A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the April 30, 1920 edition of the newspaper.
Chauffer Is Attacked By Passengers; Men Took Money & Machine
Bound tightly with picture wire and lying in a a field, Charles Chafey, of Bert Avenue, a taxi cab driver, was found last night by William Gray and L.H. Grover, farmers on the Bridgetown Pike, shout halfway between Newtown and Langhorne, after having been robbed of his automobile and money.
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About ten o’clock last night, Mrs. Grover heard cries coming from a field about three hundred yards front their home, which is situated some distance back from the main road. She called the attention of her husband to the sounds, which could be heard faintly, and Mr. Gover, accompanied by Mr. Gray, who operates the adjoining farm, started upon an investigation.
They found a man lying in the field, a short distance from the road and with his arms and legs fastened security with the thin wire.
After releasing him, they assisted the man to the Grover house, where he told his story. He said he had been engaged by three men who approached his car while at his stand in the center of Trenton about 8 o’clock and asked to be taken to Langhorne. Upon reaching a point about a mile past Newtown, he felt cold steel against his scalp and looked around into the barrels of two revolvers in the hands of his passengers.
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They ordered him to stop the car and then compelled him to get out and cross over into the field, where they bound him and forced a small towel into his mouth as a gag. First relieving him of a small sum on money which he carried, the three men returned to the car and drive away, continuing in the direction of Langhorne. After vigorous efforts, the man managed to get the towel out of his mount but it was some time before he succeeded in attracting attention by his cries.
When found by Mr. Gover and Mr. Gray, the man was suffering considerably from nervousness, but he was not injured.
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Word of the affair was send to the headquarters of the Pennsylvania State Police at Langhorne and members of the department reached the scene shorty afterwards.
The man was able to furnish them with a fairly complete description of his three assailants and also of the stolen automobile, which was a Hudson touring car, and the police throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey have been notified to be on the lookout for them.
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