The evening world., 1893-09-20
MEYER Was s. VI, NOT DRUNK
Yet the Elevated Guards Threw
Him Bodily Downstairs.
Still in . Serious Condition from
His 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, 2l74 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 concussion
Of the brain.
This, together with his bruises and
been i'll for a long time past, renders
his condition still critical. and he Is
not yet out of danger
Meyer. Richard Croker's partner in the
eai-estate business. Mrs. Meyer said
this mornig that she had as yet heard
nothing from her husbands brother, and
case until this morning. tor she had
been SO occupied with nursing her hus-
band that she had not been able to
was all alone, as they have no children.
/ There are two other brothers living In
this city.
when they first brought my husband
in last night" she said, 81 thought he
was dead, Four gentlemen came with
him In cab, and all know about the
case is what they told me.
and / was 30 excited that forgot to
ask Them but they said they would ap..
pear as witnesses against the brutal
tainmen who threw my husband down
the stairs.
What they told me was that they
had seen two men. one a guard on the
train and. the other a gateman at the
Of tnn drDo nv hi
car. shake and pound him. and then
take him to the gateway and throw him
down the stairs.
He fell to the bottom and lay uncon.
seemed to have tainted away In the
cars. and was not drunk. but sick.
cause know that my husband il not
drinking man. He has been sick for
;Ac last two. months with a stomach
trouble. and has not been able TO take
when they brought him in no was
terribly bruised on the head and face,
and was unconscious. After Or. Frank
few moments, but could not tell any
thing about the assault
when he came to himself this morn
Forty 70 fourth street ' and Twelfth avenue.
where he IL employed In the Dock De-
partment. about 8 o'clock last night. He
was feeling very Ill. and before he took
street for Third avenue, he stopped to
drink a milk punch. thinking 1t might
give him strength to get home .,
Forty-second street. and had to stand
up all the way to Eighty-ninth street,
when he sat down in vacant seat. He
Immediately became very sick at his
that until he found himself at home.
One OF the gentlemen who brought
street the guard on the train shook and
punched him, and tried to make him
get up. AS he could give no answer
hs guard BEGAN r. 70 Of s na
man from the station. they dragged him
out of the car in his helpless condition
and deliberately threw him down the
Il do not know the names of the men
who were responsible for the outrage,
and have not yet made any attempt to
my s f nd. here did d'1 not Know. but
think that the matter will be fully in
ire case had no. been reported to the the
Hundred and Fourth street station,
which is only a few blocks away, the
sergeant In charge knew nothing about
Mrs. Brown, colored. who lives near
the corner of Ninety ninth street. said
that she saw some people bring a man
QOWn from the CltNdteu stdtlOH dilu
lay him on some beer kegs standing on
on the corner. about 1880 p. NJ. yester-
day. He was unconscious and was
bleeding from a cut across the forehead.
Some one hailed cab and the man
was put into 1t, and 1t drove away.
There was no policeman around at the
time.
at Ninety-ninth street had evidently
been warned to say nothing about the
matter. for they dlsclaimed all ,knowl;
edge OF the occurrence. 1t was learned
that the name of the gateman who had
last evening was Flanagan, and that
he lived somewhere In Brooklyn.
The station Is very high above the
the platform after passing through, the
ticket ONCE to a passageway about
twenty-five feet long. which extends to
the, side OF the street, where another
flight descends. The first flight is about
fifteen feet high and very steep, 1t
was here that Mr.. Meyer was flung
down.
Elevated a' Raire sn1fa said a this mornns
that he had received no report Of the
matA- but that he would thorou ghly
investigate It some time to-day, He did
or gateman who are alleged to have
committed the outrage.
The police OF the One Hundred ard
Fourth street station will also make an
Is said to have been on duty at that post
last evening. made no report OF the as
sanlt when he went of duty. ,,
and letters which he. carried in his
pocket. He has been for several years
employed as q forman In the Dock De-
and rSr has sSSys b SSrns high
to his duties Since his health failed:
two months ago, he has been obliged