The San Francisco call., 1906-10-21

outcry was handcufed and rushed
away from the scene.
/ Again the Gordon closed in about the
house and waited. Soon William Mey-
ers stepped out into the morning air,
dressed in the uniform Of a street car
conductor. The tactics employed in the
case of Richard were repeated with like
success.
Duke then hurriedly passed the word
to his men to take the place by storm.
At a signal they rushed into the shack
and there captured John Meyers and
his sister Edna, with her 19-months-
old baby. The brothers were handcuff-
ed and taken at once to the Bush-street
station.
BUNNER CAPTURES DOYLE.
Duke had expected to find Richard
Doyle with the Meyers family. Detec-
the district, located Doyle at Seventh
and Harrison streets, covered him with
revolver and effected his capture.
| The men were placed in separate
cells and the girl and her child were
taken to the Emergency Hospital.
| The capture bore out the epigram OF
Raoul PERM, the famous French detec-
tive When asked by a woman caller
at headquarters in Paris how he caught
criminals, he replied; by the petit
coat, madame"
1t was by this means that the four
men were taken yesterday. The petit
coats were those of the girl. Edna
Meyers, just 20 years of age. pretty.
but stepped in the lowest depths of
/ crime.
After the April fire. through Edna,
the Meyers boys. all grown men be-
1 tween % and 29 years of age, secured
part of the home of Mrs. Maynard as
| a temporary residence William Meyers
was employed by the Continental Safe
Maynard overheard him. through the
partition, say to his brother:
IT ran on to an easy game today. !
moved a safe into the Jap bank on
O'Farrell street. Those Japs have a
pile Of money IN an old trunk and ito
be dead easy.
THAT sounds nice" replied one of
It'd be a risky job"
The two brothers talked the matter
over far into the night. Later they
moved from the Maynard house and
! the robbery followed soon after
! Mrs. Maynard reported the converse
ton to the police A ruse was adopted
4 to locate the Meyers family, and
here 1t was that Edna Meyers uncon-
/ sciously became the betrayer of her
brothers. She answered a letter ad-
! dressed to her at the general delivery
1 by Mrs. Maynard. Mrs. Maynard in the
letter stated that she had information
! In regard to an adimrer of Edna. An
appointment was made for Friday aft
ernoon at South Park. Detective Tim
Riordan was advised of the proposed
meeting. Mrs. Maynard met the Mey-
ers girl as arranged, and when they
parted Detective Riordan followed the
young woman until he located her
| home on Second street
Evidence continued to pile up against
the four men all day yesterday. George
Herbert, real estate man, identified
their buggy as the one seen in front OF
i the bank on the day Of the robbery
1t was learned that Edna had pur-
/ chased a $40 dress the day after the
crime. IN addition, the girl made q
statement in which she stated that hei
brothers had been guilty of many petty
thefts. So deep in crime has the girl
sank that she says philosophically:
Every man will steal when he gets
the chance
AS the police searched out the de-
tails of the family life of the brothers
and their sister, an unspeakah1e degen-
eracy was brought to light. The family