New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-13
4 STORY ABOUT MRS. MEYER.
II Is SAID SIZE WILL iLRN SIAlE'S
EVIDENCE.

ups wop,N FELLOW PRISONER. DECLARES
THAT THE WOMAN CONFESSED TO HER
DOUBT ABOUT THE TALE
rho s,.r,l,ro announcement that Mrs. Henry
g. = Mover has decided to testify against her
| husband ~ gave herself is made by Mrs. Hiah
Woram who was a fellow-prisoner with her III
the Tombs DR. Meyer and his wite are uhuei
Indictment for murder in the first degree, charged
with poisoning Gustav H. VI. Joseph Baum aiias
Ludwig Brandt to get the insurance on MS me
The Movers were arrested i'm Detroit ana Drought
to the Tombs here. The wife had recently gwen
| birth IN a child which died while she was IN
nrison and the woman weak and despondeht.
She is young and evidently of some education anu
refinement Mrs. Woram was WIN h'r "'"'" VI
the time I'm the Tombs. Mrs. Noram WHOSE ""9
band is a policeman. was charged WIN a'ul"s III
, criminal assault on her own daughter Josephine.
a girl of fifteen. Twice the mother was trled ana
,,,ca the iury disagreed. on Wednesday on the
recommendation of the Disrict-Attorney' she was
discharged from custody.
Nr, Worou was seen yesterday in the Office or
her counsel Ambrose II. Purdy. in 'entre-st She
told with many details the story whch she Sa'i
her fellow-prisoner had related to her. SAID MIS-
Woram:
..vrs Mover and got very we'll acquainted. ana
h ,o,d mo that her counsel DIR. O'Sullivan. had
recentlv advised her to turn states evidence. Hh'
said that August WINNER twho Is IN '"stopy ~ Il
Witness against the Meyers had given Ut Meyer
81 Nd, for his recipe for the slow poison uS' III
r,,,ing naum. Mrs Meyer told mo that Dr. O'sulli-
van had hypnotzed her and had mao" h'f no an
kinds OF foolish things. such a. ""''''s Nv ~
i'm his hat and on.
Mrs Meyer declared that Baum was SIGN "ne'
ne came TO her husbands house ana meyer '''
given him poison. The Distrct-Attorney hau aSNe'
her TO turn states evidence. ana the i"s"i
pnople had asked her TO turn STATE eN'e"N'
Mrs Never asked me for poison with whlch 10
kin herself She said that she would not De ha'seu
Tor any man Her husband had told her that She
was inst as guilty as he DR.. Meyer had lett MS
second wife for her. and seemed to love "'' WY
much Mrs Meyer said. Two Of her lawyers III
O'SuIIivan and l.. :. Chanler had gone l" - i''
Chicago and Detroit FOR witnesses
The statements are so disconnected as 10 De az
r,os, bvst.rical but It Is said at the TonpS tha'
Nrs Never il i'm a condition bordering on III
sanity Her long Imprisonment. her loneliness '"'
death OF her child and the prospect pe'o'' Nv, AZ
certainly enough to affect the reason OF " u'"'",'
woman The value OF III" alleged co'''rH4'o" "
N. trial would be problematical To one Reporter
Mrs Never denied having made coniessioh' 10
others She said she would hold her peace "'''
she SAW Or O'Sullivan again.
Mrs Never has been exceedingly despon"'"' 'o'
the last week and she has eNpresseh I'a' W."
something preiudcial to her was gohs o" III II"
cago II was said that detectives Ma" o'e" '''
there. TO follow clews given in Mrs. meyer con"
fosslon District Attorney Nicoll ana IN" assiS,d.
whom, he assigned TO the case. Mr.. McihN'e ia"
,.i,ber heard of any confession until told OF MrS
Woram's story by the reporters
u 10 known that Or O'Suyan IS much inter-
ss,.d I'm hypnotism and he has ihought 'n"'
Airs Never was placed under hypnotic influence
in Detroit after her child was born
Mrs Woram's character. II the allegations VI
the prosecution TO be- believed Is eN'rr"'ls'
bad She would have motive IN a'""s INV "''
trict- Attorney to convict the Meyers, Tor h-htH
po,,i., who was indicted with her for the as
sault on her daughter. is still In prison hls re-
ease rnisht be secured. there Is no CONCLUSIVE
evidence against him. by doing some slgnal ser
vice 10 the District Attorney oiiice-at least tls
is probably the wonan's belief. .c,
,.b.rl.s + BROOKE 81 the nrm OF Brooke - SUI
livan A Brooke said he had heard nothing ABOUT
any confession OF Mrs. Meyer