The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-28
DELvE into PAST
Meyer Brothers of Urbana, ILL.,,
Search for Their Father.
He Came to Kansas Years Ago
Carrying $4,000.
A MAN OF The SAME NAME
Died in Keith's Hospital in
1909, 1t Is Discovered.
Another or the Same Lived in
North Topeka.
A MAN OF The SAME name

BATTLING circumstances hinder the
search which brought j. c. Meyer and
Wilbur Meyer. brothers, from their
home at Urbana ILL.,, to Topeka in an
effort to discover what became of the
fortune in cash which their father
brought with him when he came TO
Kansas a dozen years or more ago
Today they commenced an 1nveSuSa-
ton of the records of the probate
court to determine if the Carl Meyer
who died here in Keith's hospital in
October, 1909, was not their rather
and the same man who lived for two
years in the old Adams house in North
Topeka. That Carl Meyer at about
the time of the flood. in 1908 was
known to have $4,000 cash deposited
in Wamego bank and other money
in a bank at st. Marys.
The Meyer who died in the hospital
in 1909 left an estate recorded at
$500 which was used up in settling
claims again it.
1T has been Is years since heard
directly from my father" said J. 9.
Meyer today as he laid the cause OF
his investigation before the record
clerk at the probate court, but 1t has
been nearly forty years since he lived
with his family We have been sep
arated most of that time. l believe,
though, that we have located his grave
in Rochester cemetery. About s.
years ago he sold his farm in Illinois
and came to Kansas. He went to Wa
mego and 1 have learned that he had
a good deal of money there which he
withdrew when he came to Topeka.
My brother is in St. Marys today trac-
ing a report that he had money on
deposit there about the same time
We have been unable to learn of any
money he had here except a small
amount in the Shawnee State bank
which was used up in settling his es-
tate. We are endeavoring to find some
one here who knew him well enough
to remember something about his af-
fairs while he lived here but we are
up against a curious complication of
difficulties
The Hand of Fate.
The hand of fate seems to have
been stretched out to obliterate the
for years the keeper of the historic
North Topeka hostelry where Meyer
lived for two years or longer, is dead.
DIR. H. H Keith, proprietor of the
Keith hospital where the supposed
Cary Meyer died. is an inmate of the
Topeka state hospital for the insane.
Dr. Keith at that time was coroner
of Shawnee county and he acted
dead man. With his mind a blank,
the sons of the missing Illinois farm
er have no hope of help from him.
DR. J. NJ. AmiS an associate of DR..
Keith and the physician in charge of
Meyers case, is dead. The undertaken
who buried the man who died at the
Keith hospital has moved away ana
for a number of years has been living
in California.
Thus far the efforts of the search
ers have been discouraging. So far
as they can ascertain, the father of
the Meyer brothers, who are men of
middle age, was not actively engaged
in business. He is believed to have
come here before the time of the
flood which N 1903 swept over North
Topeka and he is supposed to have
had his interests there, for he contin-
ued living there after the flood.
What became of the $4,000 he
brought here from Wamego is thus
far a scaled mystery. AS yet no rec
ord has been discovered of it's having
been deposited in bank here al
though the investigation of the local |
bank records has not been concluded. !
How much more he may have had
deposited at st. Marys or elsewhere, |
his sons cannot even guess, since they
were not familiar with their fathers
affairs.
Today the two men are registered |
at the hotel where their father lived. |
now under a different management !
and called the Baltimore. They ex-
pect to remain long enough to make !
up their minds about the possibility
of clearing up the record of their IA
theirs life and have put the matter in