Year: 1879

AN OLD LADY ROBBED AND KNOCKED DOWN IN


HER AssAILANT ESCAPES.


Mrs. Frances Healey 10 . little old lady living q
No. l6 Livingston place. opposite stuyvesant Park
She keeps abosrding house. and her son and daugh
ter-in,law members of the family. About two
years ago the latter. while leaving st. Thomas
Church Sunday evening knocked
down by . man in the midst Of crowd
and retained possession OF her pocketbook only
after . violent struggle. The species Of law
lessness OF which that example has since be-
come more and more common. On Thursday Of last
week Mrs. Healey herself was the victim Of an ont.
rageous assault and robbery. from tho effects of
which she is still suffering. The particulars were
made known to the police Of the Eighteenth precinct
soon after they occurred The garrotng so weIl
executed that when the victim recovered sufficiently
TO look around her there was no one in sight


PURSUED AND ASSAULTED.


Mrs. Healey s about sixty years of age. OF slight
Judging from her face one would suppose her to be
possessed Of considerable intrepidity. On Thursday
keting. She went frst to the shop of . butcher in
First and thence to grocers 1t the of
Sixteenth street. and next to bakery. between Six
teenth and Seventeenth streets. While she in
the latter place . degraded looking fellow entered
and watched her while she handled her purse. He
appeared to be about thrty-hve years of age. She
can give further description of him. She left the
bakery and walking home by way of Seventeenth
street, had turned the corner of Livingston place.
when suddenly. Just she had almost reached her
own door. mans arms were hung about her, pinion-
ing her own. which held three or four packages,
close to her Sides The man was behind her. and his
movement had been quick and skilful that there
chance for assistance escape. With one
hand he seized her purse. and with the other, grip
ping her arm near the shoulder hurled her from him
and ran away.


NO HELP AT HAND


Mrs. Healey stumbled headlong way across the
street. and then fell. The pavement is Of cobble
stones and her side was hurt severely. Tho pain,
lay almost unconscious where she had fallen.
Her clothing torn and saturated with mud.
When she raised herself PAINFULLY and dragged her
way toward her house. about ten PAGES distant, she
shouted for help. but no one came. Some time yes
terday. however, two policemen made their appear
ance. having been informed of all that
had Witnessed it while standing on the
corner. He could not however, describe the robber.
Neither could Mrs. Healey, who had not seen his
face. The black and blue marks Of his fingers still
the same man whom Mrs. Healey saw in the
bakery affords clew which may lead to his appre-
hension.


Fortunately the purse which was carried of by
the rufhan contained only little more than So and
some unimportant papers.


would HAVE CHASED HIM."


''If had been any less supple and spry than
am. said Mrs Healey. last evening. it would have
killed me to be thrown as l was. And only
to think, too. that it was right in front
of my own door l am not very tmid.
and IL I had not been stunned by the fall,
should certainly have given him chase. think that
it part OF his plan to disable me from giving
alarm and following him. struck the pavement on
my side very heavily.


'.Do you tnink the man whom you saw in the
bakery was your assailant?


II have an impression that he must have followed
me. He looked like very bad man. and the police
said that it must have been done by some one who
understands his business