The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-06
You know what want you for. Come

You know what want you for. Come
Nov, what's the use OF getting mad.
Don't be angry George Come upstairs
~ can't" the man George replied,
the front door is locked"
We'll. III go right down then" Ed
ward Myers replied.
lie had to pass by his brother. bed
70 get doTnstairs: As he did 30 Joseph
oh, It's friend OF mine. IN he
Then he went out the door ~ Was
in his stocking feet. and wore no hat
or coat.
lie seemed scarcely 20 have had time
to reach tho iron, door when h's broth
.r heard shot and Il cry. Ne hastil,
put on h's trousers nnd ran down 20
the street There h" found hts brother
IN a pool Or blood.
What had happened is toll BY Per-
naid "eimesheimer an eye witness.
Weimesheims lives az 100 ANT7f1e "A
directly across the street, on the third
floor. He Is a sufferer from heart dis
cnse and not being able to sleep, was
sitting by the window.
AS he looked into the street he saw
Of he Meyer house ( polteemsn Vas
passing s Ct the ting tr%tngs the doors
going from the direction Of Eightleth
passed the man before the Meyers door
The policeman said Good evening"
looked up at the Meyer window and
called:
Edward Meyer looked out Of the win
dow. spok.. and then went down TO the
door. Weinesheimcr says that the two
could not have exchanged half a dozen
words when the stranger drew a revol-
yer. Aired. and walked calmly away.
Meyer said not word He placed his
hand on his left breast and staggered
towards the little saltwater stand OF +.
Schmidt, some twenty feet away. He
placed his hand on the stand and slowly
sank 10 the pavement. once he made
an effort IL cry Police" but he only
uttered the first syllable when n gurglc
All this time Weinesheimer was ait
ting In the window. overcome by the
shock. Meyer was on the pavement
when Weine ph;,nI; found found voice TO yell
that the stranger was near Seventy
ninth street, walking quite leisurely and
unconcerned. But as he heard the cry
of the man at the window he started
to run. Weineshelmer thought he
lodged into basement on the next
block.
Almost as soon as Joseph Meyer
McDonough. who was the man who had
passed the stranger only few minutes
before. arrived. Then Policeman Barry
came, ana lpIlOWlHV MIN 'lCSely was
Dr. jackson. of 3S2 East Seventy:elghtii
street. who had been near enough w
hear the shot. An ambulance was sum
moned from the Presbyterian Hospital.
but Meyer died before II came.
The circumstances which seem to
stamp George Duugherty as the man
who I!d the shooting are known by most
Of Meyers friends.
Meyer, 1t l. said. was connected AS a
messenger with the Brighton pool-rpOm
in Great Jones street. They run II hand
book there.
OF the poOl-rJom, when young Dough
, erty came up to him and asked II he
race for the Tidal Stakes at SneepSheai
Bay. Meyer took the So and placed 1t
ut . to on.
Dobbins won the race, AMI Meyer II
Is said, WEIGHED.
For the next few days after that
Dousherty hunted high ana .ow for
him. but Meyer kept out OF the way.
Dougherty saw Il number of Meyer :
friends, who claim he said that unless
he got his s. back. and quickly, too he
was going to do Meyer up"
At o'clock Capt. Pickett. his ward
man ana Joseph Never wenr 10 Police
was sent out to all the precinct com
inarders telling them to search for
George Dougherty.
The police tried to find Dou6herty.
but without success. The mans father
was at the pOol-room on. Great Jones
street early, but almost Immediately
went away again.
Whom an Evening World reporter
! got there II was said that young George