San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-23
HAMMERED X
A Hide Dealers Harmonious Home
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Mr.. Chas. Herff. son of DIR. F. Herff,
seems to be in q bad run of luck late
ly and getting rather q good share of
pounding from Judgment men. Satur-
day he vas pretty we'll used up by
Mr.. Otto Kroeger's fist. =
Yesterday afternoon, in front of
Hotel Maverick, Louis f. Meyer, q
local hide dealer, gave him q sound
drubbing, in the presence of q crowd
of spectators, lone of whom inter-
tered. After the fight both Meyer
and Herf were arrested.
The cause of the second fight, SO
Meyer states, is that q few days
ago. Herff told Mrs. Meyer that her
husband was out riding with some
other woman out toward the
Alamo Heights. Mr.. Meyer says this
was not true, of course, but it had q
tendency to make things warm about
! his home for several days, as his
bride of q few months is naturally
! very excitable. She told him what
MIR. Herff had said and the husbands
| ire could not be Gained until he met
| bis trsducer, which he did yesterday
morning. Mr.. Herff vas driving and
did not have time to stop, but went to
Mrs. Meyers Mexican curiosity store
on Alamo plaza and asked her If she
had told her husband what he had
said. She said yes. He then
wrote Meyer a letter telling
him that he could meet him at Q GER
tain number on Houston street
in the afternoon. They met
in front of the Maverick hotel and
Meyer felled Herff with q blow back
of his ear. This was followed by
Meyer jumping on him and beating
him numerically while they rolled
under the wheels of q hack. Herff
managed to get in q few intellectual
blows on Meyer and Meyer hurt mis-
hand by striking the hack q blow.
The following is some of the evil
deuce given in the last case before the
recorder this morning. A hack driver
was first examined and stated that
Herfi was about to pay him hack fare
when Meyer came up and said
'I've been looking for you, God d-n
yoI!" with which he struck him in
the back of the head, knocking him
under the hack, and then got OF top
of him and commenced to pummel him
with:hts fists. He stated that he then
called o policeman who came up and
parted them and that q number In
the crowd tried to keep the fight
going.
The officer was next to take the
stand and his statement was very
short as he did not see the beginning
OF the fight.
Mr.. Chas. Herff was then called.
He said the first time he saw Meyer
was with q lady on an Avenue G..
car, and that this lady had
always been in the habit of
speaking and smiling at him; also,
| that he atter wards met Mrs. Meyer
aud asked her If the man at
| the store was her husband, to which
! she answered yes. He then told her
that he had seen that gentlemen with
arosher lady going to Alamo Heights.
He said that he afterward saw
Meyers lady friend and she said that
coming back from the Heights with
I him he met his wife in front
of the post office and was much
startled" Herff stated that he had
written q note to Meyer, saying that
he knew that he vas looking for him
and If he would call would find him
(Herff) at his home to settle IT annie
ably This was shown in court by
\ Never. ,
Meyer stated that he had lately re.
turned from Rockport, and that Mr..
Herff appeared to be very intimate
with his wife, and that she COM
planned of this to him. He said
"She told me that he had
met her on several occasions
and told her that I was in the habit
Of going with q certain woman. Once
he met her at the post office and told
her that 1 had just come
in with one of these wo-
men and that L had taken
her to the Maverick hotel" Mr..
Meyer then continued to say that his
wife had been insulted on several oc-
casions by Herf and that he, Meyer,
had decided to bring it to a stop.
The Judge, after hearing the evil
dence, fined Meyer SIS.
In the case against Kroeger, no evil
dence was given, as he pleaded guilty
and was fined SIS.
Mr.. herff was fined S. for using
abusive and insulting language.
Mr.. Herff states that he bad known
Mrs. Meyer when her first husband
was living and had frequently con-
versed with them. His only reason
in telling Mrs. Meyer about the street
| car affair was because the woman had
bowed to him and he wanted tn know
who she was and thought Mrs. M.
would know.