The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-22
GOT $1,000 AT PISTOLS POINT
HOLD-UF MAN TRIPPED UP As
HE FLEES--SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Was Drunk, but With the Backing OF His
Pistol He Could Talk Effectively
Enough 70 Make Two Men in n Newark
once Keep Quiet-Bullet in His Head.


Pistol He Could Talk Effectively
Enough 70 Make Two Men in Newark
once Keep Quiet-Bullet I'm His Head.
Don't move or make any outory or I'll
shoot you and blow up the building" said
well dressed stranger who entered the
business Office Of Joseph s. Mundy, builder
OF holsting engines and contractors ma
chinery at % Prospect street, Newark.
early yesterday afternoon. Then he
pointed pistol at the head Of Charles Ten
Eyck, the bookkeeper, who had just re-
turned from the Manufacturer Bank with
about 81 600 to make up the payroll.
The money was lying on Ten Eyck's
desk. The stranger reached over and
gathered UP over 81, 200 Of It. Then he
backed out Of the Office. Lawrence Olsen.
who was at a typewriter, and Ten Eyck
were the only occupants Of the general
office, which is an inside room on the second
floor. approached by q narrow stairway
between the two shops. They were both
momentarily inundated by the visitor,
who had prefaoed his command by asking
for Mr.. Mundy, and had been told that
Mr.. Mundy was In Hackettstown.
The stranger evidently was intoxicated.
keep Ten Eyck and Olsen quiet. Before
closing and locking the Office door he thrust
his pistol through the crack and repeated
his warning not to give any alarm The
instant the door was closed Ten Eyck
jumped to the speaking tube connected
with the superintendent Office at the foot
of the stairs and shouted to General Fore
man E. Judson Jennings:
"A man has just got away with our pay
ROLL Catch himl"
Jennings left the tube and saw the stranger
go out of the hallway with one hand under
his coat and the other at his hip pocket.
The man was walking in lesurely manner,
but started to run when he saw Jennings
behind him. He ran out Of Prospect street
and up Ferry street, with Jennings in pur-
suit and shouting an alarm
As the stranger was passing under the
Central Railroad bridge he was tripped
up by Detective Thomas Harrington OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad who happened
to be passing with Special Policeman
Michael Daniel.
The stranger had the pistol in his hand
as he fell, and, quickly raising it to his head
he discharged two shots in quick success
sion. One bullet entered his neck under
the jaw and the other entered behind his
right ear.
Jennings said he had pointed the pistol
at him behind his back as he was run
ming and before he was tripped by Far
ripgton, but the foreman said that he
Thought only Of the money and grabbed
it as soon as the thief fell. There was
sl,2n in the roll Policeman Daniel Blewitt
took charge of it. The injured man was
removed to st. James's Hospital as soon
as possible There he regained his senses
and said that he was Jack Wilson Of Omaha.
He evidently was drunk. Immediately
afterward he said he came from Pough-
keepsie. A moment later he said he came
from Yonkers.
When asked IL he was married he said in
maudlin tones: How could be married."
As the physicians worked over him he
sang snatches OF songs and broke out with:
Forgive me. Mayi Oh, my darling, forgive
mel" and a moment later said: What will
they do without mei'
The doctors said his condition was criti-
cal. They decided not to attempt to find
or extract the bullets until the effects of
drink had worn off or been abated. The
man was too much stupefed with liquor
to feel the pain OF his wounds. All that
the man had in his pockets was a ticket
to return to New York on the Pennsylvania
Railroad and three cents, gold watch and
box OF cartridges.
Mr. Ten Eyok described the man as prob
ably IS years old. fairly we'll dressed and
OF dark complexion. At least one of the
bullets entered his brain, and the wound
will probably prove fatal