The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-25
man and WOMAN
BEAT JITNEUR,
STEAL HIS CAR
Driver Tells Police He Was
ackjacked and Thrown
Into Road.

Attacked by 6, girl auto bandit and
her escort, young man of strong
physique, when the machine in which
he was carrying the pair reached
Peck's Mill, Stratford, the scene of the
Jennie Caveler murder, John Mona.
72 johnson street, was blackjacked
by the youth and in the struggle that
followed for possession Of the car was
set upon and bitten in one cheek by
the girl.
The combined efforts of the young
bandit and the girl resulted in Mona
being beaten into insensibility, the
fight taking place in the front of the
car. Unconscious, he was then hurleA
from the machine into the roadway
and his two assailants fed with the
machine, successfully eluding capture.
Mona was passing State street and
Colorado avenue with his machine at
about 10 o'clock last night when the
couple noting the sign For Hire
hailed him. The youth stated he
wanted to go to Shelton and after fix
ing the price the couple climbed into
the rear seat of the machine.
While passing through Stratford
near Peck's Mill the youth and the
| girl, both of whom were very we'll
dressed asked that Mona halt the ma
chine. = AS the car came to standstill
the bandit. unseen by Mona, hit him
on the head with a blackjack.
Mona. half stunned, rose, and turn
| ing about, started to grapple with his
assaflant, who was climbing from the
rear to the front seat of the auto. The
bandit and Mona pumrneled each
Eother severely, Mona receiving black
eye in the scri1nnnage. Though dazed
4 III 7,,.~x y
ing a good account of himself and
probably would have emerged victor
ious when the girl took a hand in the
proceedings
With her finger nails she tore q
patch of skin off Mona's nose, stuck
one of her fingers in the eye uniniured
up to this period, and then firmly i'm.
! beddeds her teeth in his left cheek
while her pal banged Mona on the LEFT
jaw with his fit. The drivers sense.
fed.
# Bleeding and insensible the jitneu]
was hurled into the roadway, striking
in a spot which left him in irnrnineh
/ danger of being killed by passing
autos, and the strange combination O
auto bandits departed with the ma,
chine. Mona in a few minutes re
covered his consciousness and yelle,
for help.
,Neighbors in nearby houses lef
their beds to answer his summons. H
was hurriedly patched up and board
ed car In pursuit of the bandits an
his auto. Reaching Shelton Nom
went to the police and informed Their
OF the attack upon him and the thet
of his car. The Bridgeport police an
d authorities in all surrounding elite
and towns were asked to be on tn
/ lookout for the machine and its oe
: cupants.
Search was Immediately made bu
i the police Of this city, Derby, Water
, bury and other places failed to fin
/ any trace of the couple. This morn
{ ing Mona, his eye blackened and clos
i ed. and the imprint of the girls up
) per and lower teeth plainly showing i
his cheek, detailed the assault t
| Capt. Cronan.
} He showed lump on his head a
3 big as an egg where he was firs
: struck with the blackjack. The pc
lice state he was hit once by tn
; weapon, the assailant probably losin
{ his grip on the blackjack in til
struggle which followed the strikin
8 of the first blow
Il Mona was unable to furnish a goo
Prescription of the couple He state
they were a young man and CIR
both about 81 years, well dressed. r
= could furnish no Information as |
their complexion or height
The victim on leaving police heai
quarters opined that following his 81
perience he was in perfect accord wit
the opinion of Kipling that the IF,
s male Of the species was more dead
than male"