New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-16
Two Men Put Driver and Helper
Off Wagon Seat at Points
of Rev0IverS and Get
1850.
ESCAPE WITH LOOTED RIG
Pretty Girl Accompanies Well
Dressed Bandits Crowds
See Robbery and Run
ming Pistol Fight
Thieves Get Away.

4ulcNCS 0ct AWAY.
| The quiet Arlington section Of East
New York woke up from its noon doze
yesterday to the crack Of revolvers her.
aiding one Of the nerviest daylight rob-
| berries perpetrated fl the city's streets
since the automobile series In February.
| Two debonair young chaps who had just
been flirting with a pretty girl on Il
| sidewalk Of Etna street stepped into the
| middle Of the street as an Abraham &
Straus delivery wagon appeared, held up
the driver and his assistant, displaced
them and drove off with $500, while
the erstwhile driver blazed away from
| behind in the street and one OF the rob-
bers returned his fire from the tail Of
| the disappearing cart.
Through Logan street to Fulton gall
loped the delivery horse under the lash
ings Of the taller Of the highwaymen. At
|
him up sitting, threw the reins over his
back while the confederate grabbed the
satchel with the $500, and both lisap-
peared aboard an Il" train. That was
the last seen of them up TO late hour
| last night.
| Arthur J. Lockhart, who has charge ot
the Abraham & Straus suburban deliv-
| cry depot in East New York. and WILL
! lam X. Robertson, his cashier, both
young men in the twenties. are In the
habit Of driving every Wednesday noon
| to the Goth Ward Branch Of the Me-
chancs' Bank OF Brooklyn with the
depot's receipts. Yesterday Lockhart held
| the reins. Robertson sat by his side,
with his feet on a satchel containing
1868 64 in cash ard checks enough TO
bring the total to 81, 800 Their horse
was amblng along hardly faster than
walk through Etna street. on whose
| shaded stoops sat an assortment Of
neighbors dgesting their noon meals.
Running Fight Begins.
| Inc TWO yOulS Slcppcu pOl
and stopped the delivery wagon so
quietly that only Lockhart and Robert
| son heard the curt command. Hands
| up" one OF the robbers had the horse
by the bride, and the other was point
ing an ugly blue revolver a the pair on
| the drivers seat.
| Lockhart in a dazed way made move
to draw the pistol he carries TO protect
his cash but the robber covering him
leaped on the wagon step like a fash
and punched him so hard in the jaw
! that his hands shot up over his head as
| If his adversary had touched a spring
Robertson at the same time tried to
kick the satchel full of money under
the seat. and was pulled of the wagon ,
for his pains, satchel and all, by the
other robber, who was by this time salts.
fed the horse would stand alone
| Lockhart was ordered off the wagon.
| too. and the two were made TO stand
| together at the curb with their hands
up, while the young highwaymen Jumped
! into their vehicle with the satchel OF
money. whipped up the horse and left
them there.
AS the runaways turned the corner
into Logan street Lockhart and Robert
son took up the chase, yelling for the
police, Lockhart stopping Oh occasion TO
pump few bullets into the rear Of III,
wagon. This only drew the fire Of ths
bandit. who wasn't driving, but who sat
instead dangling his feet over the tall
board of the covered wagon. jolting
about and shooting. None of the bullets
fired on either side did any damage.
Many innocent bystanders" joined in
the pursuit with impunity as the robbers
drove madly through Logan street for
three blocks. but all the pursuers wer"
far in the rear when the two reached
the elevated, and by the time they canle
upon the halted wagon and sweating
horse the highwaymen had vanished.
Pretty Girl Stall"
The reserves Of the Liberty avenue
station and its entire detective force
were hustled out on the case. They
pressed two automobiles into service.
but without result All they could d.
was to march Lockhart and Robertson
70 the station house, there to convince
the captain that they had not framed
ND" the robbery and be released.
Members Of the Etna Club, the veranda
of whose clubhouse, at Etna and Logan
streets. AFFORDED the best view to be had
of the hold-up and running fusillade, told
the police they had noticed the two
Young bandits walking up and down
Etua street some time before the deliv-
cry wagon appeared They had remarked
them as strangers to the neighborhood
and as well dressed young men looking
like ready money" but particularly as
the escorts Of a remarkably pretty gir,
who left them two or three times to walk
alone in an opposite direction and then
return.
II is supposed the girl acted as
"loolxout." The police are not altogether
skeptical of the theory that she Is or
was an Abraham & Straus employe VINO
knew of the regular Wednesday trip 10
,ho hank with the cash receipts of the
suburban depot. and OF the route which
Iockhart invariably took, and informed
her pals of the opportunity to nab a
r.snectable sum Of money. She had
von;sbed before the hostilities began.
The members Of the Etna Club were at