The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-16
IS IT A BLACKMA1L CASE 7
RESULT OF MR.. MEBRs's ALLEGED
OABLE-CAR FILTRATION.

According to the Tnilor's story He Wrote TO
the object OF It and was Forced By Her
Husband to write n Cheek TOR 400 ne an
Amende-Hussand's Companion Arrested.
"Do 1 look small enough to sit there r.
Bernard J. Myers, who had just tried to make
room on tho scat of a Broadway cable car for tho
young woman who spoke, looked up at her and
laughed. She was already laughing, in an APP
parently restrained way. Mr.. Myers. who tells
Of tho trihing between himself md the young
woman. Is the head of u tailoring firm n, 81
West Thirtieth street. He is a widower, and he
didn't sec why, he says, II a young woman made
herself agreeable to him, he should not look
with favor upon her. The young woman gazed
at the narrow place Mr.. Myers had made for
her, and looked pathetically weary. MI. Myers
Jumped up and bowed.
take my seat, please" ho said.
"You arc very polite" said the young woman
as she sank into tho seat with a look of graft.
tudo. Just then n man sitting beside the young
woman left the car. She called the attention Of
Mr.. Myers to It. He bowed and started to sid
down.
To his surprise the young woman moved over
90 that he could not sit down. She looked up al
him and smiled roguishly.
"Am i small enough to sit there, do yea
think y he asked.
She laughed outright and made more room for
tALhs ohu bO - eS""s hh'ot hSNolhll 10 MT,
Myers, Ia the way It all began. He told the
magistrate about part o. 1t in Jefferson Market.
the rest of II he told to Detectives worden and
Brownoll Of the Mercer street station. Then, his
story continues. he and the young woman
journeyed downtown together on the cable car.
Mr.. Myers found himself becoming acquainted
worry fast. At Eighth street ho invited his new
friend to alight and have lunch with him at the
Sinclair House. She wouldn't. Not that she
vwauldp'f ha vary clad ipdead IN lp,ok
with him, but she had another engage
ment ut the Post Office. At his suggestion they
gave one another their names and addresses.
She said that she was Mrs. Warner, and that
her homo was a boarding house in West Thirty.
fourth street. He left the car at West Third
street. After a day or two he wrote her a lettcr
jocularly reminiscent Of tho cable car episode
and asked her to meet him.
For a week he heard nothing from tho letter.
But yesterday morning, according to his story.
two mon came into his Office. ono of them APP
parently greatly excited. The excited one was
waving above his head, Myers said. O letter
which he recognized as the one he had written
to Mrs. Warner.
"How dare you, siri he cried. "How dare
you. sir. write a letter like this to my wife Z
81 didn't know the woman was your wife,"
Myers answered. II didn't know she was any
body's wife"
AaCiC u q hCdttu Nohf onblohs Ia II uFbO
of which. Myers said. the man put his hand TO
his hip pocket as II to draw q revolver. Finally,
according to Myers, his visitor said that he
would give tho letter back to Myers and call
everything all right If Myers would give him
500. He added that he was A. r. Warner. a
walking stick over Myers head. and, Craving
S S9s s sd si Ea' G sb ssiS; for iii si5Sd 5yo you Just one min
Then, according to Myers, Warmers companion
You are getting of cheap" he said.
You" said Warner e his companion, "ssay
away. The other man remained. After a few
minutes the stranger asked Mr.; Myers for a
70 get the water. Instead, he sent his brother 10
fh ; . bank ito to stop RaypMs 6Ics on the check; ho
vent back With !IGiSS"tah them to 81 West afG Third str wao
B brow lS8n srr mafIef him e0m He saia 1 that l se Ms;
Harry G; Day, a collector. living at ~ Barrow
spselsit! oH n Re ef told Is the Ss'n police I that d he had &
known Warner for three years. Warner came
sultins letters to Mrs Warner and that.
f ss cali a h iSe man d snSqla' He &c asked Ess ps s9ip as
come along for company. Day said that he had
RG. ese @yps sesf had dde escnIkbe she m In Mye srssSe ofiss'
the Setect i, said, he found a note like this:
Day repeated his statement in court, but did
not explain the note. He explained his remark
that Myers was escaping Gheaply by saying that
he meant that il any man insulted his wife that
mans neck would DO broken.
Day was remanded. pending tho attempt OF tho
Mercer street detectives to find Warner. They
found that he had called on Mrs. Day, at II
Barrow street. during the afternoon. Mrs. Day
told them that Warner had said to her in the
%5 hIeiienss Of 81 tho Nv. Sat w, th"t ss oo Shs 81 Get them ssr b 1nc
band out of trouble by .Going to the station. but
that he was not going inio the jaws of q trap
like that. Whereupon, she said to him, she told
them:
DO you mean to say you are cur enough To
let an innocent man suffer for your wrongf
His answer. she said, was: That is Just what
lam"
Last night, accordingly, she was doing her best
to help the detectives find him. They watched
the boarding house on Thirty-fourth street,
where they learned he and Mrs. Warner had
occupied lodgings for three weeks, up to a late
hour, but without success.
Warner, Detective Worden said last night, had
been presented at the hank before Myers's
brother reached there, but the bank had refused
to honor 1t, for reasons satisfactory to the
cashier.
where Yesterdays Fires Were.