The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-05
pOS7NAS7ER PUT TO SLEEP.
., ooo m STAMPS AND COIN VAN
EN- ~ THE LONG EARLY MIST.

,ea, at Mariners Harb0r Crossed
-, swarthy Marauder From the XIII
'.n Kul,-Eariy Firecrackers Bring
timely Relief-sleutts Have Theory.
The good folk OF Mariners Harbor,
c.i,.n Islond. want to know who struck
.heir good postmaster, William Elmer
,ie..,den and left him unconscious for
i1.ao-ouarters of an hour. Is there q band
:, ,rates they wonder, stealing across
". KIN Van Kull under cover OF the long
.,v fog of the morning and landing upon
The coast Of Richmond terrace on murder
IA ronine bentp Will others who go to
cork in the early morning be kicked in
,hs stomach and robbed and pounded and
,.s for dead? Will the police do nothing3
w.in the Government not protect the early
bird? ,,
az, GOOD man and got up early In the
arrino TO give their mail to working
aarle that he was kicked and the Govern
,on, was robbed. If he had stayed In bed,
ito some postmasters he would have been
..fs from harm AS it was, he was a hard
sorker Even on the morning Of the Fourth
q ,h,lv a morning when he had to have a
oomnass to find his way through the fog,
was he not sorting the mail before o'clock
md making everything ready for the people
vhom he served'
PERHAPS II Lissenden Kwossak the post
casters little godson, hadn't got up early
lso to shoot off his bunch OF frecrackers
,ith little Roger Conklin, the good man
.o,,ldnt have recovered. For when Lis
enden and Roger had exhausted their
ammunition they went into the post Office
10 see Lissie's godfather. They saw him
and were deeply impressed. There on the
floor he lay with his hands clutched tightly
to his stomach and his face covered with
hood. Lissie's parents live next door to
the post Office and home he ran.
-Mudder," 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 Lissie
to call the men out Of Careys on the corner
anything was the matter. Lissie ran
with all his might but Roger had got ahead
Of him, and a mixed crowd of late sitters
and early risers poured out OF the saloon
Iissie and Roger had said. There were
red coagulated blood on his face and evil
ience OF violent jar to his solar pleAus
in the posture of his hands. They saw
ioo what the boys did not, the safe door
wide oren and the inner chambers empty.
Doctor and policeman were summoned
Nnutaneousy. Before the doctor ar
rived, the postmaster had recovered con-
tciousness and been helped home, where the
physician patched up his wounds. Then
The policeman came. He found sa,t the post as
tween the pancakes and the coffee the officer
got this story
The postmaster got up early and went
to the Office. He wanted to get everything
ehpshape. for he opened earlier than usual
on holidays and the Office needed attention.
Fint, he opened his safe and looked over ,
began sweeping the sidewalk.
When he had finished he went to the
back part of the Office and there was a
Uarthy complexioned man, five feet six
ahes tall and $50 pounds In weight. with
lheavy black mustache and black clothes
nd hat. The man was going through
be safe. The postmaster expostulated.
he man did the rest, but it wasn't fair
light Elmer caught a glimpse OF a foot
chrhng through the mist, felt it's impact
sainst the stomach and knew nothing
more for three-quarters OF an hour.
The first thing he did when he reoo vered
conscio, lsness was to look through the safe.
He couldn't find $500 in money or $500 IN
stamps that had been there.
The rear door OF the post Office was open
and the lock broken, Perhaps the mysteri-
Gus marauder forced his way into the Office
through the rear and made his escape in
the same direction. There was narrow
alley through which he may have darted
and run unobserved to the shore. There a
quick leap into boat and one long pull
at the oars would have taken him out CT
sight in the fog The mariners of Mariners
Hill think that ia the way he came and went.
Many secret is carried away by the ebb
and flow of the Kill Van Kull. they say;
The police of the Eighty-first precinct have
their theory. but the captain doesn't 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 he
worked on the case yesterday afternoon.
Mr. lissenden is prominent in the Re,
publican politics Of Mariners Harbor and
Vicinity and has held Office over six years.
There is no inclination anywhere, so far
as is known, to doubt the story he tells
hat doesn't even occur to the townsfoik
who know him, All that they think about
that he has been brutally maltreated,
and they want to know who did it.
As great mystery as the Billy Patter-
eon cas..' said one Of them yesterday.
never knew Billy Patterson, but I'll
let he wasn't as good man as Elmer Lis
sehden, who's lived here all his life and
never done mean thing, and III bet the
man who hi Patterson wasn't half rs low
coward as the loafer that kicked Elmer.
ne postmaster had abrasions of the skin
on the forehead and upper part of the nose
ana was pretty badly battered about the
lace At his house Yesterday noon 1t was
tald that the doctor had advised him to go
% bed and see no one for the remainder