The Washington herald., 1907-06-09
WIFE FEARS FLIGHT
Mrs. Meyer Jails Husband to
Foil ElOpement.
CLAIMS HE BROKE PLEDGE
wealthy New York Asphalt Con-
tractor, Sued for Divorce, Unable
10 Furnish $4,000 Cash Bond.
Woman who Figures in Notorious
Case Is Also on Clutches.

New York, June S.-After night and a
morning filed with turmoil and trials.
Louis G. Meyer. the asphalt contractor
who recently signed stern and rock
bound agreement !. Nver again 20 pay at
tention to the fascinating Southern grass
widow with the hyphenated name, Mrs.
Kathryn Keogh Conrad-Fuller Hark-
ness, landed this afternoon in a state Of
collapse at the Ludlow street Jail, where
he must stay a prisoner until Monday
and perhaps much longer.
Meyer went to the debtors prison as a
/ result of his failure TO give the cash
bond of $4,000 which Justice Truax fixed
after the militant Mrs. Meyer had sworn
/ that she believed her husband meant to
fleet the country to avoid paying aiirnony
in the divorce action which, after many
threats and false starts, she is now
actually about to bring.
Thinks Couple About TO Flee.
| The newest chapters in the domestic un-
/ domestlcity Of the Louis G. Meyers dates
/ back two weeks ago when Mr.. Meyer
and Mrs. Hardness figured in an auto
mobile accident at the Hotel Gramatan,
I in Bronxville He had a leg fractured.
/ while Mrs. Hardness had a hip broken.
It was after his leg had been incased in
/ srlints and he had been removed to his
/ apartments in the WollastOn, at Ninety
sixth street and Broadway. that Mr..
/ Meyer, growing repentant, affixed his sig
nature to the pledge Of marital fidelity
which has since become famous.
But yesterday a new complication arose.
/ Mrs Never made a discovery. Accord
/ ing to her statement she found that AS
/ soon as he was able 10 limp her husband
/ had gone 90 the home Of Mrs. Harkness
! parents. Col and Mrs. Keogh 2)4 West
/ Seventy-ninth street, and paid two separ-
/ ate and distinct visits to Mrs. Meyer s
invalid rival Moreover, the wife declares
! that the couple were actually preparing
/ 20 fee together.
EIopement on Clutches.
It has been pointed out to Mrs. Meyer
/ that she has Cupid on CrUtChes. so %
speak, and that the course Of her hus-
/ band love for the fascinating Mrs. Hark-
uess must perforce 90 with a pronounced
/ limp. Il has been made plain 10 her that
I II AIr. Meyer and the widow should try %
elope they'd have 10 60 I'm an ambulance
and they probably wouldn't get any fur
thor than the casualty ward at Bellevue
/ seeing that Mr. Meyer stiu has his
broken leg to think Of and Mrs Hardness
her fractured hip. But Mrs. Meyer has
/ her own notions about it. Hence the war.
rant for Meyers arrest Hence the stall
wart gentleman who says he is a nurse
but who looks more like plain clothes
man. Hence the arrest.
Betimes this morning Deputy Sheriff
! Frank Wagering came tn the N9llastor
with his order of arrest lie took break
fast with the family In their apartment
Mir Meyer alone being absent, and the-
he performed his painful duty uuaiuch
inglS. a little later a door opened i-
/ the Meyer apartment and out came tA'
| deputy sheriff accompanied by a small
pale. middle-aged. unhappy looking mar
who wore a long froCk coat that dropped
almost % his reluctant heels, He used q
cane and limped percepubly.
Turned over to Sheriff with Kiss.
The small, unhappy man was Mr
Meyer Behind him. stern and determin.
ed. loomed his wife. a large. good-looking
woman. who wore the expression Of on'
who had seen her duty and expected q
do IT,
Meyer asserted that Dee and Airs. Meyei
/ had been the best of friends for the ias
couple Of days He said that he dineC
with her last night, that she poured hi.
coffee this morning. tied his necklte fol
. him. kissed him cood-by. and then handed
/ him over to Deputy Sheriff WelgeTlD.
Later Meyer was served with the di
/ vorce suit papers, in the charges Of
[ which the associations with Mrs. Hark
ness were but a single incident.