The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-24
THE IRREPRESSIBLE MEYER.

IHE KkEFhESSlBLE ME Eli.
Stealthy Strategems in the Staple.
short time ago letter was published in
one Of our contemporaries, signed by Henry
Meyer, whose action had been exposed with
reference to his connection with the firm of
Meyer, Pressprich g. Co., of this city. At that
time Meyer was locked up in the Parish
said about him. It will be remembered that
this Meyer had been sued by his former en-.
.rloyaas for moneys he defrauded them out Of,
and was imprisoned.
When the case came up he testified on the
witness stand that he had taken $136, 900 from
here, and further, that he had RENTED
$45, 900 to his partner. His admissions ere
enough to condemn him, and it is singular
that our cotton community did not have him
before the Grand Jury.
1t appears his game was shipping cotton of
inferior grades abroad, and drawing bills of
exchange for high ones. This is over and be-
yond the fact Of his absconding with his ILL.,
gotten gains.
Report puts down Meyer as an unprinci-
pied adventurer, who has the bold front to
defy, so to say, a whole community by return
ing to place where he had committed one of
the most daring swindles ever perpetrated in
this city, and which ought to have been
brought to the notice of the Grand Jury, SO
as to bring about due punishment.
Before obtaining his last bond Meyer tried
to pass straw bond, which, in itself, is q
most suspicious circumstance. He gave his
time drafts to third party, and with this very
draft of Meyers the third party purchased
from Meyers father-in-law q piece Of land, so
as to enable him to 60 security for Meyer.
How far the titles were good, if there were
any at all, was not even investigated, as the
straw was too apparent.
Meyer, from his own testimony, has been
floating about for year, going from New
York to San Francisco, thence to Panama,
thence back to New York, to st. Louis, where
detectives troubled him, he says, thence to
New York again, and finally he drifted to
Mexico, where he found a partner to go into
the silver mining business, and where he is
doing we'll, he says.
Meyer is of such happy nature that his
illicit gains do not seem to trouble him much;
as he says, in his famous letter to his partner,
he will keep his share at all hazards.
Having managed to get release in New
York from some of his foreign creditors,
Meyer INDUCES in the belief that he is now
passing for an honest man; his countenance
is childlike and bland; by having renamed
himself into "Enriquez," he now seeks to
get again into the good graces of our business
men. The following letter will throw some
light on Meyers character:
New YORK, June Is, 1874.
Much Esteemed Mr.. Presspr.ch:
I have received several of your letters, and
kilograms likewise. It is very distressing
that you should have to telegraph again and
again for money, and it proves to me that
only more how unsatisfactory our business is.
I am compelled to communicate to you some
things, which may surprise you somewhat,
but you will hardly consider them strange.
At the end of March, or rather in April, I
was once in New Orleans, entirely without
money, and knew very we'll that I could
not expect money from you, since you tele-
grsphed, and in tact, imperatively, for cable
transfers.
Although things were not all couleur de rose
with you, and although, to judge by your
letter since received, you were very much de-
pressed, you can hardly imagine how l felt
at that time, for I saw no other way but to
give up business, and, in fact to suspend.
As see by your letter, I judged our situation
rightly and perhaps more favorably than you
did yourself, than it actually was. For the
balance of the season I could hope nothing,
and justly SO, as was proved afterwards
What was to be our lot but to give up bust
ness and suspend payment? But what after
that The future looked to me dark and
dreary, not for myself alone, but for you, too;
and as for the reclamations which, like every
body else, we had to expect, why, we could
not have been able to pay them, and for that
reason we would have been unable to con-
tinue our business.
looked around in all directions, but failed
to see my way out l, therefore. commenced
to experiment with large lots 1920 bales) at
cheap prices. Now have reason to believe
indeed, know positively-that on all these
cheap liverpool middling, nothing below
low middling). shipments per Clydesdale, Ca
rondelet, Usko-in fact, on all those cheap
shipments, as to which you already had your
doubts, we would have very heavy reclama-
tons, and that people would clamor about US
in spite of our handsome redrawn samples.
Our competitors, it is true, have plenty of re-
too, and many pretend that they
shall not pay them, but our case is little diff
ferent, and, therefore, we have to act dif-
ferently.
I have made some money on the above
shipments (else it would have been impos-
sible for me to send you cable transfers, how
ever imperative), and have made up my
mind to keep my share of it. at all hazards.
If the European importers think they can