Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-05-16
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE
EDWIN F. MEYERS HOLD UP
Myers Says He Did Not Offer to Bet,
but Was "Taken-in" Like
'Rube", Doped and Robbed.
Lincoln, May s, OF.
Custer County REPUBLICAN,
Broken Bow. Nebr.

Custer County REPUBLICAN,
Broken Bow, Nebr.
GENTLEMBN:- We understand
that you printed the associated
p'ess dispatch which pictured
the robbery of my brother, E. f.
Myers, in such a disgraceful and
libelous light. This same dis
patch was published By local
papers recently, but they have
also since condemned the truth
aud accuracy of this libellous
STORY" and gwen the story more
correctly as presented in the en-
closed clipping. II you have not
already made similar mention
of this matter will you not please
do Edwin and all concerned JUS
tice, by branding the purport of
the former articles which present
him as being robbed while gamb-
ling, and in the Tenderloin, etc,
as sensational newspaper story.
Awaiting and watching your
pleasure in this matter, ] am,
Very truly yours,
A. l. MYERS.
p. S.-John Mccormick, the
principal in this robbery, the
man who got my brother to drink
glass of lemonade (drugged } ;
was just sentenced to 4 years in
Sing Sing. A. |. M.
The clipping referred to above
is follows:
Edwin +. Myers, the former Nebraska
University boy, concerning whose rob-
berg of 81 500 in New York conflicting
reports have been printed, has gone to
some pains to refute the press story that
enanateG from Gotham to the effect that
he lost his money in pool game In
| substaniiation of his own story that he
was drugged and robbed he sends the
following: a
Twenty-seven Hasting Hall Cambridge
Mass, April 29.-I enclose a statement
which Assistant District Attorney Krotel
signed. 1t shows how untruel the lurid
details were in the dispatches published
recently. Nor are the other details OF
the dispatch more correct than the
hbelous one which is refuted by what
Mr.. Krotel says:
The statement that one way the ten
| thousand criminals of New York obtain
immunity is by standing in with the
criminal court reporters seems not with
out foundation.
In fact it was to Police Commissioner
Bingham that / went for advice. He
urged me to prosecute, but had l known
the way should be misrepresented / am
inclined to thin k should have done as
the detectives say is almost always done,
let them go. 1t is hard to go into court
when you have been imposed on for
twenty -four hours, even though it be by
professional criminal who has employed
tricks, poison and falsehood.
Mccormack spotted my western hat,
bumped into me, asked if / knew some
of the prominent men in Harvard and
got me to drink a glass of doped lemo
made in the first five minutes of our
acquaintance. He kept me doped
enough so that | could not think of even
one thing at time for twenty -four hours
during which time he never let me get
with messenger boy at the bank He
bciioWSt al thS udi thCli
when / got my draft oashed said he
would be paid some money in basement
at IoII Sixth Ave-, (Which New York
man tells me is over a mile from the
Tenderloin, instead of in it rs the story
said } When went down there with him
four of his pals followed us and instead
of paying me what he had borrowed he
helped them to rob me of what had.
Yours truly,
EDWIN +. MYERS.
Criminal Courts Building, New York
April 29.-In the case of the People VS..
John Mccormack there was no evidence
that Myers made any bets, or offered to
make any bets, on his skill in playing
pool. or on the skill of anyone else Had
the jury believed that Myers was gamb-
ling, conviction could not have followed
PAUL KRoTEL,
Deputy Assistant District Atty.