The morning call., 1892-02-09
HYER CAME BACK.
He Eludes Officers and Goes to
the Oakland Jail.
The New Jersey Embszzler Interviews His
Attorney, Chats With Alameda COunty's
Chief Jailor and Disappears.

1t was rumored yesterday afternoon that
John Hyer, the young man who escaped
from Detective William Dalton while on the
way from California to New Jersey to
answer a charge Of embezZlement, had been
in Oakland on Saturday night and visited
the Alameda County Jail.
An investigation showed that the rumor
was true. HyeT arrived in oakland on the
evening train Saturday, and eluding the
officers watching for him, drove in hack
to the County Jail, where he had an inter
view with Chief Jailer Lewis w. Schroeder
and was Rfterward allowed to depart in
stead of being locked up. lie spent some
SIX weeks with his wife in the Alameda
County Jail and got well acquainted with
the jailer aud his family. who boarded Mrs.
Hyer while Hyer was there as a prisoner.
Sheriff HuSsey investigated the matter
and found that HyeT had really been at the
Jail and was allowed to go away again. He
asCertalned that Schroeder had Informed his
assistant, {. F. Murdoch Tie latter, II IS
said came to this city on Sunday and on
his return said that the detecti YES here
asked him about IIyer being in the jail, but
Schroeder told the Sheriff that he tod Muir
dOCh about it.
Sheriff Hussey has suspended both
Schroeder and Murdoch and placed De-
putty Sheriff Aduey in charge OF the jail
pending full Investigation OF the affair.
THE VISIT TO THE JAIL.
When questioned about his peculiar con-
duct Schroeder made the appended state
meut:
Last saturday night, about 100 o'clock,
While l was on watch. / heard hack drive up
to the County JAN. Presently there was ring
of the bell al the front door, which answered.
To my establishment there stood John Hyer.
He asked me 10 telephone bis attorney, carroll
Cook, ana ask him 10 come 10 Oakland. told
him dId not think Il would be the proper hing
for hlm 10 use our Office for any such purpose.
! told u!m That he had better leave the jan at
once as he was jsupudZlug my position. lie
said to me, ''Mr. Schroeder, this old dirty hand
KtIChieI IS all have besides 81 IN money. l
was never more lonesome IN my lie Than
| am now. / have been with my wife for
nave never been parted from her. she was IN
jail with me ~ san Francisco as You know, also
ID his JAN. ! feel very lonely without her
never was more lonesome M my lie. My money
D. gone, my equation Is blasted, and, educated
as 1 am, c0nd not secure position back East.
Ii do not get money ! viii ieJ The police take
NE back 10 face % all. / tuiuk my flleuds VIII
take ply on me and help me. i must and Will
see my vile again"
ANOTHER SICK DETECTIVE.
I asked INN now he managed to get away.
lie replied; dalton Was the sicAeSt man you
ever saw an lie way. He WASN'T able 10 take
a child / really ultled The poor fellow. lie
last night on the road d came TO NE Ike taSh
while was IA btd 10 20 back TO san Frduci>cu.
J iOld my wife that l was going, and took what
money she mad. amounting 20 $50. / lHtn
opened tie window when We auNed al way
station aud jumped Out.'
Tie poor fellow was crying, and was 10 4 pit
liable condition. His hand- eIclief was 80 dirty
Iuat fit sorry for MIN and gave hin MY White
silk one i told him that didn't want him At
tie jan and he must go away Is / could do Moth
Ing for hlm. lie then grasped my hand and SAID,
May God bless you. Nj. Schroeder"
lg4 ham l-Tt .I.A 4fI FIfI 10
10 follow him. She did so, and found That lie
went 10 ScveuIE and Webster streets aud there
entered a b ck and drove away.
HAD HEARD on II.
Last night Detectives Holland ana Wuitake
came TO The jail aud told me they had neard that
Hyer had been there The night before.
Iney showed me telegram from
] to'd them that lie had been 10 tie jail.
buJ bat l had not arrested him cause bad
40 Official advice That he was wanted, and no au-
IU.Ity OF law 20 arrest him. We then went out
together aud found The hackmln who had
brought him 10 The all He told US that he had
driven liver 10 a house on Flith and Union
streets. We all went 10 the house aud searched
o., but liver was not there. Carroll Cook Told
noe tuat Hyer sent him note saying that ne had
sailed Iu lie steamer for Australia yesterday
afternoon. That is luil and fam statement OF
The case. l simply acted Ia Tie matter as l
Thought right.
dId not KNOW that could arrest Hyer and
hold him without any warrant whatever. II 1
have erred / cannot help IT, / am 10 blame
alone.
THE ASSISTANT JAILER's STORY.
In an Interview with Assistant Jailer
Murdoch last evening he said: 81 know
thing about this affair more than l have
been told. Sheriff HusSey told me | was
suspended pending investigation. bat / do
not know why. / was AZ my home on Six
teenth street when liver came to the Jail
Saturday night. Schroeder Is the chief
jtller aud lives there; | do not. l am told
that Hyer wanted to.;borTOw some money
from Schroeder, but that Schroeder told
him he had none to loan. Hyer then drove
away. Hyer had money when he was at the
Jail. II was said he had about $1,000. 1t
was understood he gave the money 10 Car
roll Cook when he left When Hyer came
20 the jail, SO Schroeder says, lie was dressed
IN old clothes, much the worse for dirt. II
was probably the same suit lie escaped in"
It Is said that Hyer was we'll supplied
with money when in the Alameda County
Jail, and that lie left $1,000 or $1,000 IN the
hands Of Carroll Cook, his attorney, and
that an agent was sent by the attorney 10
meet him at Sacramento, but missed him.
Hyer Is said to have sailed on Sunday fer
Australia; but this IS not generally be-
leved, though it Is possible il may be true
as II is understood TO have come from At
torney Cook.
THE DETECTIVE.
1t is known that Hyer came westward on
NE Overland Train as lar as Sacramento.
From there he sped to Oakland, arriving
Saturday night. lie dropped off at the Six
teenth-street Station, evading Detectives
Whitaker, BOhen and Dan C0ffeY, Of this
city, and Detectives Holland and DOwney Of
Oakland. After visiting his attorney be
went to the County Jail, as stated.
Chief Crowley had very little to say when
questioned about Hyer yesterday afternoon
lie said that detectives had been looking
for HyeT for three DAYS but without suc-
cess. The New Jersey embeZzler had not
been seen in San Francisco. The Chief
declined to say whether Hyer had left for
Australia, stating the Oakland officers were
alone responsible for his escape.