New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-03
HOLDSTP ELEVATED CAR
THIEF SLASRES TWO HEN
WITH 4 RAZOR.
he THEN FRIGHTEES PASSENGERS so
THAT THEY ALLOW HIN TO LEAP
GATE AND ESCAPE.

4 thief a. II 80 O'clock last night stole watch
from 2 passenger IN z crowded Third-ave. ele-
waited car. slasaed Two men with a razor when
they tried 70 detain hin, and, after holding the
car full Of people AZ hay I'll the train reached
the Fffty-third-st station jumped over the gate
and made his escape. Some women II the car
were thrown into q panic when the thief made
his wav through the car TO the gate, shouting
that he would Kill any one who attempted TO
stop him.
Just before the train reached the Ftfty-thlrd-
St station, Edward Be7glr. thirty years old, a
brakeman on the New-Yorx. New-Faven and
Hartford Railroad. saw man about twenty
seven years old take watch from the pockeC
of 2 drunken man in the car. Bergin told the
guard Thomas Moody. Of No. 30 East One
Observation-Disclosures, and al the same
tine attempted 10 grab the thief. Moody went
70 Bergin's assistance In the struggle that fol-
lowed the thief drew a razor from an inside
pocket OF his coat and slashed Bergin across
the left arm and the right thigh. Bergin fell
back from him. and he whrled with the razor
and wounded Moody on the left arm.
BY this time the was in great excitement,
and number Of passengers had left their seats
20 help the guard. The thief turned on them
and said that he would kill any man who at
tempted TO interfere with him. No one venrured
sny nearer
AS the train slowed I'D me CeSI)6IdOo -ioN4-
sshing the razor in one hand and swinging the
watch by the chain for a weapon in the other.
passed through the group Of passengers stand
ing at the end of the car. Before the train had
come 10 full stop he had run through the
entrance past the ticket Office and was On his
way down the stairs.
number Of the passengers gained courage
and ran after him shouting catch thief,' The
man ran through Fiftv-third-st- to Second-ave.
There he was seen by Policemen Ulrich and
Buesfer. and Detectives McLaughln Nacauley
and Heaney, who heard the shouts Of the pur-
suing passengers. and gave chase. The fugitive
was half block ahead of Them, however and
siisa rr,eared in q house and could not be found
On the train were Dr. H =. Beers ana I'd
ward NARROW 2 nurse of the Aims tiouSe
BlackwelTs Island. They gave the "ounoed
men what attention they could until DR. Rich
srdson OF Flower Hospital. arrived The wound
in Rergin's arm was five inches long and the
one in his thigh eight inches His home Is at
Fifth and Grove SIS. Jersey City Moody had
received 2 three inch cut. Both men were taken
to Flower Hospital
Rerein told the police thai the thief han q
sroofh fac was = feet inches tall, ana
weighed about one hundred and forty pounds
he had brown hair and wore q black si1lt ana
. HACK derby hat. In the struggle with BerSin
end Moody his hat vas knocked of. and he did
not stop to pick II up Inc ponce nope 70 US
IRE hat in Identifying the man
THE name OF the owner OF the watch was not
learned He was drunk, md IN the eAcllenlelll
Of rae thiefs esca pc he staggered out OF me car
e7d down 10 the street without even knowing
that he had been robbed