The evening world., 1912-02-15
ORDERED DRIVER TO STOP TAXI.

A. me All approached he busy corner OF Park Place and Church stree, thu
mn bNunS beside Martini sid to him: HalIftru1 r~wrr od'' "
.t when yu eM to tho corner yu stop. AND don Gat on the box and don't
max . sound. That's all you've got to TO-
Martini frightened more than overt because he &d not know what - coming
the corner Of The crossing Of Park place AZ to what happened sftor tina. he is
rsthee vaguA H heard IN door, of tina cab pen nd close again with . bang
and cav two mon leap from inside Just n the nan who had boon beside him
jumped to thu roadway. There va . harset touring ar standing ner the corner
asd Martini Mid that he thought tn thresm non q to IT, rot In ne Of tn mon
takas ts whssa and that the machine started away at NICE.
But Ne iChct-Nner In the norHhound once Ut the Park Place station OF the
u.M ayenue eevstedr railroad toll a romewbn, dnwut story of n. nnsis os
~ sSsssy. He said that th~e men. wthdsyed. beAhisss and shading with
esdtsment dashed u to his window Just after II O'Clock. There IA . Harlem
tr1En NabduG IN II stauon.
The nN u te three zen VA tall. skinny. wore . black souch hat and
d0k clothes" h odd HI seemed to be abu twenty-five years old. I didn't
9 . ok At thu other exospt to zee that they wro shorter.
The Arvt nan damned n quarters ntot he window at mo- I'M yelled: Three
fs REACHED through W grabbed three tickets out OF IN and before he'd torn
hem OH, and tn three made the train In about tTce Jumps. just ~ the gates
~ demmd"
After the thrcc men had made their cscape from the cb Martini recovered
his Wits somewhat. AT West Broadway and Park Place 10 = nxed police post,
AM there Martini ssw Policeman Donohue Of the Greenwich street station. In.
seM him VIVA. he'd happened. Donohuo looked int II. eb .nd 90 the two
messengers lying o the Moor with bloody heads w~ds. wao a. IN better
Stage han Smith. confirmed what the driver .saM. and he cab. with Donohus
kSosrd. VA driven rapidly to tho police station.
Isl Nhau Il reached the station II wal found that Smith had been seriously
hMA and IN ambulance wM summoned from Hudson Street Hospital lie was
G&sn there wordeis wounds we're dressed in thu station.
teok As,hA her In hi cb. The pdce subjected them to searching questioning
In - attempt g, a description Of the three Mghwaymcn. nj neither coutd
gvs much asAstanoe lin this matter.
me assault had come so suddenly and the light In tho cab al so uncertain
that worden could not tell what either robhcr wore Martini said nat he as
the man might mistake a aook for dsobcdtencc OF the revolver enforced order and
pat . buka through him,
AZ the East Rive National Ban nil answeres to inquiries, about he robbery
wWe refused.
Soon after the crns VA committed q reporter for The Evening World went
ovss ts route aiken Wy he tanoab afcr the thr- thEhwsym~n hd boarded IT,
but ony two men besides the ucketscner at Park Place had noticed
anything unusual the events of the day. No N seemed TO have notsd the
passage Of the taxicab an 10 me saw. at least no on- remarked In any way. the
sscppans Of thu tai at the Park Place corn nor the hurried XII Of the mon.
such Grimes are being committed almost daily In THU, city m a arso force ot
Detectives has been cent nut to rail thu fuguves