The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-09-20
MEYER WAS Ill, NOT DRUNK.
Yet the Elevated Guards Threw
Him Bodily Downstairs.
Stiil In u Serious Condition from
Hts Injuries.

Edward y. Meyer, the victim OF the
alleged brutal assault by two Elevated
Railway employees at Ninety ninth
street and Third avenue station last
evening. is better to-day. He has re-
gained consciousness and is now lying
at his home. al74 Third avenue, in a
bruised and battered condition.
1t was feared last night that his skull
had been fractured, but DR.. David
Franklin who has attended him, says
that this is not so, although Mr. Meyer
has suffered from severe conclusion
OF the brain.
This. together with his bruises and
Commissions, and the fact that he has
been i'll for a long time past. renders
his condition. st!ll critical. and he is
not yet out of danger.
Mr.. Meyer is the brother of Peter F.
Meyer, Richard Croker,s partner In the
real-estate business. Mrs, Meyer said
nothing from her husbands brother. and
did not suppose he had heard of the
case untii cans morning. ior she had
band that she had not been able to
send word TO his family. Besides. she
was all alone, as they have no children.
There are two other brothers living In
When they first brought my husband
/ in last night" she said. II thought he
u.
him in cab, and all / know about the
case Is what they told me.
They did not give me their names.
and was SO exc, eXSitea !hh hey ,ofSS 10
pear as witnesses against the brutal
tainmen who threw my husband down
the stairs.
had seen two men, one guard on the
train and the other a gateman at the
station, drag my husband out of the
Il Ia ,aFNH hnt,
take him to the gateway and throw him
down the stairs.
hs fell ell to the bottom a and lay ssG
seemed to have tainted away in the
cars, and was not drunk, but sick.
They needn't have told me that. be.
cause know that my husband ts not
..e last two months with a stomach
trouble. and has not been able to take
enough food to keep, up. his strength. .
terribly bruised on the head and face.
and was unconscious. After DIR. Frank
lin came he recovered consciousness
few moments, but could not tell any
When he came to himself this morn
! ing he told me that he left his work at
where he is employed in the Dock De-
partment. about 6 O'Clock last night He
was feeling very III, and before he took
for Thrd sSenue he s,opped to
drink milk punch, thinking ii might
siye him strength to get home
up all the way to Eighty ninth street,
when he sat down in n vacant seat. He
immediately became very sick at his
that until he found himself at home.
One OF the gentlemen who brought
him home says that at Ninety-ninth
"a q shook
punched him, and tried to make him
get up: As he could give no answer
the guard began to e%rse nm ahd
man from the station. they dragged him
out OF the car in his helpless condition
, and deliberately threw him down the
II do not know the names OF the men
who We're responsible for the outrage,
and have not vet made any attempt to
my husband here did not know, but l
think that the matter Will be fully in
Neetigatcd"
police this morning, and at the One
hundred and Fourth street station.
which IL only n few blocks away, the
sergeant in charge knew nothing about
Mrs. Brown. colored. who lives near
the corner of Ninety-ninth street, said
down from the Elevated station and
lay him on some beer kegs standing on
! on the corner, about $50 p. NJ. yester-
day. He was unconscious and was
bleeding from a cut across the forehead
Some one hailed a cab and the man
was put into it. and it drove away.
There was no policeman around at the
time.
The employees OF the Elevated road
at Nnety-ninth street had evidently
been warned to say nothing about the
matter. for they disclaimed all knowl;
edge OF the occurrence. 1t was learned
that the name OF the gateman who had
charge of the platform after 7 O'Clock
last evening was Flanagan. and that
he lived somewhere in Brooklyn.
The station Is very nigh ibove the
street and the first stairway leads from
the platform after passing through the
ticket 9 ono to pass hish ,.n aSon Ut
flight descends. The first flight is about
fifteen feet high and very steep IT
was here that Mr.. Meyer was nung
down.
Col. Hahn. General Manager OF the
Elevated Railroad, said this morainS
that he had received no report II tho
matt but that he would thoroughly
not know the names of the 'rainnan
or gateman who are alleged 20 have
committed the outrage
The police of the One Hundred ard
Fourth street station will also make an
investigation. oPliceman Sharkey. who
Is said to have been on duty at that post
last evening. made no report of the as
sa The when %n% he went her on dutN Msvsrss
identity was established was BY cards
and letters which he carried in his
pocket. He has been for several years
employed as forman in the Dock De
partment. and has always borne a. high
reputation for sobriety and attention
to his duties. Since his health failed
two months ago, ne has been Obliged
to give up work several times He re-
n