The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-10
Orange Grain Merchant
Attacked Back Of Ills
South Orange Home.
CHARLES SMALLEY FOUGHT
Negro Got Him to Go to Barn on
Pretext and When There He
Was Assaulted. AsSailantS
Obtained No Money..Fled
and We're Not Caught.

Two bold negro hold-up men attacked
Charles w. Smalley, a grain merchant OF
Orange, In the stable at the rear of his
home, Hixon place and Academy street
! South Orange, last night about 6:15 o'clock
One Of the thugs hit Smalley over the
head with a blunt instrument, from which
he afterward became unconscious, but not
until he had put mp a good fight against
the pair. Two physicians were called to
attend Mr.. Smalley, and succeeded in re-
viving him.
The attack was probably premeditated,
and the intention of the men was evil
IDENTIFY to rob Mr.. Smalley at all hazards.
One of the pair knocked at the side door
of the Smalley home and told Mr.. Smalley
that he had left his overalls with his
coachman, Joseph Jackson. a negro, and
asked him to open the stable and give him
the overalls.
Mr.. Smalley procured lantern and
walked to the barn, about seventy-flve feet
away. with the negro. Here the negro
said he was sorry to trouble Mr. Smalley,
who first asked him If he had been at the
barn before. Tho negro replied that he
had been, at the stable, but had not en-
tered
Mr.. Smalley and the negro then entered
the door. Instantly Smalley was hit on
the head behind the right ear. He realized
at once his predicament and started to
grapple with sne negro. Another negro
whom he had not seen came to his COM
panion's assistance. and Smalley cried for
help. as did the negro whom he had ac-
companied from the house.
The tussle in the barn and the shouts
were heard in the Smalley house, and Mrs
William Everett Ward, daughter of Mr.
Smalley, who was in the house. ran out In
time to see the assailants Of her father
running across the fields In the direction OF
Valley street. Her father was found nm
conscious near the barn and carried to the
house, when DR.. George II. Cobb and DR..
Francis 10. Knowles were summoned to at
tend him. He recovered, but Is confined 10
his home today by the wound inflicted.
The police and neighbOrs hunted for the
negroes, but were unable to find any trace
of them.
The police believe the negroes thought
Mr.. Snalley had large sum of money on
his person because he makes large collec-
tions in his grain business The man that
called at the door is described as a light
colored negro. about feet inches in
height, wearing light suit and a light
soft hat.
MIR. SmaIley questioned his coachman as
to whether or not he received overalls
from the two assailants, but jackson said
he did not know of any one leaving over
alls in the stable at any time.
John Wells, another negro, who at one
time was in the employ of Mr. Smalley
and had slept in the Smalley stable. was
accused of being implicated in the hold
up by villagers, and he at once went to
the South Orange police station and asked
Marshal Thomas f. Mcguire that police
man be sent to the Smalley home with
him IL order that he be cleared of it.
Mr.. Smalley, however, said that Wells was
not one of the men who had struck him.
Mr.. Smalley was at one time proprietor
of the South Orange Hotel, at South Or
ange avenue and Valley street. South Or
ange, and is well known in his home vil-
lage.