The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-07-12
VERY RARE CASE
Son Of a Rich Banker Proves to be a
Burglar in City Of New York.
.HE FOOLED TaE POLICE

Stole Because Small Salary Didn't AL
low Him to Entertain Women Law
ishly.-Loving Cup He Took From
Peabody Home Leads to Arrest.
Tells How Easy it is to Rob.
The New York World says Karl
Won Metz Meyer, lieutenant in the
Norwegian army, who came to this
corntry on a <three-years furlough to-
study banking, was arrested in his
home, No. 1876 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn Friday night on a charge Of
burglary. His father is a wealthy
banker at Christiansand, Norway,
with branch in Munich.
"I am a burglar cried Meyer, a
handsome, soldierly looking man OF
twenty-four, when arrested. II am
a burglar and a conscience stricken
burglar I have recently committed
eighteen robberies on Columbia
Heights alone.
"Come with me-" continued Meyer,
ssI'll show you where many Of the
pawn tickets are He led the de-
tectiyes into a room that adjoined
his own and turned up the carpet in
a corner. There were twenty-one
tickets, representing jewelry and
silverware valued at $4,000.
"Why did@I turn burglar" Meyer
went on. t'Well I turned burglar
when began to live beyond my
means: needed money and got it
by. breaking into homes. It is an easy
thing to break into a Brooklyn home.
I never carried Jimmy or a reVol--.
yer. I didn't want to be caught with:
either in case of arrest I went to
the rear Of houses by climbing over
fences. ~
For two months ten detectives
from Brooklyn headquarters have
been looking for: Meyer. In their
night yigils they became well aers
quainted with the handsomely dress,
I'd young man who lived at No: 1S5
Columbia Heights and they felt sor-.
ry for him when he told them that.
he was unable to go to sleep. To the
detectives the man was known as
Lieutenant having Informed. them
who he vas and what he was doing
in this country.
The man was seen almost nightly
on the streets by the detectives and:
policemen. He could always tell
them that a man was better dead.
than a sufferer from insomnia. He
would enter his own home and next.
morning a new robbery would be re-
ported.
Until the burglary Of the house OF!
Charles S. Peabody, No. l2S Willow
st., June 18th. there was never so.
much as suspicion against the Nor
wegian lieutenant and banking clerk.
The Peabody burglary took place in
the early morning. Meyer had gain
ed entrance at the rear, and when all
was quiet he stole out OF the front
door: One of the things he took was
large silver loving cup whi-;l be-
,onged to Dudley Peabody, son OF
Charles S.
Half q block down the street Meyer.
reht sight of detective IN the
,uadow O. a house. While passing a
vacant lot he dropped the loving cup
over the fence. There it was>found
an hour later by a milkman and re-
turned to the Peabody home.
Couldn't sleep again. spoke up
Never as he addressed the policeman;
then he passed on. When the loving
cup incident was told the policeman
on post recalled having spoken to
Meyer, who walked past the spot
where the cup was found.
s-lieutenants Tenney ana
Ward was assigned to keep watch
on Meyer. The Norwegian seemed 10
know he was under suspicion. He
continued lis nightly walks. but the
robberies ceased. Not one bit Of evil
dence could the detectives get against
him and they feared to arrest the
man because Of his position.
Friday night, however, the TWO
mon from headquarters went to Mey-
er's room and ,burssssin upon him,
telling him he was under arrest; that
he was the burglar for whom the po-
lice had been looking for many
months. After Meyer had completed
his confession and shown where the
pawn tickets were hidden, he said:
"I came to this country two years
ago. I attribute my downfall to Wo-
men. It was all my own fault; they
fascinate me. got a place in the
foreign department Of the Adams Ex-
press Company and made good from
the fifirst day. e h1:nI lost my health
but this breakdown was not due to
dissipation Of the usual sort. was
due to my fondness for staying up
late and talking to some sretty wo-
man.
MAIL CARRIER SHOT DOWN.