The herald., 1895-02-20

chamber of it was entirely empty.
On throwing the bar down from the jail
door, Meyers was seen walking up ana
down, handcuffed, in the solitary cell.
He smiled pleasantly, and greeted The
Herald man with an idiotic laugh He is
a man about p years of age, about flve
feet seven inches in height and slenderly
built. He had on a pair OF overalls, an
old coat, and light stiff-rimmed hat,
which he wears tilted on the back OF his
head
"Wby did | commit the crme?" asked
Myers in reply to the reporters question.
- viii tell you. ! wanted to get money
enough to take myself and my kid cut OF
this state. You see my wife, who is work
ing at Barnes place in town, is not living
with me, and we have been separated for
two years She has one child and wanted
to take it away from her and leave Cali
fornia.
II have worked as a carpenter and as
an architect and | have drawn plans for
several bank vaults, and | thought |
could get into this vault without much
trouble. | did not know that there was a
steel safe inside with a time lock on
it, or / never should have undertaken
the job. | first visited the bank
week ago Friday night and | then
found S62. II in small satchel, which L
spent in Los Angeles. | returned to Azusa
last Saturday night and again climbed in
the front window and worked awhile on
the combination without success. | heard
someone snoring in the back room, and |
left Monday night at 6 O'Clock | came
down from Los Angeles and waited until
| thought no one was around and | en-
tered the bank. turned my attention to
the combination, but had not fumbled
with it long when heard noise in the
back room | decided to take no chances
and started to get out the front window
where | came in, when suddenly there was
flash of lantern and the report of "a shot
gun. 1t missed me and ! made my es-
cape down the street | did not fire at
Daniels, for it was not necessary, and had
| fired at all | should have emptied my
gln.
II am now in bad fix, but | took a
chance TO get wealth, and lost. That is all
there is to it. My wife leaving me and
taking the baby with her has broken my
heart and made me reckless. l don't care
about anything now, and as matters stand
| guess | shall die behind prison bars. :"
The prisoner is brother-in-law Of Il.
C. Baldwin, Justice of the Peace of Azusa,
at present in Sacramento, and also
brother-in-law of Homer r. Bouldin, who
lives at 1925 Weyse street, in this city. He
has hung around Azusa for three or four
years. and has been source of great an
noyance to his family. He seldom worked,
and was dsliked by everybody in the
place.
Cashier Daniels was resting comfortably
at his home yesterday afternoon. The
physicians probed for the bullet but could
not locate it, and decided not to hunt for,
it again until the patient recovers from
the shock of the encounter 1t is sup
posed to have lodged in the ribs in the
vicinity of the left shoulder blade, and
while extremely painful the wound is not.
necessarily fatal
There is some doubt as to whether Daniels
was shot by Officer Stevens or Myers. The
formers pistol is 80 caliber and the lat
ter Al, so that when the bullet is extracted
it will tell the tale
Deputy Sheriff Insley went to Azusa
this afternoon and brought the prisoner
into the County Jail, where he will be
kept until his preliminary examination
is held in the town where he committed
the crime.