The evening world., 1914-01-07
THIRD DEGREE lab
PUNCTURESSTORY
OF POISON NEEDLE.
Clerk Carrying 800 Payroll
Cries He Has Been Attacked
Money Gone.
FOUND LATER INTACT.
Police Say He Confessed That
He Slipped Package Of Cash
to His Brother.
FOUND LATER INTACT.

Thsrs = such . thing - bong - ~
10 data This fact was established when |
Charles r. Monrsria, twenty years I'D.
Of No iss Crescent place. Yonksrs. sad
his sishteen.ysar-oiA Srothsr. MoraA
were arraixnsd in Centre Street Police |
Court to-day charged With grand
larceny ana hssA In $500 hail saSh.
Charles had been reading about
young women being jabbsd In the arms
by poisoned needles and losing their
senses and being carried away ~ VII
ia.ns. Quick TO ssiss an idea. Chsrtss
seised the poisoned needle proposition
preparatory to ssisins $500 belonging
to the KEN wood Contracting Company
No. % Pearl street. by which concern
he was employed a. . stenographer.
His time came yesterday when. with
q. 800 belonging to the firm in his pos
session he started for Haokensank. N.
j.. IN the company Of Charles n Dngel.
the paymaster. Their mission was to
pay of iaborers employed in filing
sect1on Of the Hackensaok Meadow.
EMBROIDERED TALE AND 90
ENGINEERED UNDoiNo.
Charles admitted IN court to-day that
he had plotted TO steal the e,Soo He
said he was tired of wor1king. II de-
We oped that he was 20 we'll thought OF
by his employers that II he had stmply
said the money was stolen from him
his statement would have been accepted.
But he had to embroider his plan. %
to speak. with the needle theory. and
that aroused suspicion from the start
and led TO the recovery Of the money.
which he had surreptitiously trans-
ferrsd TO the custody Of his brother
The frst mistake Mongolia made va
TO suggest 10 Engel that they leave b.
the Pearl street entrance instead Of tn
one they usually used on Stone street
Enssl insisted they 20 their usual route
Twice he noticed hiA companion look
Ing over his shoulder. but thought noeh
Ing Of Il at the time
While they were walking arm-in-arv
down the ramp Of the Hudson Terminus
concorrss Mongolia cried out: ''I'v
bssn stabbed with . poisoned nssdls'
Just like that He crumpisd up appai
entity in . faint. Engsl y wise youti
and the FIRST thing he did was TO fe>
in Mongreiia's pocket for the e1,so
Nothing doing. Money zone. aithous
there was no one within nifty feet {
b, them.
I The Greenwich street station furnishs
~ policemen. and the Hudson Street Hos
pitai doctors. Beautiful women crowds
about the motionless form Of the ham
u some youth 20 ruthlessly struck dow
by 0 mysterious aSsailant Police Hsat
quarters was notified and. Of cours
there was q stir. After . lapse OF viii
MongreIla deemed . suitable time
% allowed himself to be revived. The DO
y tor unkindly told the police there VI
n no sign Of needle prick. and that u
J. young man was sound - dollar"
o MonGrellA CONSENTED TO accompar
Do Detective Sergeant Clare to the statio
l. whore Acting Captain Tunney and Lieu
q Gildea cross OF AHMED him for an hou
Finally he decided the police might
D right after all. and the detectives q
It he made q complete confession.
n MONEY WITH SEALS UNeRokg
!, FOUND IN oARRET.
> He explained. the detectives ases'
4, that he had arranged with his broth
Morris that the latter was to walt
|, Pearl street until the two came out 4
\ low them unobtruslvely and pick UP I
"A envelope which Charles Mongolia Won
:, drop.
)" Charles MonSreila was locked up on
charge Of grand lsrosny. while Dsts
'h tiyss set out for Yonksrs N search
Morris