The evening world., 1893-12-08
E dkEHT CHRISTMAS NUMBER of THE SUNDAY WORLD ST

breakfasted with Brandt In Third ave-
nue. restaurant and Brandts chops were
| seasoned with antimony, according to
programme.
Then they visited secondhand stores
and bought lounge. three chairs and
| table and moved them to the fiat
A man and woman were admitted to
| the courtroom, and Muller identified
them as Frank c. Schaefiier and Mrs,
rent the fiat, and the janitress OF the
flats, respectively.
Brandt wrote slip for the lettcr-box
esf 'hd SsRE wrote the on s"'tfse0 hs sr
| Baum He wrote letters and signed
them Baum. These letteres were ad-
dressed TO the insurance companies, In
which the policies were drawn to notify
them. that Gustav Nj. A. J: Baum, had
removed from Chicago, to New York.
| ,F'rank Egedio," called Mr.. Mcintyre
and Muller identified him as the harpist
he had seen In the Chicago saloon when
Dr. Meyer gave him his instructions the
day before he left Chicago.
| Muller next related that Dr. Meyer
came to New York March 8, 1892. He
visited him at the Morton House in
obedience to summons received from
! DR.. Meyer.
The Morton House register was shown
to Muller. and he picked out the entry
II; Werner and wife. Milwaukee," and
THAT is in the handwriting of Dr.
There was a sauabble among. the law
yers on nj, the competency Of this test, H.
witness had picked over the entry him
self. Mr.. Brooke said he didn't. and
juror No. 2, John A. Grey, the Broadway
restaurateur, interposed with:
Mr. Mcintyre first put his finger on
This pleased Mr.. Brooks. and he made
Muller was sharper than all. He vol
unteered that Dr. Meyer had told him
that he had registered as Werner, from
| Milwaukee,.
:" DR.. 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
j. J. McClusky, the man who sold the
furniture to Brandt and Muller was
called in and Identified by Muller. Then
Muller said that DIR; Meyer went out
some furniture. for the fiat in Thirteenth
street. Mrs. Meyer took n hand in the
preliminary talk. She demanded a nice
piano and some nice furniture. Muller
"Dr. Meyer and went to place in
Fourteenth street and rented a plano at
81 month. l signed the contract by
the name of Joseph Baum at DIR.
This contract was put in evidence.
after that DR.. Meyer and his wife
1
the fiat in Thirteenth street." resumed
Now we must find sick man. said
DR.. Meyer one day: We went to Belle
keeper that he wanted to look for a sick
man, but he was not allowed to go in.
Turning. around, DR.. Meyer pointed
d.spensary; the very place to get a sick
man for our work for the people who
go there are very, very poor"
DR.. Meyer talked with a young man, o.
twenty: -four years. who looked as IL h,
was dying of consumption. After awhile
Dr. Meyer left him and he said; This
man ts no use to us, for he has his pa
rents
Then one went back to the fiat
Brandt and Mrs. Meyer were there. Dr.
sick man, and he feared they would
have r to gTe up the scheme. chem ,,o no.,
money had been spent on 1t.
Then Brandt said we should not give
self ne and tf them he took salts @ fief It had me-
effect. and DR.. Meyer suggested Crotor
oil. DR.. Never wrote prescription fol-
Forty-second street"
Druggist Baum was brought into court
with his prescription book, and Muller
was signed 'otto 6, Stein. pi.o,'; N. D:'" tn. he
same name that Muller used when he and
Brandt registered at the Cosmopolitan.
"Dr Meyer told me my name was tc
be Winners after he got to New York
said the witness.
Liberal doses of croton oil produced
the desired effect on Brandt, and wher
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
m nd hyv fhn Ne.Nt,, III
played by Brandt, into diagnosing his
case as one of chronic dysentery.
The scheme was working admirably
Baum" was entered as a regular pa.
tient on DR.. MIndin's books. and Brand
was on the high-road to death. DR.
Meyer was always out when DR.. Minder
DIR. Minden called twice or three times
a day. forty-eight visits altogether, and
on March 80 issued a certificate saying
that Patient Baum had died that day
Dr. Meyer made one last effort to be
true to. Brandt. He tried to get 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
the dying in earnest. for as DR.. Meyer
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
a 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:
sc. NJ. A. ]. Baum, 800 East Thirteenth
street" The message was as follows:
"Dr. Minden: l don't feel better of the
medicine There is no sign annoy me
but blood. | can't sleep at night
Shall / 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 a fake corpse that was taken
from that Thirteenth street fiat anC
buried I'm 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 DIR. Winden's book
1t was Brandt who took anthnony ant
Baum, and Brandt who was put under