New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-30
ROBBERS At ARDSLEY
Five Men Blow Safe in Ticket
Office and Escape with Booty.
AGENT FIRES ON THIEVES
They Reach Motor Boat and
Start Down River with De
tectives in Pursuit.

BY finger prints On window. detectives
on the New York Central Railroad hope
n capture the river pirates who broke into
the railroad station at Ardsley-on- Hudson
yesterday morning and blew open and
robbed the safe in the ticket Office. Chief
Detective Miles had the glass removed and
taken to New York Police Headquarters
for examination.
That the robbers We're prepared - XIII
z. II. Hampstead. tho station agent and
postmaster the police have no doubt
From evidence found after the robbery
one man stood sentry a. the door NJ the
ticket Office while tho other watched from
behind a post on tho station platform. The
mon we're fully armed and had not Mrs.
Hampstead followed her husband into the
upper hall ~ the station and held him
back. nc would have gone below 10 his
death
The thieves first made their appearance
az the Dobbs Ferry station at II o'clock.
when five men stopped the night watch
man and asked him what kind Of q station
was Al Ardsley-if IT did large business
and II there was night Waterman there.
He told them that the station agent slept
upstairs and gave them other information
and they departed toward the river, where
they got in a boat and steamed north.
A there is a Waterman at Ardsley until
I o'clock. the men had 70 wait and they
did not put into Ardsey until a half hour
| sfterward. Detectives plainly saw their
tracks about three hundred feet south or
the station. one man stayed IN the boat
and the others went to do the job. The
window on the riverside was PRED open
and IL vas on this glass that the finger
marks we're found. When the robbers got
inside they turned of all the electric lights
and proceeded 20 blow the safe with nitro
gylcerine.
n was rne noise from the explosion that
woke Captain Hampstead. He opened the
door above and called ont 70 the night
Waterman What's the matter, Harry?
| Then he smelled smoke Going back 70 his
room he told his wife that something had
happened and he got his gun. Mrs. Hemp
stead sounded the alarm 70 the clubhouse
and then followed her husband. He wanted
70 go down stairs. but she saw a man
standing on guard by the ticket Office door
and pulled her husband back. Nir. Hemp
stead then rushed ont on the bridge lead
ing 10 the club and called for help trying
70 arouse the club members. Then he went
back 20 the bridge over the track and
reeping over saw man standing behind
the post He raised his revolver and fred
70 kill and then Jumped back for fear The
man would return the IRE. He then fred
IN the air. The robbers became frightened
and ran down the tracks.
Tn the mean time. James Golfer, Al en-
gineer. came running I'D and Captain
Hampstead and his wife went down
stairs and turned on the lights. Mrs
Hampstead heard the robbers talking IN
low voice 70 the south Of the sta
ton a. her husband and Golfer were
investigating what had happened. The safe
door was wide open. tho lock having been
blown 70 pieces and rs contents rihed
Mr. Hampstead immediately informed the
Irwin ton police and they sent out an
alarm. The police patrol boat at Yonkers
started III the river. but lid not get the
thieves. who are believed 10 have escaped
In q u1otorhoat
Mr.. Hampstead had taken most n his