The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-05
MINISTER PUT TO SLEEP.
am ~ STAMPS AND COIN VAN
~ "a TUE LONG EARLY MIST.

kH IN mr. '"''"
,o,, at Mariners Harbor Crossed
..or,h, Mara,dcr From tho XIII
Y,n Kur Earl, Firccrackers Bring
rnnc, relief Sleuths Have Theory.
.,ol folk Of Mariners Harbor,
~ Island. want to know who struck
c,od postmaster, William Elmer
,,lon. and left him unconscious for
,",,r,rtcrs of an hour Is there band
.,.o,as they wonder, stealing across
vH, Van Eg!, under cover Of the long
.t,, If the morning and landing upon
oa,e, Of Richmond Terrace on murder
lin, lrnt9 Win others who 60 to
!. ~ me early morning be kicked in
s,or,ach and robbed and pounded and
~, Jsad? Wal the police do nothing?
,bo Government not protect the early
iscause Elmer Lissenden was a
nool man and got up early in the
,;oo IN give their mail to working
'la tha, he was kicked and the Govern
-, wa. robled. If he had stayed in bed,
,ono postmaster-, he would have been
sn'n, harm. A. it was, he was q hard
.,ar Even ON the morning of che Fourth
,T,. , morning when he had to have q
,na.a TO fad his way through the fog,
\ he not sorting the mail before Q O'Clock
Mating everything ready for the people
om he served
arba,. if Lissenden kwossak, the post
TORS little godson, hadn't got up early
II N shoot Of his bunch Of hrecrackers
n little Roger Conlilin, the good man
tIjr't have recovered. For when Lis
,en and Roger had exhausted their
m,pitjon they went into the post Office
ee Li.-ie's godfather. They saw him
were deeply impressed. There on the
he Law with his hands clutched tightly
sis stomach and his face covered with
NJ. Lissle's parents live next door to
post Office and home he ran.
Mudder,' said he breathlessly, "godpa
cot the stomach ache and the nose
ID. Run quick,
sause it was holiday, Mrs. kwossak
sleeping overtime. She told Lissie
all the men out of Carey's on the corner
ANYTHING wa, the matter. Lissie ran
all his might, but Roger had got ahead
nm. and mixed crowd of late sitters
early ri-erS poured out of the saloon
They found Lissenden much as
e and Roger had said. There were
oacuated blood on his face and evil
e Of violent jar to his solar plexus
he posture of his hands. They saw,
what the boys did not. the safe door
ouen and the inner chambers empty,
ytor and policeman were summoned
ll,aneous,y Before the doctor ar
the postmaster had recovered con-
BUSINESS and been helped home, where the
Fddan patched up his wounds. Then
Policeman came. He found the post
Ter eating a hearty breakfast. Be-
this story:
be- postmaster got up early and went
BE- office He wanted to get everything
shape, for he opened earlier than usual
holidays and the office needed attention.
he opened his safe and looked over
books. then grabbed his broom and
hr sweeping the sidewalk.
hen he had finished he went to the
part Of the Office and there was a
rhy complexioned man, five feet six
Is tall and $50 pounds in weight, with
ky black mustache and black clothes
hat. The man was going through
afe. The postmaster expostulated.
man did the rest, but it wasn't a fair
Elmer caught a glimpse OF a foot
Lg through the mist, felt its impact
tst the stomach and knew nothing
for three-quarters Of an hour.
hrst thing he did when he reco vered
cousness was to look through the safe.
|Nuldn't find 5000 in money or $500 In
b. that had been there.
rear door of the post Office was open
he lock broken. Perhaps the mysteri-
narauder forced his way into the Office
lsh the rear and made his escape in
FAME direction There was a narrow
through which he may have darted
1lE unobserved to the shore. There a
leap into boat and one long pull
be oars would have taken him out Of
in the fog. The mariners of Mariners
hlnk that is the way he came and went.
ny secret is carried away by the ebb
ow Of the Kill Van kull, they say.
folice of the Eighty-trst precinct have
theory, but the captain doesn't believe
ght n disclose it. His men are work.
(n the case and expect developments.
lptlIlel inlet IOSt O1llce inspector
T. who lives at West Brighton. and he
on the case yesterday afternoon.
l.issenden is prominent In the Re-,
an politics of Mariners Harbor and
b. and has held Office over ak years.
is no inclination anywhere, so far
known, to doubt the story he tells.
ioesn't even occur to the tOwnsf ok
now him. All that they think about
he has been brutally maltreated,
fey want to know who did it.
great mystery as the Billy Patter-
Fse:' said one of them yesterday.
yer knew Billy Patterson, but I'll
wasn't rs good man as Elmer Lis
who's lived here all his life and
done a mean thing and III bet the
no hit Patterson wasn't half as low
rd as the loafer that kicked Elmer.
postmaster had abrasions Of the skin
forehead and upper part Of the nose
as pretty badly battered about the
1t his house yesterday noon 1t was
hat the doctor had advised him to 60
and see no one for the remainder
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