New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-24
FRIENDLESS AND ALONE.
NO ONE WANTS TO DEFEND HIN
ALL THE POISONER'S ILLGOT GAINS ARE
SCATTERED TO THE WINDS.
DIR. MEYERS DAILY LIFE IN THE ToMBS-AB'
sOLUTELY UNCOMMUNICATIvE-PREP
TIoNs FOR THE TRIAL-wIMMERS

DIR. MEYERS DAILY LIFE IN THE ToMBS-AD-
sOLUTELY UNCOMMUNICATIvE-PREP
TIoNs FOR THE TRIAL-wIMMERs
WILL BE 4 VALUABLE WITNESS.
Dr. Henry c. +. Meyer. locked in his TombS
cell. with the network Of evidence that may
bring him to the electric chair closing in upon
him day by day, still stands alone and friend
less. lie has no counsel. and, far can be
learned, his chances OF securing anything like
an adequate defence are still doubtful. When
the doctor was first brought TO Nsw-York flock
of lawyers, all more less prominent in the
criminal practice of the city. and all more or
less hungry for the fat fee and the lurid repu-
tation of the General Sessions, swOoped down
ucon the Gagged creature with offers OF help.
But, with unanimiry sudden and startling, they
all drew back First. Howe & IIummel were
named as his counsel: then Brooke & Brooke,
Friend & House. and others designated I'm.
til at last conjecture came TO A. G. Boyer, OF
Oakley Hall, Bowras Il Boyer. But still, somc-
how. Dr. Meyer remains without counsel
The truth is that the doctor has no money.
The Nemesis which follows the doors Of evil has
not spared him. There is an DID, homely proverb
which saws that " Ill gotten gains bode no good
This adage will apply with peculiar force to DIR.
Never. Out of the many thousand dollars which
he is said to have reaped by murder and fraud not
one cent remains. He is to-day poorer than the
poorest laborer who dug and delved for the
harest necessares of life Thus it seems as II ne
could get no counsel and it is more than PROB
able that the State will have to pay the expenses
| of his defence.
| As already announced, District-Attorney De-
| Iancey Nicoll has put the whole case for the
| prosecution into the hands of John +. Mcintyre,
one of his ablest assistants. Mr.. Mcintyre devoted
the whole of his Sunday leisure TO study OF the
case and it is likely that he will sleep little un-
til Dr. Meyer is brought TO the bar. Taking INTO
consideration the vast array Of testimony Yet to
be produced, sifted and put into something ike
conference, it is scarcely probable that the case
can be reached before December. 1t was reported
Yesterday that Detective-Sergeants Won Gerichten
and Trainer had started for Detroit to bring back
| Mrs Meyer who within a few days Will Da
able to travel East. This report, however, In
| the absence of the officials from Police Headquar'
| ters could not he verified.
| Day by day insurance companies all over tho
| West and East are coming forward with fresh
| evidence Of fraud and murder against DIR. Meyer
| and his accomplces. Just how much OF this evil
dence is valuable and how much of il is WORTH
less cannot yet be known. Superintendent Gll-
| lette. Detective Julian and the officials OF the
| Mutual Life Insurance Company engaged IN tho
| investigation refuse to say one word on the
| subject 1t is, however, certain that three new
crimes. added to the half-dozen already charged
against Meyer. have been unearthed and, in
| case of necessity, may be used as evidence
against him.
| Winners. the fourth man in the alleged CON-
| spjracy of robbery aud murder. who lived with
| DR. and Mrs Meyer and with Baum IN tho
| apartment-house at No. 800 East Thirteenth-st,
| and who saw Baum die, chafes at his imprlson-
| ment in the House of Detention and longs Tor
sight of his wife Mary. who. too. is in this city
waiting to give her testimony against the doctor.
Wimmers's rescue of this girl from death at the
hands of the doctor is the one bright spot in his
| career Winners. an ex-convct. worked with
the Meyers in their attack on tine life OF laum'
| and then fed with them to Toledo Mary Neiss'
as she was known then. became domestic ser-
want for the Meyers, with the usual result. In
other words. she first made party TO mo
fraud upon Detroit insurance company. and then
| the three others began to,poson her. But VIM
mers fell in love with the girl, and the two fed
10 Chicago. Winners will he valuable witness
for the State. inasmuch as he supplies the only
evidence hitherto wanting. namely, the possession
| of poison by Dr. Meyer and the administration of
| il 10 Baum Winners knows. also. for an abso-
lutte certainty. whether or not the man who died
| in Thirteenth-st was Baum. and whether the man
in the Tombs is or is not DR.. Meyer.
| In conversation with several friends before
| leaving Detroit Winners said that he. like
| Baum WAS deceived By Meyer. ile believed
| that Meyer had intended To reduce Baum to
| condition SO nearly approaching death that the
| Institution of bogus corpse would he compara-
| lively easy Only when Baum was dead did he
realize the truth. Evidently it had never oc-
| cured to him that iaum's marriage to Mrs.
| Never rendered his removal necessary.
| The note. identified a. being in Meyers hand
writing and row in possession of Mr.. Nicoll,
| i'm which Meyer instructed his wife TO commit
| suicide plainly shows the design which Meyer
| NAV have had i'm view from the outset. This was
| to remove Mrs. Meyer whenever il sauld suit
| his convenience His arrest, however has saved
| her from possible death ar his hands and has
| prolonged her life until the law shall take its
course.
| Meyer, as usual. refused 10 talk to newspaper
mer for whom liz loudly Processes an indomltable
hatred His imprisonment apparently affects him
| but little. lie eats and sleeps with the placid
contentment of AN animal. DR.. OSullivan: as
.ociated with Charles w Brooke. thinks, how
ever. that DR.. Meyer will make an ideal witness
| lie will say neither one word too much nor 100
| little: he will know exactly what - do when
driven INTO a corner by the cr0ss-eNamlnaton, ana
can, by 10 possibility, be excited or confused.