The evening world., 1904-05-24
Mrs. Marbock Says Female
Passenger OF Street Car
Pulled Her Hair, While Young
Man Stole Her Pocketbook.
PLUMBER WAS HANDED
TO SECOND WOMAN.
MAY Smith," Young and Pref
ty, and Her Alleged Male
Companion Held for Trial
Frequent Car RobbeHes.

There Is a very pretty and well-dressed
CONAN a prisoner in the Jefferson Mar
ket Court prison charged with particle
'patiny in a remarkable highway rob-
berry on a Spring street cross-town car
yesterday. This young woman. who
gives her name as May Smith and
frankly admits that It is fictitious, Is
as mysterious as the crime with which
she and a boy of eighteen are charged
Is unusual.
Fourth street. Is the complainant. She
related her story in the Jefferson
Market Court to-day. and her claim
Is corroborated by several witnesses.
that as she was riding through old
Greenwich village on a Spring street
car Miss Smith," who sat beside her,
suddenly showed her and insulted her.
Harsh words were followed by blows
and hair-pulling, and while a SINAI riot
was In progress a young man. who sat
In the same seat with Miss Smith,"
slipped his hand In Mrs. Marboch's
pocket and stole her purse, containing
t15.
Third Person Got Away.
When Policeman Lankau, Of the Mat
aougal street station, interfcred In
the fight he was requested by Mrs.
Marboch to arrest the young woman
and the youth, who described himself
~ Gustave Lyons. Mrs. Marboch said
that Lyons had passed the pocket
book he stole to another woman, who
got away In the crowd.
In Court Lyons and the young woman
declared that they were strangers to
the charge against them. Notwith-
standing their assertions that they were
not acquainted, the prisoners engaged
the same counsel, Max Alter. The law
yer AYERS for his clients that they are
both of highly respectable families and
will readily prove their Innocence. They
both spent the night In jail, the young
woman saying that she will never call
upon her family to aid her, as she
wishes to save. them from the disgrace
she has innocently brought upon her
self. After a hearing this afternoon
the prisoners were held in 500 bail zach
for trial.
That Mrs. Marboch's story Of the roo
berry Is true Lewls " oil, OF NO. lib
East Broadway. and Mrs. Esther beck
man, OF No. l3O Prince street. offered
their testimony In the Jefferson Market
Court upon the examination Of the pris-
pners. ..,.
Robberies Are Ereauent.
Highway robberies on cross-town cars
'unnlng through Greenwich Village
lave become daily occurrences within
The past few weeks. The police deny
:he frequency OF the robberies, but the
residents of the lower west side declare
that reports of the robberies are with
held. Mrs. Della Cosgrove appeared In
the Charles street station to-day Just as
Capt. Aloncle was asserting that the
rumors of frequent robberies were I'M
true and said that her p~ocketbook had
been snatched from her hand while rid
ing on a Houston street car. -
Capt. Aloncle then admitted that some
complaints had been made to him and
that he had detailed detectives to watch
the cars on the Spring street, Blocker
street, Houston street and Chambers
street lines. Capt. Tighe, OF the
Macdougal street station. has also sent
men out from his precinct to protect
passengers on the croestoWn lines.