The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-09
TWO WOMEN AND MAN TAKE PART
 IN BIG ROBBERY
Seamstress Is Bound and Gagged in Her Own Home
 in Middle of Day
ROBBERS LEAVE HER
 STUNNED IN PARLOR
Make Good Their Escape Though Police Arrive on
 Scene in Short Time.

Two women and a man walked into the home of Mrs. Sadie Monge1luzzi, 239 Pequonock street, shortly before non today, gagged and bhndfolded her, rebbing the house at their leisure. They got s160 in cash hidden in trunk after the home had literally been torn to pieces, threw the woman violently into a corner of teh room and coolly stood in front of the house while they discussed what direction they would take following the robbery, which IS one of the most daring yet perpetrated in the Hill section.
 Following the alarm which was giv- en by Mrs. Mongel1uzzi the widest ex- citement prevailed in the vicinity of the home. A policeman was in the house within three minutes after the report got upon the street and Detec- tives Cronan and Dooley were not ten minutes behind the report made at headquarters at 12:s6 by Postman Maurice J Farrell, who lives in the apartment upstairs.
 According to the statements made | by Mrs. Monge1luzzi through her daughter she is a dress1naker by trade
 and has saved the $16O stolen today 'by hard labor as "a seamstress. She ! was in the house alone about 11:3O
 when two women. between 28 and 30 years of age, one stout and the oth-
 CT. thin, rang the bell. As she open
 ed the door they said they wanted
 a dress made. They were taken into l the parIor and sat about a center table.
 The victim had seated herself near 1 the bedroom door. A tall and fair ly stout man, wearing an overcoat and derby hat entered Mrs. Mon
 gelluzzi, who speaks Spanish only, was told by her visitors who talked
 in broken French and Italian that l the man was the husband of the stout one. He watched the selection of material for a moment and then care fully stepping behind the victim.
 quickly drew a rubber gag across heF mouth and eyes. This he fasten- ed quickly from behind so that she could make no outcry and held her 1 f1rmIy-in his grasp while the two wo- l men jumped up and began to ram sack the drawers of a bureau and side Il board which stood in the front room of the dwelling. Finding nothing in 1 the front room the women methodtc- ally went to one of the rear rooms and ransacked that. The other one went into another Bedroom, and tore
 bed, went through a bureau and h- finally found trunk. This they broke I open together and found small va i lise inside of which was hidden the 1 purse containing $160 in bills.
 Crying to her companion that they I had found the money the women
 slowly walked into the front room,
 male companion to follow them.
 Hea waited minute or so, then
 pulled the gag and blind from her
 face and with curse and threat to | take her life if she made outcry hurl-
 ed her violently into a, corner where
 she lay stunned and Frightened for
 several minutes. When she recovered herself sufficiently she told her trou- | bles to Postman Farrell The police l were sought and headquarters later | notified by telephone It is believed | that about 20 minutes to half an hour
 elapsed before outcry was made
 A good description of the robbers is lacking though two persons are
 known to have seen them. Miss I HarraH avenue was standing in the grocery store of Gabrielle Scanzillo,
 233 Pequonnock street when she saw l the women emerge. Seeing that they I-were strangers and acting queerly she watched them for a moment. The
 man came hurrfedly out of the house and joined them. They stood fully a
 minute as if debating which direction | they should take and then walked
 quickly towards the North where they
 disappeared from her view. She con-
 firms the belief that they were for
 eigners and while fairly we'll dressed l were not dressed in fashionable at
 tire.
 The Monge1luzzi family have lived
 in this city for about two years, hav- Ming come from the Argentine Repub-
 lie. The husband, Joseph. has been
 out of work for some weeks and the
 money taken was their only savings.