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Show INSPECTOR HUGHES, WHO IS TRACK-H TRACK-H ING MURDEROUS THIEVES WHO USE TAXICABS, AND SCENE OF KILLING HL ! ! NEW YORK, July 28 This city is B ' greatly disturbed over a new form or H robbery which has appeared here. H Tho thiees are even more up to H j date than tho celebrated "Raffles," H it because they operato by means o? a H taxfeab. Tho daring men drive up tp H ( a store, .leaving a man In the auto H, ready to start it ahead at full speed,. H They ontcr the store, seize the cash H. drawor's contents of. platol's point H I and dart quickly into the taxi, which H soon places them beyond pursuit. In H , the case of the bold robbery of Ja- H coby's jowelry store, Sixth avenue H I and Thirteenth street, they broke the M front window, seized $5000 worth of H' Jewels, shot dead Jr.coby's nophow, H' Adolph Stern, and ebiaped in a taxi H Next they entered Rosonbaiim's shoe H Btoro in. Bleecker street, but were ro- H pulsed In attempt to rob the cash H ', drawer. Roscnbaum, shot at eoveral Hj times, narrowly escaped with his life, K Anothor cose that hits attracted tho M i attention of the local authorities, though it Is beyond their Jurisdiction, in tho attempt to rob tho poatoffico at River Edge, N. J., fivo miles from Hackonsack. This caso is associated with the two local ona because In each the thugs used an automobile o! tho taxlcab model. Three men in an auto blew open the Bafc at Riror Edge in tho course of a violent thunderstorm, thun-derstorm, but fatted to get any Vendor. Ven-dor. Then the presence of three young men in an automobile In Hack-ensack Hack-ensack tho night hoforo was recalled. The three mademany inquiries about the policeprotection in tho neighborhood neighbor-hood and drove away from Hacken-sack Hacken-sack in tho direction of River Edge after jirlnking a great deal of liquor UnsDoctprHughoE, the youngest in-' ' spector on the New York police force ia making desperate efforts to break up the gang of holdup men. Ho has placed on tho task every available man on his staff. |