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Five Highwaymen Rob Third Avenue Car Passengers

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 4, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 2.

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Five Highwaymen Rob Third Avenue Car Passengers

A most daring highway robbery was committed by five highwaymen on board a Third avenue car at 10 o’clock on Monday night, while the car was crossing Ninety-fourth street, in this city. Although there were at least fifty passengers on board, including ten or eleven uniformed and armed soldiers of the Eleventh Regiment, the five robbers, with drawn revolvers, mounted the car, intimidated the entire crowd, beat one man named Joseph W. Lafetra, an employe of the Third-avenue car company, almost to death, robbed him of $150, and made their escape easily and safely.—New York Weekly Witness, June 13.