New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15

criminals between che poor and the wealthy They
are JUST as likely 10 take the entire rolling stock
OF thrifty, hardworking Italian cruIt peddlsr as
the champagne wagon % grocery firm with many
branch strFes. A short tine ago ?. 2. Bauman.
4 merchant OF No. 262 West Ninsreenth-st-. IN
vested GOOD share OF his savings a smart look
ing cob and q brand new delivery wagon He was
so proud OF his acquisition that II IS said he
went out driving in IL the first Sunday he rs
owner But the wagons varnish was TOO bright
and the cob too plump. The gang soon spotted
IL and one day his delivery clerk walked back
20 the store and announced that the wagon WIZ
pinched- Mr.. Baunan has no trace Of his
property yet although he reported The theft
promptly 70 the police
Until a few days ago the victims OF the horse
thieves Were completely mysrthed- Detectives IN
Mulberry-st- who had at last taken some interest
in the th9fts only shook their heads n despair
They said they could understand how rowdy
might Jump into wagon and drive down the
street, but they had idea how the thieves dis
posed OF the horses and vehicles Il was not until
two deputy sherif1s from Long Island came 20
town last Monday that the mask behind which the
thieves operated lifted
The sherirrs came from Sayvine. and they said
that they he'd noticed OF late that many OF the
farmers boasting OF horse trades in which the
other fellow got the worst OF IL. AS soon these
sayviIle sleuths learned that hundreds OF horses
and wagons We're being stolen from the streets or
Nev--Yorz they put their noses 70 the scent They
70 the farmers and forced them 70 give up
animals and other property which they proved 10
have been stolen and they succeeded in finding for
u horses twenty sets OF harness and many
one OF the deputies said that the animals sold in
sayvtlls were handled by one two men. who
told everybody that they professional traders
Detectives the hunt throughout Long
Island and Westchester County searching FOR other
horses for according 10 lists prepared by the New
York Retail tfrocers' Union and the Merchants
Protective Association there are stiu two hundred
animals missing.
Investigation has also shown that the boys dis
pose of much OF the harness at shops right here IN
rated and so interchauged pieces OF other har-
ness that they escape detection The silver mount
ings melted down.
one such harness fence was discovered near the
Thirtieth-st police station. For example. F. Beer
man. OF No s2S West Twenty-sixth-st.. tells how
he was approached by one OF a gang. the leader OF
which told him that he could recover his harness
by handing S5. Mr. Beerman deferred pay
ment on the ground that he wanted TO see the har-
ness first Accordingly, the boys took him d
shop. where he found difficulty IN picking out
his property. When Mr.. Beernan simply put the
harness under his arm Snd started 20 go out. the
owner OF the shop and the boy spokesman threat
ened violence Pointing 10 the two green lamps OF
the police station M Beerman merely sgnihed his
intentions. and ne permitted to depart IN
peace.
There have also been many other recent evidences
OF the hoodlunl. besides that OF stealing horses
young marauders seems 10 have budded out with
the leaves along Riverside Drive. Here they try
TO upset automobiles by throwing rocks at the
chauneurs Not long ago a motor car was wrecked
by serious injury 10 the driver. who was hit in
the eye with a marble hurled from a hoodlurn's
sling Not many days later Charles Elliot Warren
OF No. 50 East Forty-secOnd-st-. was going along
the Drive in his automobile with his daughter by
hts side when a rock large hens egg struck
her full In the forehead. Fortunately the wound
was not severe
The next day Mr.. Warren saw a gang OF bows
attempt TO hold up the driveway with a delivery
WAGON stolen from the Boulevard he saws. 1T
was drawn across the drive at fun speed. az i'm
minent risk 10 pedestrians. drivers and autorao-
hnsts and finally pushed over the stone steps lead
ing 70 the river and sent crashing down a steep /
declivity Another favOrtte source of diversion To
these hoodlums is the overtUrpins OF ash barrels 7
and the breaking OF windows. all this notwith-
standing the excellent service Of the mounted police
and patrolnlen assigned 10 the Drive
The democratic spirit OF the hoodlum is no better
exeuplifed than by Michael DonelIy a twelve
year-oId lad who was arrested the other day for
smashing an automobilist in the face Mike was
playing BAH in Central Park West. and was SO in (
terssted in mastering the in-curve that ne stood
right in the way OF the motor which spin I'D I
and down this thoroughfare. After he had escaped .
being run over several times he made up his mind
that Central Park West belonged 10 him and NOT
to the automobilists. He thought he had more
right TO play there they had ride there fo-
they were rich and could ride anywhere. His con- i
yictions overcame him 20 such degree that he 4
picked up his baseball bat and hurled IL az Al ap-
HroscilinS automobile The missile knocked on the