The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-09-02
BOLD THIEVES
ATTACK WOMAN ON NEW YORK
STREET

And When She Showed Fight They
Threw Her in Front Of Car Which
Mashed Her.
Two highwaymen on robbing a
we'll dressed woman at Ninetieth
street and Amsterdam Avenue, at
jl2:15 a. M, Tuesday, in New York,
became so infuriated when she
screamed and tried to fight that they
dragged her from the sidewalk and
hurled her in the path of a trolley
car. AS the car crushed the life out
of her, they escaped.
The woman, who appeared to be
about IS years old. was seen walk
ling fast through Ninety-frst street,
apparently coming from the subway
istation at Ninety-frst street and
! broadway. In her right hand she
carried a reticule and she seemed to
be hurrying home.
SuS SOQll az <Ah1SlIi OS@4l
avenue and was walking past a va
cant lot enclosed by a fence ten feet
high. AS she reached the corner the
men sprang out at her. One seized
her handbag and tried to wrest it
from her grasp, while his companion
beat her in the face.
J The woman fought the men off and
screamed until the man behind be-
gan choking her. Still she fought
with her free hand, holding the bag
with the other.
The woman was seen struggling
land heard screaming by some men
at Eighty-ninth street. At first they
believed the men and woman were
engaged in horse-piay. An Amster.
Jam avenue car came whizzing down
the grade between Ninetieth and
Ninety-second streets in charge OF
Motorman Thomas King, and John
Meehan. King saw the struggle c
Itae sidewalk and saw the men drag
, the woman over the curbing. Just
as his car got almost opposite them
one of the men seized the woman BY
the shoulders while the second man
, having forced the handbag from her
seized her wrist and pulled her for
ward.
AS the car came upon the trio, the
> two men lifted the woman from the
ground and hurled her across the
tracks. The fender passed over the
woman and she was caught under the
!. guard. The car could not be stopped
such was its momentum, until it hae
Preached Eighty-ninth street. The
woman was then fast under the
: wheels.
Conductor Meehan and severa
passengers had witnessed the mur
Ider. They sprang from the car ant
slwhen the two men began to run cas-
:. through Ninetieth street. the conduc
; tor and the passengers followed. One
of the men was seen to enter tht
rear door Of saloon at the southeas
corner. When Meehan tried to ge
Into the place the door was locked
1.-The second man continued to ru1
and was seen to enter the stable O.
Phillip Wagner and Sons. Severa
men ran into the stable and thel
waited the arrival of the police.
When the woman was attacked
Police Stanton. Ryan, Snyder ant
sTooney heard her screams. and were
running toward the scene when thu
car crushed out her life. They fol
: sflowed the conductor and passengers
and at the rear entrance Of the sa
iloon they beat in the door.
At the entrance they found thu
woman's reticule. It contained
and a handkerchief, on which
i was the initial III" The handker
chief was not cheap, and the initia
was hand-embroidered. No one wa:
found in the saloon, and when the
l police reserves came they surroudec
> the block.
On entering the stable the police
found the passengers talking with
Imam who said he was James Dunn
90 years old.
A policeman seized Dunn and de-
manded that he explain his presnece
,, in the stable.
I'm employed here" said Dunn
!"I have not left the stable tonight
land have not seen stranger enter
know absolutely nothing about this
/ only wish I did.
I The police took Dunn to the sta
ton house and locked him up on
suspicion. A search of every house
on the block was then made, but
no suspicious person found.
All this took place while the
body of the woman was pinned
under the car while men strain
led to lift it from the trucks.
IA w.reckig car was called and
| the body was released after half
| an hour The police ther- arrested
lMotorman King. who had collapsed.
land made a technical c-.aree Of homi-
eide against him. Conductor -nee-
Ehan was held as a witness.
There was absolutely nothing
about the woman by which she could
be Identified except the letter "H''
lon her handkerchief. Her clo-ues
were clean and we'll made. and the
|sugges+ion was made that she was
strained nurse.