The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
VIGOROUS MAN or SEVENTY.
Grabs and Holds a Pickpocket, scorn-
 ing the Idea That He Needs a Pis.

Grabs and Holds Pickpocket, scorn-
 ing the Idea That He Needs Pis-
 tol
 Charles L. Krugler, commission
 merchant of Manhattan, whose home is
 at 4s6 Quincy street, and who is over
 seyenty years old. caught a pickpocket
 at the bridge yesterday afternoon and
 handed him over to Policeman Goss
 land Bohn of the bridge squad.
 Did the man give you a fight when
 you got hold of him?" an admirer
 asked the old man this morning. fright, eh?H asked Mir Krugler, and
 his eyes sparkled and the lines of his face deepened. I'd like to have seen
 him give me fight. I was ready for
 him, tell you. He knew better"
 Would you have shot him?" MT.
 ISrugler was asked.
 Shoot him!7 No. | had nothing to
 shoot anybody with, But I'd have giv- en it to him good and hard, tell you" l For slim man of seventy, who is not over the medium height MT. Krugler showed much fire and youthful vigor. It Is his habitsto get the Lexington av- enue car On the elevated line at the 1 bridge every night and the tussle with l the mob that runs for the cars gives him more health than would the best advertised breakfast cereal. So, in spite of his age and his spareness, Mr. Krugler may be said to be in the best of bodily health and condition. He looked like a demure little minister as he stood waiting for his train on the Sands street platform yesterday after noon. When the cars came along there was rush on the part of about a score of human hogs and women were tossed aside like straws in a windstorrn. MT. Krugler put his spare little frame as barrier to the human tide and a number of women shot around the sturdy little breakwater and got into the cars in peace and quiet. MT. Krug- Ter was in the meanwhile bracing him. self by holding on to one of the stanch- ions for the benefit of the girls.
 While he stood there he felt some one behind pushing against him and, turning around quickly, he discovered a young man abstracting his purse from his hip pocket. The pockethook con tained something over four dollars, for MT. Krugler is cautious of his money and rarely carries very. much. s. <. You corlfounded rascal, \ shouted Krugler, as he forgot about the chiv-1 alrous work he was engaged in and grabbed the thief.
 Excuse me, sir, have done noth ing, said the young man,
 ''Yau've done nothing, eh?" proceed | led Mr. Krugler You've got my pock- etbook and I'm going to hold you right here until policeman comes. And don't you squirfn, for 1t will be worse. for you if you do."
 One of the policemen who finally took the prisoner to the station on Washing ton street was within earshot of the 4 two and pressing forward got hold of the pickpoclret. The man did not squirm, for he had been looking into MT. Krugler's eyes and had seen light there that boded danger. Of course, the other people crowded on the plat- form began to feel interested and the prisoner and the complainant were fol- lowed to the street by quite a throng of new-nade admirers of MT. Krugler. At the station the prisoner described him. self as Edwin Travis, aged eighteen l years, of Chatham Square, Manhat- tan. He had not been given a chance 1 to drop his booty for MT. Krugler had l been too quick for him, and when Tra- wis was searched at the station the 1 pocketbook of the complainant, with its l contents, were found showed down the l back part of the accused's brooches. I He could not account for it's presence | there, asserted that he was guiltless and 1 said that some enemy, or pickpocket, l who had already robbed MT. Krugler, \ had put it there to, shift the blame on | him. But Mr. sKrugler knew better. 1 He had the right man, he asserted, for i he had almost seen the dip" @
 The prisoner was brought this morn ing into the Adams street court and | Krugler made formal charge against l him. Travis pleaded not guilty through | a lawyer and was held in default of a | thousand dollars for an examination before Magistrate Doofey.-Brooklyn | Eagle.
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