The sun., 1905-09-07
STOLEN CASH OR STOLEN KISS.
COUNTER CHARGES BY TENEMENT
OWNER AND JANITOR.

Kramer Says the Logans Took S3S From
Him in Closed ROOm-WOman says
He Waylaid Her in the Cellar-POlice
Day On-Court Throws Out Case.
Michael Kramer Of 742 Sixth street made
a complaint Of robbery in the Yorkvnle
police court yesterday against Michael
Logan and his wife Kate. Logan Is the
janitor OF tenement house which Kramer
owns at 3lS East Seventieth street. He
retorted that the charge was made because
he raised objection to the landlord kissing
his wife in his absence.
Mrs. Logan is comely woman, under
80 years, with blue eyes and rosy cheeks.
She was arrested on Tuesday night by
Detective Byrnes Of the East Sixty-seventh
street station after the landlord had gone
to the station and lodged complaint.
The janitor was arrested in court yester day.
He walked in and took a seat among the
spectators. and the detective arrested him
and put him in the prisoners box with his
wife.
Kramer alleged that the janitor and his
wife had -held him up in their rooms and
relieved him Of $25 which he had In his
trousers pocket. He had a roll Of $500 in
another pocket, he said, which they did not
disturb.
In the examination before Magistrate
Cornell Kramer said he went to his
Seventieth street house Monday to collect
the rents. When he went into the rooms
Of the janitor in the basement, be asserted,
Logan closed the door and locked 1t and
then closed the windows. He didn't know
what this proceeding meant until the jani-
tors wife approached with an uplifted
ceaver and warned him to stand still II
he valued his life Then, according to his
story, the husband searched his pockets
and took the $25.
when you left the house, didn't you
see policeman on the corner?" counsel
for the prisoners asked.
There might have been one there
didn't notice, :" the complainant replied.
did you make complaint to him or at
the station that day?'
+No, it was Labor Day and didn't think
the police were working. l went to the
station house the next day
janitor's wife wife in the cellar9s asked the
lawyer, suddenly taking another tack.
ME kiss the woman? Never replied
the landlord.
Haven't you been trying to make love
TO MrS. Logan LOT seVeIdl WocAs'
what, me? No, no.
let me ask you. Are you married
mani" the Magistrate inquired of the COM
plainant.
.Yes, your Honor. I'm married and I've
got nine children"
The lawyer asked him il he had not told
some Of the tenants that he regarded the
janitor's wife as fine looking woman.
NO, sir. One Of the women tenants
told me that the janitor's wife liked me
very much. didn't say she was in love
with me-.
Mrs. Logan was called up on the bridge
and she declared that the landlord had
kissed her in the cellar.
1T was so sudden l couldn't prevent it.
That was two weeks ago. l didn't tell
my husband then, for we needed the jani-
tors job and knew it would stir up bad
blood IL told Michael" the woman said.
After time she did inform her husband
she added, and when the landlord visited
the house last Monday her husband closed
the door and taxed him with insulting
his wife According to her story, the three
had talk over the matter and the landlord
left the house in an excited frame OF mind
She declared that there was no attempt
at robbery. Her husband told similar
story
Several witnesses came forward to give
good characters to the prisoners. Magis-
trate Cornell said he did not believe there
was any robbery and discharged them.