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

You know what want you for. Come
Now. what's the Use Of getting mad.
Don't be angry, George Come upstairs
"the front door Is locked"
We'll. I'll so rlsht down then" Ed
He had to pass by his brothers bed
asked: who Is it?'
oh, It's friend OF mine. III be
Then he went out the door. He was
In his stocking feet, and wore no hat
He seemed scarcely to have had time
10 reach the front door when his broth
or heard a shot and Il cry. He hastily
put on his trousers and ran down to
the street. There he found his brother
IN pool OF blood.
what had happened is told by Ber-
nard Weimesheimer. an eyewitness.
Weimysheimer lives az 1900 Avenue A,
floor. He Is q sufferer from heart dts
ease, and not being able TO sleep, was
sitting by the window.
AS he looked into the street he saw
OF the Meyer house. 4 policeman was
passing at the time, trying the doors
s sonF the from se dres,oPp Of
towards Seventy-ninth street. As he
passed the man before the Meyers door
the policeman said GOOD evening"
looked up at the Meyer window and
called:
''Ed' say. Edi'
Edward Meyer looked out Of the win
dow, SPOKE, and then went down to the
door. Weinesheimer says that the two
could not have exchanged half n dozen
words when the stranger drew a revolt
yer. fired. and walked calmly away.
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hand on his left breast and staggered
towards the little saltwater stand OF r.
schmidt, some twenty feet away lie
PLACED his hand on the stand and slowly
an effort to- cry Police" but he only
uttered the first syllable when u gurglc
came IN his throat and cut the cry short
All this time Weineshelmer was sit
shock. Meyer was on the pavement
when Weinesheimer found voice to yell
" Murder! Police!" Then he could see
ninth street, walking quite leisurely and
unconcerned. But as he heard the cry
Of the man at the window he started
to run. WeInesheimer thought he
lodged into basement on the next
block.
Almost as soon as Joseph Meyer
reached his brothers side. Policeman
Mcnonough. who was the man who had
before. arrived. Then Policeman Barry
came. and following him closely was
DIR. Jackson, Of 49, East Seventy-cighth
street who had been near enough to
hear the anot. An ambulance was sum
mcned from the Iresby tcr!ln Hospital.
but Meyer died before II came.
The circumstances which seem TO
stamp George Doughorty as tn. man
who. ala the shooting are known by NEST
Meyer, i, is said. was connected as a
messenger, with the brighton poo!;room
In Great Jones street They run hand
book there.
ON June rs Meyer was standing In front
of the pool-r )oin. when Young Dough-
erty came up to him and asked II he
could place IS bet on Dohbns in the
race for the Tidal Stakes at Sheep-heaj
Bay. Meyer took the s. and placed 1t
at 5 20 2 on.
Is said, WEIGHED.
,Dougherty. hunted high ani low for
him, but Meyer kept out Of the way.
Dpugherty saw number ~ Meyer
friends, who claim he said that unless
he got his IS back, aud quickly, too. he
was going to do Meyer up
At O'clock Capt. Pickett, his ward
man and Joseph Meyer went to Police
was sent out to all the precinct COM
manders telling them to search for
George Dousherty.
but without success The mans father
was ut the pool-room on Greht Jones
street early. hut almost Immediately
went away again.
When an Evening World" reporter
got there 1t was said that young George