Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-06-13 | Page 3 | Beaten to Death in Streets of New York

BEATEN TO DEATH IN STREETS OF NEW YORK Bold Highwaymen Finish Murderous Mur-derous Work in View of Ter-ror-Strickcn Persons. NEW YORK, Juno 12. While a dozen terrorized men and women looked on from tho windows of surrounding houses in West Twenty-eoventu street, two highwaymen today beat to death and robbed a man claiming to be Albert Crosb3. Crosby was an actor and had been playing in "The Road to Yesterday." Yester-day." He was still breathing when witnesses wit-nesses of the tragedy ran up to him after the robbers had fled, but. ho died in a hospital while surgeons were preparing pre-paring to trephine hig shattered skull. According to the stories of eye-witnesses tho victim of tho assault was sauntering Blowly down the street when two men who had been walking behind him sprang upon him. One of tho men seized him by the throat and while ho held him the other struck Crosby a crushing blow on the forehead with a black-jack. Then, as tho man continued con-tinued to struggle in an effort to free himself, the man with tho black-iack struck a second bloAV. Crosby fell to the sidewalk unconscious. As ho lay there the robbers rifled his pockets and fled before an alarm could be given. An ambulance was called, but Crosbj- only livctl a few minutes after reaching the hospital. The dead man was about 35 years old.