Allen Jackson robs Michael Costabile
- Title of event
- Allen Jackson robs Michael Costabile
- Type of event
- Pickpocketing
- Address of event
- Allen Jackson robs Michael Costabile Happened Primarily at W 135th St & Lenox Ave
- Report on event
- Allen Jackson robs Michael Costabile Main report referencing event Michael Costabile against Allen Jackson
- Start date / time
- May 30, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Morning)
- Description
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The deponent [Costabile], about to alight from a stopped train at the West 135th Street subway station, was “crowded against” by the defendant [Jackson] and two unidentified men, “one of whom placed his hand in the left front pocket of [deponent’s] trousers, and took therefrom [$10 cash].” The deponent then “made an outcry,” to which the defendant “jump[ed] from the station platform to the tracks, while the two men disappeared in the crowd with had gathered.”