The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-05
p0S7NASyER PUT TO SLEEP
ann N STAMPS AND COIN VAN
,su N THE LONG EARLY MIST.
,, ye,i AT Mariners HarbOr Crossed
" h, swarthy Marauder From the Xii
,ap kull-Early Firccrackers Bring
,r,,rc,y Eclier--Sicuths Have Theory.

'' =, svorthy Marauder From, the Xiii
,,r l,ull-Eariy Firccrackers Bring
T,,rc,y RcIiei-Slcuths Have Theory.
r,, good folk of Mariners Harbor,
,.',an Island want to know who struck
.;. eood postmaster, William Elmer
,I..orGen. and left him unconscious for
'r.,o quarters of an hour. Is there band
" ,ira,es. they wonder, stealing across
", gill Van kull under cover of the long
.,, foy Of the morning and landing upon
sa' ,oost Of Richmond Terrace on murder
wv r,nne bent? Will others who go to
' ,L IN the early morning be kicked in
WV .,omach and robbed and pounded and
W., tor dead? Will the police do nothingP
Will the Government not protect the early
tHd' - ,,.
,.rv good man and got up early in the
.,iny to give their mail to working
","' that he was kicked and the Govern
,a,', ,yas robbed. If he had stayed in led.
m,,, come nostmasters he would have been
Il ,n, ,r,m harm. As it was, he was hard
.orksr Even on the morning OF the Fourth
", hlv a morning when he had to have q
o,,,rass to find his way through the fog,
ras he not sorting the mail before O'Clock
and making everything ready for the people
whom he served?
PERHAPS if Lissenden Kwossak, the post
masters little godson, hadn't got up early
orso to shoot off his bunch OF firecrackers
w;t, little Roger Conklh, the good man
ronldnt have recovered. For when Lis
serdcn and Roger had exhausted their
int hn ,oof IN
to see Lissie's godfather. They saw him
and were deeply impressed. There on the
soor he lay with his hands clutched tightly
ia his stomach and his face covered with
- blood Iissies parents live next door to
the ro.t Office and home he ran.
-Mndder," said he breathlessly, "godpa
has GOT the stomach ache and the nose
bleed Run quick
Because it was holiday. Mrs. Kwossak
was sleeping overtime. She told Lisse
10 call the men out of Carey's on the corner
# anything was the matter. Lissie ran
with all his might. but Roger had got ahead
Of him, and mixed crowd OF late sitters
and early risers poured out Of the saloon
door They found Lissenden much as
I.issia and Roger had said. There were
red coag,lated blood on his face and evil
dence of violent jar to his solar plexus
in the posture Of his hands. They saw
100. what the boys did not, the safe door
vide open and the inner chambers empty .
Doctor and policeman were summoned
simultaneously. Before the doctor ar
rived. the postmaster had recovered con-
siotsness and been helped home, where the
rhysician patched up his wounds. Then
the policeman came He found the post
master eating a hearty breakfast. Be-
tween the pancakes and the coffee the officer
got this story
The postmaster got up early and went
shipshape. for he opened earlier than usual
on HOLIDAYS and the office needed attention.
First, he opened his safe and looked over
his hooks, then grabbed his broom and
tesan sweeping the sidewalk.
When he had finished he went to the
tack part of the Office and there was a
swarthy complexioned man. five feet six
inches tall and $50 pounds in weight, with
heavy black mustache and black clothes
snd hat. The man was going through
the safe. The postmaster expostulated
The man did the rest, but it wasn't fair
flht. Elmer caught glimpse of a foot
s,ajnst the stomach and knew nothing
more for three-quarters of an hour
The first thing he did when ne reco vered
Consciousness was to look through the safe
He couldn't find $500 in money or 5000 LII
stamps that had been there.
The rear door Of the post office was open
and the lock broken. Perhaps the mysteri-
ote marauder forced his way into the office
through the rear and made his escape in
ne same direction. There was a mario
alley through which he may have darted
and run unohserved to the shore. There a
quick leap into a boat and one long pull
at the oars would have taken him out of
sight in the fog. The mariners OF Mariners
Hill think that IS the way he came and went
Many secret is carried away by the ebt
and aow of the Kill Van Kull, they say;
The police of the Eighty-first precinct have
their theory, but the captain doesn believe
he ought to disclose it. His men are work
ing on the case and expect developments
They notified Chief Post Office Inspector
Mayer, who lives at West Brighton, and ne
worked on the case Yesterday afternoon.
Mr. T.issenden is prominent in the Re-
publican politics of Mariners Harbor ano
Vicinity, and has held office over six years
There il no inclination anywhere, 80 far
IS is known, to doubt the story he tells
who know him. All that they think about
Is that he has been brutally maltreated
and they want to know who did il.
As great mystery as the Billy Patter
son cass?" said one of them yesterday
never knew Billy Patterson, but II
let he wasn't as good man as Elmer Lis
senden, who's lived here all his life anc
never done a mean thing, and III bet tht
man who hit Patterson wasn't half as 10"
acoward as the loafer that kicked Elmer.
The postmaster had abrasions OF the ski
on the forehead and upper part Of the nos'
and was pretty badly battered about the
lace At his house yesterday noon 1t wa
sad that the doctor had advised him to g
10 red and see no one for the remainde