Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09
DID NOT KEEP PREMISE
He Declared He Would Not Go Visit
ing, But Weakened.
HIS WIFE HAS HIM ARRESTED
Whole Family Was on His Trail and
Finally He Ends UP in the
Sheriffs Office.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK June S.-Mrs. Louis q.
Meyer wife of the wealthy asphalt ana
paving contractor of I56 9TH avenue. had
her husband locked up in the Ludlow
street Jail today on an order signed by
Justice Trux. Meyer couldn't secure the
slunD bail that Justice Trux fixed
Meyer was badly hurt about three weeks
ago In an automobile smashuD near the
Hotel Gramatan in BrOnxville while he Was
entertaining woman known Mrs
Kathryn Kcogh-ConradFuller Hardness
Meyer and the same woman had been ar
rested in Meyers office on February 10 last
on Mrs Meyers complaint. Policeman
Lemon who made tn" arrests. told Magis-
trdt. Finn at that tine Meyer and the
young woman with the hyphenated name
had been fighting with Mrs. Meyer in the
ottiyr and that the Office was considerably
mussed up during the row.
Mrs Meyer said she was willing enough
to forgive her husband after he got hurt in
the automobile accident ii he wOuli prom
Use to he good and quit paying attentions
to Mrs. Hardness. She got him 10 syn
promise. she says. agreeing to keep away
from Mrs. darkness. After Meyer rec0v
cred from his injury and able to get
about Mrs Meyer learned, She says, that
Meyer had broken his pledge. Last Friday
night Mrs. Meyer submitted an affidavit to
Justice Trux and got an order for her hus-
bands arrest. The order was served this
morning.
Hired a Man Nurse.
When she found out that the deputy sher-
If could not serve the order until today
Mrs Meyer hired a husky man nurse who
kept awake all Friday night and was on
the job with Meyer every minute of the
time The trained nurse who had been
attending TO Meyer. was relieved from duty.
This morning. when Deputy Sheriff Frank
Wagering went to the Meyer apartments
In the Wellaston, at Broadway and 96th
street. he found Meyer pleading with his
wife To relent, but she would not. Meyer
didn't look bit happy ne left his home
and started down town with Wagering He
grinned. though, and remarked to a flock
OF reporters that he was the best police
man in New York
Il have been watched night and day by
my wife and her son. and her sons wife,
said Meyer. IF many men had to stand
what have put up with they would have
taken a header off the Brooklyn bridge be-
fore now. [ have called on Mrs. Hardness,
but there was nothing in the agreement
that specified 1 should not go to my
friends.
Meyer saddle had been arrested. as he
Understood ttsSon the complaint of his wifes
lawyer, Henry d. Merchant, on the ground
that lie was getting ready to skip to avoid
paying aiiTuony in a divorce action Mrs.
Meyer had decided suddenly TO bring. Now
there is no law to make man live with
his wife IL he doesn't want to- said Meyer,
but | am willing to support her, and
am not going to run away. My wifeS all
right. but she gets queer notions. This
morning she helped me dress, fixed my tie
for me. got my cane. gave coffee and
then calmly handed me over to a deputy
sheriff. can you beat that?'
Tried to Get Bail
Meyer was pretty much excited in the
sherif's office and telephoned nervouSly to
friends in an attempt to get bail. Thomas
O'Callahan. Meyers lawyer, finally sent
word that he thought he could get a surety
company to fix up the ball bond, SO Dep
uty Wagering took Meyer to the office of
the Metropolitan Surety Company in the
Metropolitan building, but the surety COM
pauy decided it didn't care to put up the
bail and Wagering led Meyer back to Lud-
low street. On the way papers in Mrs
Meyers divorce suit were served on him.
In the affidavit on which she got an or
der for her husbands arrest Mrs. Meyer
sets out that she was about to bring suit
against him for absolute divorce, and that
she wanted him arrested Immediately she
feared ne about to leave the state.
She states that he had told her that it was
his intention Ito leave and go to some I'M
known place where he would build HIM
self up again. and that l would not know
where he was.
Might Abandon Her.
This statement" she stated, ''he made
to in a conversation over our matri-
monial differences. and l know in my heart
and mind that the defendant intends to
leave the state in few days and wholly
abandon me and my right of support and
amony.
Mrs. Meyer described the episode of the
wrecked automobile near the Hotel Grama-
tan. He was with a woman named
Hardness. she stated, named in the
complaint as correspondent, at the time of
the accident and she Is reported to have
sustained severe injuries and a broken hip.
Miss Agnes McCue, the nurse, told me that
rhe defendant says he is going to see Mrs.
Hardness as soon he can get out; that
he talks about her constantly. and that he
Is going away a soon as possible
She said that she had caused her lawyers
to prepare papers on which to ask for all
mOny at the rate of $3.50 week and 81 800
for her lawyer.