The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-18
PROFESSIONAL POISOyER.
n vvHs Record As q Murderer
For Insurance Money.

-.-,f5ved Slow Poison that Pro-
- symptoms Similar TO Those Of
non Diseases His Wife Used as
meow to Catch Victims Eight
v-r54rs Laid at the Doctors Door.
NJ. allowing account of the crimes Of
..-,r.r Never, condensed from the
,r Work World is fuller than that
,5.r yl, published in the dispatches of
y iii. Nuu>lNG NEWS.
Condensed from the New York World
r.r.e cities Chicago, Toledo and New
v,r.-.aim Henry c. f. Meyer on the
.,,,s of poisoning New York will get
s~ If she fails to convict him, then the
\ -.rsrrfti.s will have their inning. He is
r,t rscly to escape.
n The story of his life, as it untangles it
"A .lfort of the mesh of more or less con
s,5i.f6ry dispatches from all parts of
Fl .rs country, is an amazing and frightful
lord of crime, One may have been cal
isosgd To- something like indifference by
.Ts numerous poisoning cases of recent
iata and vet one must have a shudder
q T't, f,r criminal who throws Buchanan
and Harris mo the shade, and finds no
11r,Iel save in the black past of the Bor-
5ias and the Brinvilliers.
There are indications that he poisoned
Of least five people: His first wife, his
oyr Child. Henry Gildeman of Chicago,
4 TriUig Brandt in New York, and an al
a iarsd wife in Toledo.
IN is believed that he had begun to
4 ro,san. with the view of killing; His sec
and Wife. Gildcman's widow, in Chicago;
4 1lar,. Nei,s. a servant at South Bend
Ind anoId man in Chicago.
"A DR. Henry c. F. Meyer is a native of
NIinden. Prussia. His age is about 40
Wben he came to this country is not
a definitely settled, but began practice as a
r nbysirian i'm Chicago in 1873. He married,
and soon afterwards his first wife died
rnder circumstances which look suspi-
+ cious enough in the light of subsequent
events. but which attracted no unfavor-
"a able comment at the time. An insurance
On her life was promptly paid.
81 Among the yOnng doctors patients was
4 well-to-do grocer, Henry .Gildeman,
N wb8 had a store in North Sedgwick
# straet Gildeman died Suddenly in 1883.
"A leaving some property, an insurance on
\ his life and a buXOm widow. BY marry
Mmg the widow shortly afterwards the
doctor acquired both the property and
Reinsurance money Not long after his
h marriage his first wife's son was found
dead in the bath tub. AS he had been in
q excellent health up to his sudden taking
4 of. the matter created much talk The
#police now deemed it time to interfere.
y DR. Meyer was arrested, but as no tangi-
be evidence could be found against him
#hewas discharged. The insurance mon
ey was paid over and the nine days Won
der became a very tame thing in d fort
blight
Then the wife found herself suffering
#fr0m a slow complaint which threatened
tler life Believing that she was being
4 poisoned She left her home and her nus
& baud and procured a divorce. She is
still alive, but her constitution is shatter-
ed and to this day she believes that her
life was attempted.
About the year 1888 he met and married
& lis present wife Her maiden name was
#GresSeu She was the daughter of a
#thnfty, elderly German of the north side,
#wh0 had accumulated considerable pro
liberty. 1t was soon discovered that the
Mold gentlemau's name had been forged to
\ "a heavy life insurance in the Germania
\ Life Insurance Company. He was slowly
tdying but when removed from Meyers
#ChaIge recovered his health A warrant
4 Was issued against DIR. Meyer He fed
the city, but was arrested in Denver.
2where he went under the name of Dennis
Oswald was taken back to Chicago. tried
sand acquitted At that time he became
KNOWN among Germans in Chicago as
q Gltt Meyer which means, ''POlson
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