The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-07-20
VERY RARE CASE.

Son OF Rich Banker Proves to be a
Burglar i'm City of New York.
The New York World says Karl
Won Metz Meyer, a lieutenant in
the Norwegian army, who came to
this country on a three-years fur
Tough to study banking, was ar
rested in his home, No. 1S5 Column
bia Heights, Brooklyn Friday night
on charge of burglary. His faith
er is wealthy banker at Chris
tiansand. Norway, with a branch in
Munich.
Il am a burglar" cried Meyer, a
of twenty-four, when arrested. 81
am a burglar and conscience
stricken burglar. l have recently
committed eighteen robberies in
Columbia Heights alone.
Come with me-" continued Mey-
or. I'll show you where many of
the pawn tickets are" He led the
detectives into a room. that ad-
Joined his own and turned up the
carpet in a corner. There were 21
titkets, representing jewelry and
sliverware valued at $4,000.
why did l turn burglar?" Meyer
went on. We'll l turned bur-
glar when 1 began to live beyond
my means. l needed money and l
got it by breaking into homes. It
Is an easy thing to break into a
brooklyn home. l never carried a
Jimmy or a revolver. 1 didn't want
to be caught with either in case of
arrest. Il went to the rear of
houses by climbing over fences"
For two months ten detectives
rom Brooklyn headquarters have
oeen looking for Meyer. In their
ilC
quainted with the handsomely dress
ed young man who lived at No.
1a5 Columbia Heights and they felt
sorry for him when he told them
THAT he was unable tc go to sleep.
To the detectives the man was
known as Lieutenant" having in
fol med them who he was and what
he was doing in this country.
The man was seen almost night
ly on the streets by the detectives
and policemen. He could always
tell tnem that man was better
dead than sufferer from insom-
mia. He would enter his own home
and next morning a new robbery
would be reported.
Until the burglary of the house
OF Charles S. Peabody, No. 1928
Willow St., June 10Th, there was
never so much as a suspicion
against the Norwegian lieutenant
and banking clerk. The Peabody
burglary took place in the early
morning. Meyer had gained en-
trance 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 which
oeomged to Dudley Peabody, son
of Charles S.
Half a block down the street
Meyer caught sight of a detective
In the shadow of a house. While
passing vacant lot he drapped the
loving cup over the fence There
1t was found an hour later by a
miikman milk and retYfned to the Pea
Couldn't sleep again, spoke
up Meyer a% he addressed the po-
nceman; Een he passed on. When
Lhe Fovl1S cup incident was told the
poncemhn on post recalled having
sPoKeN to Meyer, who walked past
the spot where the cup was found.
Detectives = lieutenants Tenney
and Ward were assigned to keep a
watch on Meyer. The Norwegian
seemed to know he was under sus-
picton. He continued his nightly
walks but the robberies ceased. Not
one bit of evidence could the de-
tectives get against him and they
feared to arrest the man because of
his position.
Friday night, however. the two
men from headquarters went to
Meyers room and burst in upon
him, telling him he was under ar
rest; that he was the burglar whom
the police had been looking for
many months. After Meyer had
completed his confession and
shown where the pawn tickets
were hidden, he said:
II came to this country two
years ago. l attribute my downfall
TO women. 1t was all nv own fault;
they fascinate me. l got a place in
the foreign department OF the Ad-
ans Express Company and made
good from the first day. Then 1
lost my health but this breakdown
was not due to dissipation of the
usual sort, but to my fondness for
staying up late and talking to some
pretty woman"