The sun., 1888-12-07
HIS BRIDAL TRIP SPOILED.
TIE COUSIN HE HAD DECEIVFD Rhs
ERNEST MEIER ARRESTED
He borrowed Money from Her 20 Get Mar
ricd On and ne Had Repaid Her Former
Loans In worthless Notes and Honda,

He borrowed Money from Her 20 Get Mar.
ried On and ne Had Repaid Her Former
Loans In Worthless Notes and Honda.
Ernest Meyer. an artist, 81 years old, who
lives at 800 Ninth avenue was arrested in Ho-
boken yesterday rs he was about to take a
train for Chicago. with his bride OF week He
was accused Of obtaining money under false
pretences from his cousin, Gretchen Trager, OF
719 Ninth avenue.
Meyer csme to this country three years
ago from Germany. Ho had made love TO
his cousin there, md when he left no
promised 10 eend for her as soon us he
could find place for her here. year
later she came and obtained employment
on Ninth avenue. A little while after sho ar
rived here relative in Germany died and left
her $1,000. One day when Meyer called on
Miss Trager he told her he was going to start in
business for himself in Connecticut and needed
s400. She agreed 10 lend it TO him provided
he would return II in three months When the
three months was UP he gave her roll OF bills,
which he told her was worth s4oO. She put
them away vii the rest OF her money. After
ranging from, $50 Up, He always repaid The
loans promptly with bills similar TO those he
hqd used at first.
While he was in Connecticut Meyer mot a
yretty young woman named Annie Mitchell.
ihey became engaged nnd he deserted her
She followed him 10 this city and then agreed
to comnromise matters for slQo He borrowed
wsn'eh hs # from 9r his s6s SynSd ss her Tha he
his iaihlessness and then. he told her
he wanted to marry her. She thought 1t
would be better to wait awhile. Ho said nothing
more to Miss Trager on the subject Of marriage
until about two weeks ago. when be called on
her and told her that he was going to marry n
young woman named Annie Merz. whose father
was well to do. He needed SIPS to pay the eN-
nen1ses 1ss 81 me Wodding he said, and wanted her
Miss TraRer hnd by this time made up hcr
MIND not TO marry her cousin In any event.
thnt he had been married to another woman
when he first came TO, this country. She WAS
indignant. and consulted her employer, who
her in return, for, ;ho money. she had
loaned him, Miss Trager got it for, him
and he found that It was q lot Of worthless
TO 800 each, He advised tho girl to have Mey.
or arrested, but she didn't know where to find
him. On Monday she received a letter from
Meyer. in which ho said he had been married.
and an, was going with his bride to Chicago BY the
on Thursday.
Miss TraEer notified the Hoboken police. and
when Meyer left the ferryhoat to take his train
and Harvey arrested b i'm. He did not seem at
all nut out, and willingly accompanied the de-
tectiyes to Police Headquarters. His cousin.
ed him and his bride foliowed % Whegn heg Meyer Meyer
his pockets. His bride had SIPS in Confederate
bill in her pocketbook.
done anything wrong He purchased the Con-
fedcratc bills and the bogus bonds for ten
cents on broadway one day. he said. Tho
61de the deseysd cousin back to
locked up in the Forty-seventh street police
station. he Will have an examination to-day.