The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-12-08
XT CHRISTMAS NUMBER Of THE SUNDAY WORLD s6NNBB4

breakfasted with Brandt In a Third ave-
nuc restaurant. and Brandt's chops were
seasoned with anthony, according to
programme.
Then they visited secondhand stores
and bought a lounge, three chairs and
table and moved them to the fiat.
A man and woman were admitted to
them us Frank G. schneiiier and Mrs.
Leach, the agent from, whom Brandt
rent the fat, and the janitress OF the
mats respectively.
Brandt wrote a slip for the letter-boS
under, the, bell-pull, al the entrance OF
.hs building He wrote on the slip
ham Bau me T5ss letters er.s and %er ssrsa
dressed 10 the insurance companies, In
which the policies were drawn to notify
them, that Gustav NJ. A. J: Baum, had
Frank Esedio,' esailed Mr.. Mcintyre
hard-featured man stepped forward,
and Muller Identified him as the harpist
DR.. Meyer gave him his Instructions the
day before he left Chicago
Muller next related that pr; oo Meyer
Visited him INV at 'p ths Morton o. HOUSE t in
obedience to summons received from
DIR. Meyer.
The Morton House register was shown
~; Werner and wife. Milwaukee," and
THAT is in tie handwriting of DIR.
There was a squabble among, the law
yers on the competency of this testl-
mony. District Attorney Nicoll said the
self. Mr.. Brooke said he didn't. and
Juror No 2, John A. ORGY, the Broadway
iestaurateur, interposed with:
the mi ni,c Mcintyre first put his finger on
This pleased Mr.. Brooks, and he made
Muller was sharper than all. He vol
unteered. that Or. Meyer had told him
that he had registered as Werner. from
Milwaukee.
-" pr. Meyer told me that he didn't like
| the Morton House. because there was no
back door to get out of In case Of neces-
sity." said Muller.
4 McG y R,a .se man yhS sold the
called in and Identified by Muller. Then
Muller said that Dr. Meyer went out
from the Morton House and bought
some furniture for the fiat In Thirteenth
| street Mrs. Meyer took hand In the
preliminary talk, She demanded a nice
plano and some nice furniture. Muller
continued:
Fourteenth street and rented a plano at
= a month. signed the contract by
TIE name Of Joseph Baum at Dr.
This contract was put in evidence.
After that DR.; Meyer and his wife
took up their residence with Brandt at
the nat In Thirteenth street." resumed
Now we must find a sick man. said
DIR. Meyer one day. We went>to Belle
yue Hospital. DR.. Meyer told The gate.
man. but he Was not allowed to 60 in.
Turning around, DIR. Meyer pointed
across the street and said: There IL q
ses s ns xs!y s's Is. 2 p ss ,'ss
go there are very. very poor"
SO we went to this dispensary. and
twenty -four years. who looked as IL h
was dying OF consumption. After awhile
DR.. Meyer left him and he said; This
man Is no use to us, for he has his pa
''Then one went back to the fiat.
brandt and Mrs Meyer were there. Or.
have to give lip the scheme.
, cried She said they must not Sys
Then Brandt said We should not give
up the scheme: that he'd be sick him
effect, and DR.. Meyer suggested Croton
eroton OF and purchased it himself at
RarWs drug store strs. Seventh avenue near
Druggist Baum was brought into court
with his prescription book, and Muller
ssaed Pr o Msy e. ss ars'fMrptSn h
same name that Muller used when he and
Brandt registered at the Cosmopolitan.
"Dr: Meyer told me my name was to
be WINNERS after he got to New York,
Liberal doses of croton oil produced
the desired effect on Brandt and when
called in on March 6. he was easily de-
ceived by the woman with the Laughing
blue eyes-who posed as the wife OF the
played nay by B a inae aiagnosns q III.
case as one Of chronic dysentery.
The scheme was working admirably.
.,Sa, vas entered as regular pa,
was on the high-road to death. DR.
Meyer was always out when DR.. Minden
DR.. Minden called twice or three times
day. forty-eight visits altogether. and
on March 80 issued certificate saying
that Patient Baum had died that day
Dr.. Meyer made one last effort to be
true to. Brandt. He tried to get a corpse
from the morgue pretending to identify
too much red tape from the Coroner
Office, the Morgue- Keepers books and
the Police Department The doctor gave
It up; and the eo.conspirator had 70 do
said, too much money had been spent
to let the scheme fail at that late day.
So the doses OF antimony were in.
tient at the vitality, OF Brandt. he added
little arsenic sulphate.
Witness Muller identified a message
written by Brandt to DR.. Minden on the
back of an address card. The address
card read:
street" The message was MS follows:
DIR. Minden: / don't feel better OF the
medicine. There is no sign annoy me
but blood. 7 can't sleep at night
Shall I use the powder yet. or will you
give me some other medicine?"
JOSEPH BAUM.
To two or three questioning Jurors
and Justice Barrett. Muller said that
Brandt was an educated man and had
been a newspaper reporter. This note
was written early In the fake illness OF
Brandt.
1t was fake corpse that was taken
from that Thirteenth street nat and
buried In the Evergreens Cemetery. II
was Brandt who got insured as Baum
Brandt who married Mrs. Mary Meyer
and rechristened her Mrs. Amelia Baum
Brandt who took Croton oil and was
sick. as Baum, In DR.. Winden's book
It was Brandt who took anthony and
arsenic. and died under the name OF