Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-29
IN RIOT BE-
CAUSE THEIR PAYMAS-
TER WAS ROBBED.
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day returned to get their money.
Finding there was no money, it hav-
ing been stolen, they went to the
Pennsylvania. station to return to
New York. They were held pending
further investigation. officers are
still trying to find thes men about
Bound Brook.
Stopped by Five Italians.
Robert Gold, a wholesale peddler
of the sixth ward of New Brunswick,
was ~accosted by five Italians near Ed
ward Radel's place near Bound
Brook while on his way home late
yesterday afternoon. One of them
asked Gold the way to the Newark
plank road and he directed them to-
wards Bound Brook. Two of the five
carried guns and one had a satchel.
Two Italians were arrested at
Westfield on a trolley car bound for
Dunellen, by officers McCreth and
Caulfeld. Each carried a double-bar-
relied gun. They claimed to be Eliz-
abeth shoemakers.
w. S. Harkins has gone to West
field to try to identify them.
-Four Men Demanded n Ride.
James McAvoy, a driver for the
Eastern Bottling Company, of South
Plainfeld, was hailed by four men
near Stelton late in the afternoon,
and they demanded a ride in his
wagon. They were ro~ugh-looking
characters and McAvoy let them get
in. They left him at New Durham.
All four had guns.
Chased Men Into Swamp.
County Detective Mulvey and Con-
stable Grover, in the same buggy in
which Schieck and Harkins were held
up and in which Charles Stone, the
farmer who lives "a the race track
and saw the holdup, rode to New
Brunswick after the holdup and re-
ported it, started out to search for
the bandits. When near the estate
of Robert Adrain on the River road
towards Bound Brook, they saw four
suspicious-appearing men. Going TO
a farmhouse nearby the officers Sc
cured two shotguns and a white and
a negro farmland as aides, and start
ed after the quartet, tracking them
over the fields by the footprints in
the muddy earth. They. traced them
as far as a large swamp, where the
tracks were lost. The officers re-
turned to New Brunswick about Z
O'Clock.
Detective Frawley, Il railroad Off
Ger, and two officers of the Quarry
Company, which lost the money,
came here from Trenton and offered
a reward of $1,000 for the capture
of the h~ighwaymen.
At the railroad station they en-
countered Michael Stafford who said
he had seer four men crossing the
railroad tracks.
May Have Come From Rocky Hill.
1t is the opinion of many that the
Italians came from Rocky Hill, where
the company has a quarry, knowing
that the paymaster was due yester-
day.
The crew of the trolley car which
left Perth Amboy at 8 O'Clock yester-
day morning for New Brunswick say
that they had an Italian passenger
and that, while passing the clump of
woods where the holdup later occur
red, the Italian went out on the rear
platform and shouted a message to
a man standing on the edge of the
woods. The fellow in the woods was
a big fellow and answered the de-
scription of the leader of the band.
Mr.. Montgomery, of Trenton, the
head of the Delaware River Quarry
& Construction Company, has COM
m%unicated with the authorities of all
places in this end of the county and
adjacent territory Offering the $1,000
reward.
Exact Amount Not Known.
Mr.. Schieck refuses to tell how
much money he had in the satchel.
He has carried as much as $4,000,
but yesterday, owing to the holiday,
the amount was smaller that that. 1t
is somewhere between $4,000 and
1900.
Further details of the holdup
show that the highwaymen all
armed. Three had revolvers and two
had guns All but one were masked.
The fellow who did not hide his face
was the largest of the band and seem
ed to be the leader. 1t was he who
stepped out first and grabbed the
horse.