This Day in History: 1958-08-08
The search for two bandits who held up the Esso Station on Route 17 in Mahwah was intensified as news broke of the death of a River Edge service station attendant in a similar robbery. There were also reports of robberies in Fair Lawn and in Orangeburg and Pearl River, NY, apparently by the same pair. In the Mahwah robbery, the proprietor Warren Leroy of Ridgewood and a customer were ordered to lie down in a storeroom. The customer, Robert Flauboulet of Valley Road, did not understand the order and failed to respond. He was hit on the head with an empty soda case. The robbers escaped with $65. Flauboulet was treated for a head wound at the Good Samaritan Hospital. (Bristow)