New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
Truck Hauling Unusually
Valuable Cargo to City
Halted and Seized on
Quiet New Jersey Road
Driver and Helper
Beaten Will, Guns
Told TO Pray as Thugs
Talk of Adding More
Murders to Days Work
.nstial p.spoteh to The Tri1mnc


x,s shot to death and two others
,ssten into insensibility early to-
isv when six masked bandits, armed
18th rerolvers, held up and stole the
..mi-weekly New York bound silk
.ruck of the Sussex Print Works, which
,,ft Newton at $3.50 a. m. on its regu-
ar run. The truck contained silks
,yslued at $4,000.
Charles Costa, I'm engineer, Of An
5oyer, refused to halt his motorcycle
,s he passed the robber gang engaged
N binding the chauffeur and his as
,stants. He was shot three times.
T,vo bandits fred at him. His body
ras thrown into swamp and not
found until FIVE hours later. The mur-
der and robbery took place near bog
,slled Cats Swamp.
Charles Names, driver Of the silk
.ruck, and Claude Resi-, his helper,
10Th residents of Newton, were beaten,
hound hand and foot and carried into
woods fifty feet from the roadside,
ehsre a guard of four masked men
sept guard over them until $50 yes
ts-day afternoon.
Flee at High Speed
After Maines and Resn had been
o,dered down from the drivers seat
Of the truck, two of the six men took
their places and drove away at high
speed in the direction of New York.
Both Names and Resh were beaten
With gun butts after the truck had
been driven away. They attempted to
ight off the four remaining robbers.
The two captives were abandoned
still bound. soon after 2:30. Resh
wriggled his feet for an hour before
the cords binding them loosened. With
aands still fastened behind his back he
gnawed the bonds of Maines with his
.eeth until the bindings parted. Names
released Resh and they walked to
Stanhope, where the two gave the
iarm. Within an hour sixty motor
cars loaded with armed men began
searching for the murderers Up to 8
ate hour tonight 10 trace of then,
Stanhope and Under Sheriff Treloar
re directing the activities of the man
hunters.
Face Down in Swamp
The body of Costa was found lying
face down in the swamp beside the
road, His motorcycle lay near him
where the bandits threw it after they
lad hurled Costa down an embank-
ment, There were three bullet wounds
in Costa's body. One shot was fired
at Names as he lay bound on the
ground and colloquy ensued between
the robbers as to whether it were bet.
ter TO kill him and Resh or to bind
then~and leave them in the woods
This controversy was carried on for
twenty minutes, Maines told Sheriff
Little, before decision was reached
TO spare their lives. Maines is suffer
ing from the beating he received. Resh
broke several teeth in gnawing through
ropes that bound his companion.
I'VE were going slowly about seven
miles out of Newton when we saw six
men, three on each side of the road
said Names in statement made to an
Official of the Sussex Print Mills to-
night. When we were near enough
saw that all wore masks and that each
had two revolvers. BY that time we
were too close to offer much resist
ance, One of the men who was near
est our car on the south side of the
road seemed to be the leader of the
gang,
Told to Pray
You're up against it; climb down.
be ordered.
! had just started to throw the
clutch into high, being suspicious Of
'ae gang, when / caught sight of their
guns and heard the order to get down.
Kesh and I got down and two men
aoout our size, dressed a good deal as
we were, took cur places. They stepped
On the gas and quickly were out of
asght round a turn. The remaining
,our men seized us, two attending to
kesh and two dragging me along. They
,ook US into the brush about fifty fact
from the road. had a 44-caliber gun
as my head during the walk and Resh
vas in the same fix. One Of the men
Ioid me that I had better say my
prayers if l wanted to, because my
silae was nearly up. I thought if they
we're going to kill me might as we'll
make fight, SO I began struggling.
sesh took the cue and also made q
fight.
That was when they began beating
Vs. | vas dubbed with the butt of a
,o.lg revolver until I fell. / don't be-
ueVe l was ever really unconscious. It
seems can remember everything thai
happened.
Just as the truck started to leave
saw Charlie Costa coming on his mo-
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