New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-06
eft BROOKLYN RAFFlE,
WHO C0NFESSES CRIMES
Judue Dixie Puts Police on Ira'I
of aNorwegian Bankers Son.
Who Robbed Is Houses
PAWN TICKETS FOR $4,000
ro.ol Thefts $4,000, Police
sov-Prisoner, Who Adver-
,ised for Bride, Weeps at
Note from Girl.

SATISFIED that they had the man who
-. ,Asn robbing houses on the Heights
p.,os,vn. the police last night arrested
-. home. No. 1S5 Columbia Heights,
-, Metz Meyer, who said he was for
..,,. lieutenant in the Norwegian
me- twenty-five pawn tickets, aggre-
S.,,rg $500 were found in his apart
80, The police said he was respon-
..s,. ,or the theft Of jewelry, silverware
"a spparel valued al about $1,000.
=. police Headquarters he broke down
-. confessed. He said his thefts be-
~ some time in April. and a week ago
.,h.r he thought the police were sus-
..c,ine him. he decided to abandon his
1,,otsssion" Tor the time being. He fig
.,.d thai in all he had committed eigh-
,sen burglaries.
lam glad it is an over Metz Never
.,B My conscience has bothered me
ever since l started on this hazardous
business. and my sleep has been inter
,pr,ed time and again. OFTEN ] would
ii, awake and figure how soon the police
v,opld have me in their clutches. Now
that thsy have. / hope that the case will
rome 10 trial soon. II cannot come too
quick
Prior to starting in the burglary bust
ness Metz Never said, he had been en-
Moved BY Lieberman and Thauman &
%. Manhattan brokers. and later in the
foreign department of the Adams EX-
Iress Company.
The prisoner Was "a graduate of the
University of Heidelberg, he said, and of
the Norway Military college, and mas
ter Of FIVE languages. He added that
his father. Ludwig Metz Meyer. was the
head Of several banking houses includ-
,ng one with branches IN Chrisuania,
Munich and London.
In his rooms the police found about
Eve hundred letters written to him by
rirls and young women. Among them
was one addressed 20 My Big Boy Carl,
Fins Inn Harrison. Me
Although he seemed 10 be cool at his
arrest Metz Never broke down and wept
when he was shown this letter He was
sorry for her ne -aid. as she was the
only girl that he ever loved. He added
thst he knew her in his native country.
Shortly after his arrival in this coun-
N. three years ago. Metz Meyer adyer-
iled in one Of the evening papers, say
ing that he WIS looking for a bride.
In this advertisement ne specified that
the woman who would marry him must
be refined and cultivated, but that she
6id not need much money. as ne was we'll
supplied H insisted that she must
have tyle beauty and education, so he
could present her al the court Of King
Haskon Of Norway. 10 which he pro-
fesssd 70 have entree.
Acting on Judge Norman Dike's infor-
nation that there had been a number Of
huglares on the Heights, ten plain
te,has men were detailed TO that sec
ton 10 run down the thief IT was NOT
sntil few davs ago that the police first
cot c line on him He was seen coming
from one Of the houses in the neighbor-
hocd closely followed by negro. who,
me police said. carried off the loot.
Some Of the places ransacked by Metz
Never were as follows: May (. entered
the apartment ~ Mrs. J. Conger, 30. 1876
Columbia Heights May O. Charles W.
Jldson. Nc $50 Columbia Heights. May
T. Mrs 2 O.. White. No. . Pier~epont
Iaee Ma lf L ". Palmer, No 13i Co
lmbia Heights. June 3. D. 4. Campbell
10 10 Columbia Heights, and june ~,
Charles ! Peabody No. IS Willow
street