The evening world., 1894-02-07
WAS IT REVENGE?
The Meyer Family Says Rapow.'
sky Poisoned Their Soup.
Had Been lifted by Annie and Turned
Out by Her Father.
Eight Out Of Elevcn Persons Were
Taken al. -

The police have not yet arrested Isaac
Rapowsky. the peddler who. 1t is alleged
last evening poisoned the Meyer family
ut their home, 0 First street. though Po-
lcemcn Lang and Taylor have been ook-
Ing for him all night. mi q general
alarm has been sent to every station.
Rapowsky. who had been forbidden TO
visit the Meyer family owing to his
objectionable attentions to Anie, an
Gig steen- b oar-old daughter. called at
about 5 o'clock yesterday, when Mrs.
Meyer and her eieht-year-old son Harry
were alone. lie forced his way into the
kitchen and asked for something to eat.
Mrs. Meyer ordered him out. but refused
to go until given supper.
A pot of soup was on the stove at
the time. Mrs. Meyer and her son
went to the front part OF the Fat and
left him IN the kitchen. Harry was
sent back some ten minutes later to see
how the soup was doing. and discovered
that Rapowsky had gone.
Mrs. Meyer and her boy ate supper
alone, and partook of a quantity OF the
We returned home later" said Bessie
Never, the eldest daughter, to an .Even-
Ing World" reporter.
,wv ,9un. nother. tfonnaii, David.
all III. Mother told us not to al ary OF
the soup. as i did not taste good.
Annie said she was awfui,y hungry
taken sict shortly afterKaEds- When
ana he sent for Brother Max, who works
There wer. eight of us took some OF the
soup and all OF MS were sick"
Mrs: Meyer. Annie n Hannah. were
The physicians there state they will re-
cover. The police took what remained OF
the U and 1t is now at the Board Of
Health laboratory. on Bieecker street.
where II VIII be analysed.
hapowski VINO is charged with being
the cause OF the trouble, is a peddler,
aged nineteen years. He came here
from Augusotowia. Russia, two years
The Meyers hail from Gretna, Russia.
near the German boundry and about
powsky's father was a weil-to-do mer-
Meyer.
Annie Meyer and Papowsky vera
grew her affection for him. He was
cierking for a mercantile house there
and disappeared with a few hundred dol
here. The Meyers followed a year later
and lived at 157 Norfolk street, where
Papowsky boarded with them.
nv got mo trouble several times, ana
twlrce was sent to the island. The
Meyers declined to receive him a. a
boarder after that. but when they moved.
to 0 First street, again took him IN.
He remained for two weeks only. He
kept such hours and paid such marked
attention to Annie that the father o.
derca him out.
II threatened to kill Annie" Max
Meyer, the oldest son. said to an 'Eyen-
Ing World" reporter. land thai was one
reason. father ordered him out. He
wanted her TO marry him, but she only
laughed and said she did not care for
him. AS her second cousin he claimed
privileges that others did not have.
hope the police will catch him.
The police give Rapowsky a bad rec
ord. He was apedd1er of clocks ard
watches on the instalment pian.t Once
he was arrested for selling a brass tima-
piece for gold, At another timc he took
away a clock to be repaired and sold II
to n neighbor. The OWNER saw II and
ca used his arrest. He was again arrest
ed for drawing a weapon on a Gus
toner.
For the past two months he has been
out of employment. He he's made his
headquarters at a restaurant % Orchard
street. but has not been there since yes
terday.
Baruch Meyer. Arhie's father, is a
peddler of wrapping paper. They live
In the third fiat Of the tenement. Q First
street.
The family comprises eleven. eight Of
which partook OF the poisoned soup.