The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-25
ROBBER JEW SHOOTS WOMAN.
STRANGE DAYLIGHT CRIME Nv
MRS, MAX MEISEES HONE.

MIX NIeISt hIbStu LILO Wis Gil llTeD
and eft his home, at 200 Hopkins street,
B:ooAljn, at O'Clock yesterday morning
for his shirt factory, at So Manhattan avenue.
young man who na1 been sting on the
stop, elll>si W, saw WAC it was and
sl,uoaed after M,lssl for couple Of locks.
Me!s.l tu-n,i ths co,nsr ami the young
man wal ied sloSly back to the house and
went in.
Mrs. Mescl was scrubbing away over a
washtuo d nonis 81 "a min in her earrn g
and a d anond ring on her finger. The
Meist l. are Ii OF AMI own the apartment
house where they We, besides hav ng money
in the bank. A noay the VII ansburg
Jews they are looked upon as wealthy
PEG, l..
The liar oh lren, sa1lie and Jacob who
are ami respectively, had been sent to
school. The others, Sara, who is g. Julian,
2. and Jennie, the two-months-old baby,
were in the kitchen with their mother. Lena
Warzkowski, the maid, had been sent on
an Grand.
The young man who had entered the
house raped on the door and Mrs. Meisel
answered the knock, her hands dripping
suds, the children hanging to her skirts.
He was rather a prese ntable young man.
perhaps 20 years old, about s feet inches
tall, dark in complexion, with thick curly
hair, and was dressed in dark clothes and
a black deroy hat. He smiled and Mrs.
Meisel noticed that he had a gold front
tooth. He fid yeted from one foot to the
other. He spoke to Mrs. Meise in Yiddish.
He looked Jew all over.
Can you give me work." he asked. Il
need work badly
Go see my hush and, said Mrs. Meisel
and SIZE gave him Max's factory address in
Manhattan avenue. SIZE glanced at the
young man and caught him looking at her
sparkling earrings. There was an ex-
preston in his face ttat made her nervous
GO away" she said. Il can't do any
thing for you
He thanked her politely enough, with
his eyes on her diamonds and she shut the
door in Lis face. SIZE wasn't scared, lecause
it was 10 O'Clock in tie morning Tie
street outside was full of PEOPLE, men passing,
children play ing all and trucks rafting by.
Next door size heard Mrs. Moses kaimer at
work and TIE little kaimers squabbling.
1t may lave IL cen a quarter OF an hour
later when there was another sharp rap on
the door. Mrs. Meisel orened it and the
same young man pushed asst ter and waved
a shiny revolver at her and at the children,
who rad iegun to CRY. The woman was
too frightened to call out. SIZE lacked
into corner and got in front of the children,
who huddled behind her.
Give me tho &c earrings and that ring Z"
said the young man Give 'em to me
quick. Don't you dare to scream or III
kill you"
Little Sara screamed as hard as she
&C uld and the man clicked at her. catching
tn child IN the leg and hr,lsing it ably.
That turned the mo ther into tigress and
MADE her forget her own terror. She is
a little VIC man, frai and with not much
more strength than a child, but she grappled
the fellow who had hurt her little girl and
struck him in the face. The servant girl.
Lena came intro m the street at that moment,
saw what was going on ard collapsed on
the fCor. too scared to move.
Ihe young man hit Mrs. Meisel in the
breast, kno cking her down. He tried to
tear OF the diane nds from her, tear
ing the ear. She got 10 her feet somehow
and started fer the parlor screaming for
hep ana crying for Lena to run out and
get the police.
Damn you, stop that said the robter.
I'm shoot il you dc MT.
The servant got to her feet and he felled
her with the butt OF his pistol, making an
ugly bruiso on her mouth. Then he leveled
the pistol aud shot Mrs. Mesal in the right
shoulder. She was down and up again in
a second, screaming Ike mad. He shot
al t,,tN -
and into her right lung. She dropped
scnSelesS.
The robber heard people moving in the
stairway and he ran out, shutting the door
behind him. Mrs. Kaimer, who had been
too unnervcd to do anything but listen
in her own room, got glimpse of him as
he ran down the stairs, Children in the
street saw him running for blocks and
disappear into Myrtle avenue.
Several people had heard the shots.
Charles Popp, grocer ut sos Marcy avenue,
and Policeman Dopavan of the Vernon
avenue station ran to the house ana into
the lle!sel apartment. The children we're
CRYING over Their mother their little hands
stained with blood from her wounds. The
servant glr waS unconscious.
ID naNan ,ailod an ambulance from the
Eastern District liz spital. Dr.. Dean
thought at first that the VT man was dead,
but Ee worked With her awhile and n,ted
hat her heart still beat family. He got
her to the h. spitol quickly and he surgee ms
st arted probing for the bullets. They got
one out of the right shoulder under the
armyt The other, for which they cid
net dare to probe, was lodged in the right
and told him that Mrs. Meisel had small
chance to recover.
The Cor, ner took her antc-mortem
statement when they revived her and she