The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-15
SANDBAGCED BY HIS CABMAN.
"MIGHTY tNGRiTEFIL SAYS
RICHARD SON or kENTICkY.
Driver He'd Treated to Drinks Robs Him
Of Money. watch and Stud-tabby's.
Friend Helps With Brass knuckies
knife Suggested hut Not Needed.

r. s. Richardson, a hroad-shouldered
six-footer from Kentucky. who carries
a gun, l. going home to-day with poorer
OF inion of New York thar he had when
he came here three day ago A cabman,
whose friendship MIR Richardson supposed
he had won with a number Of drinks and
another man whom he does not know
knocked him down with brass knuckles
and a sandhag on West Fort y-s"cond street
late on Thursday night and after taking
away his gun and knife. robbed him Of a
watch. chain and charm, diamond stud
worth 500 and a iour-huGdred-dollar roll
Of bills.
Il don't mind losing the money" he says.
but that fellow was might ungrateful
TO treat mo that way after we had drinks
together. They'd shoot a man for that in
Kentucky. where | com" from"
Richardson CONE, from the town Of
Brandenburg, wh,r' all gentlemen carry
a gun and "A kniic He runs a dry goods
store and came here Ia buy goods for his
fall and winter stock. staying at the Grand
Union Hotel, where he registered j. +.
Smith, because he didn't waAt TO b pe,t red
~ drummer
I'm Thursday nigh, lie had bought every
Paid ont about 5000 The 500 he had left
re fashioned into ron and stuffed it in
ii. ip pocket TIN he put his i5-calibre
revolver and a pearl handled bowie knife
in LIS ittk.t Wl,ie Noy would be handy
nd started out TO enjoy himself. He had
sevsral drinks at the hotel Tar and then
wandered ont 10 For, y-seoon street to go to
tie theatre
There a CabmG acoosted him and offered
to take Lin any rea,oral /" distance for 81.
l. 81 sItson Jumped in end the cabby drove
through Fo'ty-so Cord street To Broadway.
When they got TO a saloon run by prize
fighter. the kentuckan stopped the rig
and invited the Cabby in To have a drin
They he'd TWO or three and then went on to
The 90 sino
Richardson paid for hi- seat from the roll
and thinks that the Cahman saw IL then.
At any rate when he came ou after the show
the driver was waiting for him and offered
to drive him around bit and then home
again tor another dollar Richardson got
In and drove around for a while stopping
now and then to have drink with the cab
man.
After he had been carried about half
mile, o. I've remembers il. the cabby pulled
up and asked:
can put a friend in there with you?"
Not on your life" answered Richardson
I'm paying for this and I'm going to ride
alone
him up with me then" and his friend
climbed up Oh the box.
In the course Of the drive the cab passed
the Grand Union Hotel and Richardson
poked up the trap door in the roof and told
the driver TO let him out The cabbv didn't
pay any attention and they had gone west
on Forty-seCond street seven or eight blocks
Richardson thinks. before he reached out
and grabbed one of the reinS turning the
horse TO the curb. Then he says he jumped
out.
At the same time the cab,nln's friend
jumped down from the box, grabbed Rich
ardson and stiurk him on the forehead
with something which he thinks was a set
Of brass knuckles. The Kentuckian was
dazsd by the blow, and before he could
recover. the man had yanked the revolver
from his pocket and had taken tho stud and
watch and chain
Then Richardson drew his knife and
started for the thief, but before he had gone
a step, he says, the cahman hit him over
the head with sand bag
stick hun with that knife said the
cabman
DON'T have 10. All | want i the roll.
said tho other, according To Richardson,
and after they had turned hi pockets inside
out they jumped on IN" cab and drove
away nj a gallon
Richardson wasn't unconscious, ard
managed to get back to the hotel. After
he had bathed his bruises he reported the
matter to the nearest police station.
He hadn' got over his experiences last
light. HIS left eye Was hlackered ard
reary closed, hs rose IVES cut and the
one was broken and hi head had several
10 bumps. He said he { II core all over
,nd thought that he wa, kio kcd as ar
srdbagged,
He told the story Of what happened
To him To reporter Of THE SUN in his
room last night. and then naid:
No more New York for me They took
oil the morey | had except 50. but I'm
roing 10 borrow some and get out to-inorr, W
I'm husky citizen and thought with that
revolver and the knife 7 was good for what
ever got M against but New York il too
much for me. got it good, and row it's
ne back TO kertuck
Richardson went among the cabmen
around the Grand Central Station late
last night and picked out Frederick Moore
OF $50 Ninth avenue a. the man who had
robbed him Moore was locked up in the
Fast Thrty-ffth street station on sus-
ICion He had MONO Of Rich ardsnn,s