The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-07-30
RETURN OF JOSEPH ?. MYERS.
LANDED BY CHEF ORR TUESDAY
NIGHT.

Was Taken from the Train at the South
srn Crossing-An Unreservsd Conversation
on the Train.
Joseph P. Myres, the defaulting ex-
cashier of the Seaboard Air Line, in thi
city, arrived from New York on the trair
! of this system at 1850 Tuesday night, in
charge of Chief of Police Orr, whom
had gone forward with a requisitic
for him from the Governor of North Car
olina upon the Governor of New Yoak
Sheriff Smith met Chief Orr and his pris
oner at Monroe, and upon the arrival of
the train at the Southern Railway cross
ing, just east of the Carolina Central sta>
tion, it was stopped, and the officers and
the prisenor got off, and taking a carriage
in waiting, were driven to the Jail, to the
keen disappointment of crowd of about
200 which was awaiting the arrival of the
party at the station. A few persons
boys in the main anticipating the stop
which occurred, were on the spot. The
prisoner was not handcuffed. He was put
in Jail and will perhaps have preliminary
hearing this morning. Messrs. Burwell,
Walk r&Cansler, the Seaboard's attor>
neys, will assist in the prosecution
4 TALK WITH THE PRISONER
A representative ofthe OBSERVER hap.
pened to be on the Seaboard train return.
ing from Wilmington last night and talk.
cd with Myres from Hamlet to Marsh
ville-an hour and half. He is looking
as we'll as usual and expressed himself as
feeling as we'll as could be expected. He
wears a moustache and had last night q
four or five days growth of chin and
side whiskers instead of the former full
beard. Otherwise his personal appear
is unchanged.
He talked, last evening, with freedom
and apparently without reserve. He
comes home, he says, not to deny any.
thing, not to beg for sympathy, but to
confess his wrong-doing and to take
whatever may come. His wrong-doing
be refers solely to whisky and to com.
bination of circumstances at work. For
weeks before his defalcation and flight
he had, he says, been continuously under
the influnce of liquor-to that extent
that be could not command his own will
or actions. On the afternoon of the night
he left, he changed his resolution repeat
eddy. At one moment be would say to
himself that he was going; at the next he
suddan resolution. Between Charlotte
and Greesboro, in the state room of the
sleeper that night be drank two quarts
of whiskey. Somebody, he doesn't know
who, bought ticket for him from Char-
lotte to Greensboro; somebody he doesn't
know who, bought ticket for him from
Greensboro to New York.
Concerning bis arrival there and sub
sequent conduct he processes great cloud
mess. He says he does not know how
he spent his time there, except that he
was abroad every day, on the streets and
at the nearby resorts, and was at some
public place of amusement every night.
HE MADE A FRIEND.
Myres says he struck up with New
Yorker, of whom he made a friend, and
re members having given him $50. This
friend found that the detectives were af-
ter him and told him that they had tra-
ced him 10 the store of Rogers Peet Il
Co. He did not seek to avoid them, bnt
this friend sent off the seven, who were
working on the case, on false scents, to
New Jersey, New England and Pennsyl-
vania. AS soon as he began to shape up
and come to himself be resolved to come
home, and Mrs Bisonette, five days be-
fore his arrest, had expressed one OF her
trunks to her former home at Bolton, 5.
c., and mode ready to follow it herself.
Whether she has done so, where she is:
be declares he does not know. Detectiee
Thornhill gave her $50 of the money
found in her possession, she claiming
that part Of this money was hers. My
ers does not know how they blew In the
difference between the amount of money
he took away and the amount the officers
found them with, but remembers that
they rolled high.
DENIALs ENTERED.
The prisoner wishes it denied that he
refused to come home except upon req
uisttion. This statement was telegraph
ed from New York and Mr.. j. l.. Fox
told him OF having seen it in the Oh
SERVER. He says that he expressed his
anxiety to come at once but that the
State of New York does not permit cit>
izen of another State, arrested there,
charged with crime, TO be delivered to
the State in which the crime is charged
except upon requisition regularly made.
Yesterdays OBSERVER as to the con-
VorSaLlOn WulCu LOOA pIaCo OoG"0ou Ill
and the detectives at the time OF his ar
rest. He declars himself unable to recall
this conversation, except as to its sub
stance, but is emphatic in his declaration
that it was not as told yesterday.
HIS SPIRITS FAIR.
Myres appeared in very good spirits
throughout his conversation with the re.
porter, though it was learned afterwards
that he manifested great detection as the
train neared Charlotte. In his lengthy
conversation he said much of q personal
character, which it would not be just or
considerate to others to print or repeat
even if these things had not been given
the reporter in confdenc. The burden OF
his story was that he was betrayed by
LIQUOR into o reckless course of conduct,
he protested that he had no purpose to
set up pretense that had at any time
insane. He never proposed, he says, the
permanent abandonment of bis family
be would have taken his life first, He
describes q wretched condition of stom-
ach and nerves, with four days in the
hands of the Tombs physician, in recov'
ering from his protr acted debauch.--
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