The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-27
WOMAN DRUGGED AND ROBBED
MRS. GOLDBERG SAYS THE THIEF
USED CHLOROFORM

And Tied Her Hands Behind Her Back
Overcome by the Fumes, Too
Tailor VINO was Caught by Neigh
bors Beaten Badly and Locked Up.
Joseph Wolostein, a Russian Jew who
sews b~uttonholes for a living, was standing
in a doorway at 212 East Ninety-sixth street
shortly after midnight yesterday morning
when three men came down the stairs
within on the run n pounced upon him.
They BACKED his eyes, broke his nose and
then turned him over to Policeman Hazlitt
OF the East Eighty-eighth street station,
saying that something dreadful had hap
pened in the rooms of Mrs. Nellie Munson
upstairs, and. although they didn't know
what 1t was, they were sure that Wolostein
was responsible.
Morris A. Goldberg, Morris Barrow and
Louis Dropkin, the men who had acted 30
promptly in catching the alleged criminal,
together with the policeman, then made
their way up to the rooms Of Mrs Munson
on the top ioor OF the fiat house at 2i2.
According to the record in the police blotter
and the statements given by the three men
in the Harlem court yesterday, they found
Mrs. Munson trussed up with a rope, her
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There was a smell Of chloroform in the
room.
Mrs. Munson was gagged with a hand
kerchief soaked in chloroform, 80 her res
cuers said. There was a half filed bottle
of the same liquid on the floor by the side
of her bed and a handkerchief also saturated
on the bed, where she had tossed it with a
fling OF her head. A bureau drawer had
been opened and $50 taken.
When the woman was released she said
that while she was sleeping a man came
in he room and attempted to chloi Dorm
her. h awoke and tried to fight him
of, but he hit her on the wrist with the
bottle and kept on applying the chloroform.
Then she lost consciousness.
Upon awakening she ound that her hands
were tied behind her and a piece Of the
same heavy Irvine wrapped securely about
her feet. From where she lay she could see
that her little dog was also apparently
chloroformed as well as being tied to the
leg of the table. The window leading out
onto the fire escape was open.
Mrs. Munson said hat the first thing
she did when she awoke was to lean over
n pick up one of her shoes, even though
her hands were still tied behind her. With
this she pounded on the wall separating
her fiat from that Of Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Goldberg next door.
"I5 NhNlHsOh CApldIhcu yorlCIddy Iudbs
since her husband is a waiter employed
at some distance from home and never
gets back from work until after 2 O'Clock
in the morning. she had arranged a signal
of distress with Mrs. Goldberg to be used
in case she ever found herself in danger.
This alarm was to he a vigorous rapping
on the wall separating her fat from that
of the Goldber9s.
The Goldbergs were entertaining at cards
on Sunday night. When the pounding
pvaa hAarA an Tho wwaIl kahsn1 NkA,- I,,~A,.,
Mrs. Goldberg instantly recognized il as
the distress signal agreed upon, so she said
to-day, and told her husband and guests
that something dreadful was surely going
on in the Munson apartments. hat inn
PEELED the three men to race downstairs
and assail the Russian ~buttonhole stitcher
standing in the doorway.
The police convinced Magistrate Breen
in the Harlem court yesterday that the
evidence against Wolostein was sufficient
to warrant his being held for examination.
The man was consequently held without
bail to appear to-day.