The evening world., 1893-12-07
HIS JURY COMPLETE.
Rumors that Mrs. Meyer Has
Confessed Officially Denied,
Muller Expected to Be the First
Witness Against the Doctor.
Mr. McIntyre scouts the Rumor that
Baum 10 Not Dead.

The jury to try DR.. Henry c. F.
Meyer was completed at 4 o'clock this
afternoon by the acceptance for the
welfth seat of Alfred w. Howes, nan
Rger, at 81 Frankfort street, and resi-
lence at Fulton and Pelham avenues.
Ninety-seven citizens had been ex-
kmined to-day before he two empty
beats in the box were filled. and out of
90 citizens summoned on special panels
|iuring the week $40 had been examined.
h jury is composed of exceptionally
Intelligent business men.
Assistant Distr!ct-Attorney John F.
Mcintyre, who prepared the case, made
he opening address. announcing In ad-
lance that he should talk an hour.
A rumor got abroad to-day, that Gus
[av NJ. A. j.. Baum, for whose murder
pr. Meyer is on trial, is not dead at all.
ut that he had turned UP alive to-day.
nd that the District-Attorney had re-
eived a visit from him.
Mr.. Mcintyre laughed at the story. He
aid that the man allegeL to have been
murdered had died under the name OF
ludwig Brandt, and 1t was only a sup
|~osition, backed by apparent authentic
illnesses. that he was Baum.
DIR. Meyer IL on trial for the muir
Ter of the man mentioned in DIR. Min
lens certificate of death and buried at
br. Meyers expense after a funeral at
Dr., Meyers fiat. The real Baum may
be alive, We have not seen or heard
If" fims .thodEK we caused the country
10 be secured for him. 1t can make
ho difference either way"
The presence of Mrs. DR.. Meyer every
hay In the court of Oyer and Terminer.
Where her husband Is on trial for pois-
Ining. gave rise to a revival of the story
hat the woman with the laughing blue
|yes had confessed. utter all. n would
be put on the witness stand to tell the
tory OF how her husband, with Carl
Muller, alias WINNERS, and herself. had
onspired with Gustave NJ. A. J. Baum
o defraud the insurance companies out
( the heavy insurance on Baum's life;
low they administered arsenic and
he appearance OF a very sick
nan for the purpose Of fooling a
Equitable physician, and how the poison
atient March 80. 1892.
The rumor brought an immense crowd
o the white courthouse, for IT was
n the Jury box would be speedily filed.
Ind the TRIAL actually begin. to-day.
But John +. Mcintyre, the able and
cor scientious public prosecutor, VINO Is
his morning. He said Mrs. Meyer was
(rombs 50 that the witnesses might
Identify her. ,
the story, too. DIR. Meyer n his wife
land alleged accomplish exchanged many
signals across the court-room, the doc-
tor manipulating his great, bulging., gilt
fashion in signalling to the blue-eyed.
smiling woman who has kept the faith
with him SO completely.
Carl Muller, the alleged accompllce OF
and who fell in love with Mary Neiss.
the servant girl who, 1t Is alleged. wal
being poisoned to death in Toledo.and ran
away with her and married her. was on
Mr.. McIntyre's schedule as the first wit
ness. to be followed by the ro~sy.cheeked.
big-eyed, frizzy-haired young woman
herself.
under the names of William Reuter-,
Hugo Wayler, Henry Meyers and Vein
er, has been twice tried for murder In
Chicago. the first time on a charge OF
poisoning his wife, and the second on a
with the purpose OF securing the insur.
snce on the life of the victim; once In
s sSd'S once sef FOR alleged al eff raasdul e1 'H iifs IL.
surance.. He was acquitted on the muir
der trials, but, 1t Is alleged, was con-
yicted and imprisoned on the othei
Muller and his wife were this mornine
brought down by Jack Galieghar from
The House Of Detention. where they nave
been held since September. when the
posed in her by the Dlstrlct.Attorney and
ran away from the Brooklyn boarding.
house where she was Lying at the sN.
pense Of the county OF New York. She
was caught In Rochester and broughi
back and placed where she could moi
10 "S ons ese 9 blame Carl Muller fol-
%tepenting of his share In the consplrae.
falling in love with her and clipping ,tc
ave her life for himself; Mary Neis'
Muller. alias Winners. Is most n,
osresting young woman. = looks nk
down Broadway during she Summer
months, only she wears g long velvel
sioak trimmed with fur. Her hat IL
GCainty thing trimmed with fur and nav
around her RReeaaaa0 t,S Mfys soabrstts crimp,
are clustered. and behind them is I
bunch OF the crinkly brown hair. con
"n TS close to the head by Q by OF ribbon
{; sI.5 marry ri her Ioots Slks a SSSSnSE .J Ssys 4
dark brown, close cut. The couple 81
y court directly behind the pallid-facet
Ioetor. whom they expect to e Il
mis, electrical chair.
The woman who SO strangely resem
S%es Or. Meyer, who says she is Mrs
Mauger, and who Is, by a remarkabl,
oShcldence, the person engaged by Dr
eshteen-months-old baby boy. came. 4
tteurt alone to-day. She sat n few fee
hom the Mullers, and preserved her ex
rssision of imperturbability under tn
'lLSes OF the court spectators .,
das, S y~s;stssrdsy, Looked much better sHS b e