but as they are unable to find the party
who lost the money the chances are
that she will go free when arraigned
in the Police Court.
In the meantime much speculation is
being INDUCED in as to who the swell
dressed party was, several advancing
the idea that he is a stranger in Rich
mon6, who doesn't care to appear in
the Police Court as witness in a case
against the negro woman, preferring to
lose the $50 than reveal his identity
and have his name made public.
The case one of the most peculiar
the police have tackled in a long time.
and if they should learn the identity
of the white man they intend making
him appear against the woman.