New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-12

turned TO the fat what time It? About 9
O'Clock In the evening.
| Q-Then when DR. Ninden sent for? AIT
: : O'Clock
o-Mcanwhie Brandt had taken tho croton oil?
Q-What al Or Mnden say the matter
with him A-Chronic dysentery.
It was Inflammation OF the bowels? Ale said
Odd Brandt take DR. MInden's medicines? A
o-what was done with them? Ave threw
o.-Who? Abr. Meyer. Mrs Meyer and 7.
Q.-liow long was Brand, sick? A.-Twenty
Q.-And how often did DR.. Mlnden call? A.
GLOW do you know? Al heard Meyer say
I, was five days after Brandt took HIS first dose
q croton oil that Muller saw Meyer put something
In Brandrs food Mrs. Meyer was present NJ the
time and saw it also. II was a white powder and
II came out Of a little bottle. and ne Is tina;
he Meyer II ut least twenty times. The
bottle had the label ''antimony' II. He also
Meyer put another substance into Brandts
food from a bottle labelled "arseniccm album 10
He Meyer use this substance twice once on
March d and then on March q; and the two sub
scquent days he Meyer administer capsules
70 Brandt five or six times. and Meyer told him
that they contained pure arscaic Brandt was In
bed all these days.
SAW TIE MAN DYING. But DIDN'T HELP HIM.
The witness saw hin once twice each day, but
noticed nothing in particular about his eyes. his
complexion. his lips the tips of his He
complained OF pains but did not say what kind OF
pains Brandt died on March 30.
Odd you give him any assistance during any
O-D.in't you speak TO him? A-No.
Q-You occupied the room next to his? Ayes.
Didn't he often need help? Ayes.
9-YYou } iGs stood around there and saw dying
man in distress without i,ftnS = hand to help him
Tho wltnegs rave these answers WlthOu. anything
In his pudgy face to suggest that a dying man
was anything more to him than dying rat.
Mr.. Brooke took up the subject OF Muller's per
juries n connection with the proof Of death fur
nshed to the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany Muller accompanied Mrs Meyer to the
Office OF tia, company on April 2. the same day
that Brandt was buried. lie took oath there In
the name Of August Winners that he had known
Brandt for twelve years
O-Was that true? A.-No.
Q-You committed perjury then, dill you? A.
oHcw much money did ,iI, Mrs Meyer collect
o.1How much OF it did you get? A.-seven nun
drrd and fifty dollars.
Mr.. Brooke paused looked at the jury looked at
the District Attorney. looked at the witness and
looked at the Court. and everybody knew that
something coming. The questions and answers
following were what came. Mr.. Brooke speaking
In clear. distinct. ley tones:
I. u
O. tell me what part Of 5000 the sum of
$3.50 Is? Alt Is one-duarter
NST M hsrs ws SG II that plot
many OF you there? A-Four.
Q.-You got your qua, Quarter; err, A,IYes va
C.-It all you thought you were entitled to?
Ayes
9.-Hre You sure he is deadg A.-Yes
Q.-Thcn when YOU got your $780, and Meyer and
Sc s4sc % fors cue" s'' ' '' WIZ was '"' ''"''
Muller thought long while this ques-
ton and then said he couldn't say. And Mr.
Brooke delivered himself of low. sonorous him"
Muller said that he went TO Brandts funeral. from
which Mr. Brooke took him suddenly to East
Baden. Germany. ard asked him II he had
been In jail there. He said he hadn't lie denied
having been convicted Of having poisoned somebody
and Of having served term In prison for It, Then
Mr. Brooke asked him If he did not know he had a
wife living when he married Mary Nelss. and he
said he wasn't sure about It, In the next sentence
he said that 1t to his wife In Germany that he
sent the remittance through Leopold Morse 4 Co.
September 49, 1892 and that the date OF his mar
riage to Mary NeIss April "a, 1888.
Q-Then you knew you committed bgamy. didn't
Q.-Why not? Al don't know as / call her my
Q.-who? A.-The lady In Germany
omWby notI Didn't you marry her? Al don't
g, ceremony took place. didn't It? Ayes.
mted bigamy when you married Mary Nciss? A.
Yes.
BUILDING UP THEIR CASE AGAIN.
Mr. Brooke gave final him" and sat down
The cross-examinatlon of Muller was ended. In
come respects 1t had been tremendously destructive;
but Immediately the prosecution brought on Wit
ness after witness to build up their case again
The first or these Claes lubbock. He was a
clerk in Chicago. and lived in a house there during
the fan or 1881 with Ludwig Brandt Together they
shared the same room. He identified Brsndts pict-
ure II beng also In evidence, that i vas true
likeness OF the man who had died In N" ''r''~''''-