The evening world., 1893-12-07
LAST EDITION
One JUROR LACKING.
Rumors that Mrs.. Meyer Has
Confessed Officially Denied.
Muller Expected to Be the First
Witness Against the Doctor.
Not tho Alleged Fo'soner's Only
Trial for Murder.

The presence of Mrs. DR.. Meyer every
day in the court of oyer and Terminer,
where her husband Is on trial for pois-
oning, gave rise to a revival of the story
that the woman with the laughing blue
eyes had confessed, after all, and would
be put on the witness stand to tell the
story of how her husband, with Carl
Muller, alias WINNERS, and herself. had
conspired with Gustave NJ. "A. j. Baum
to defraud the insurance companies out
of the heavy insurance on Baum's life;
how they administered arsenic and
anthony to Baum to give him
the appearance Of a very sick
man for the purpose of fooling a
reputable physician, and how the poison
did its work too well, killing the FAKE
patient March 80, 1892.
The rumor brought an immense crowd
20 the white COURTHOUSE, for It was
anticipated that the two vacant seats
in the jury box would be speedily filled,
and the trial actually begin to-day.
But John F. Mcintyre, the able and
this morning. He said Mrs. Meyer was
brought down from her cell in the
Tombs SO that the witnesses might
Other things observed in court belied
the story, too. Dr.. Meyer and his wife
and alleged accomplish exchanged many
signals across the COURTROOM, the doe
tor manipulating his great, bullying. gilt
tering, gray-blue eyes in a remarkable
fashion in signalling to the blue-e EYER
with him 80 completely.
Carl Muller, the alleged accompllee of
and WHO fell in love with Mary ,Neiss,
the servant girl who, 1t is alleged, was
being poisoned to death in Toledo, and ran
Mi. M~eIatyre's schedule as the first wit
ness. to be followed by the rosy-cheeked,
b~ig-eyed, frizzy-haired young woman
herself.
A part of the proof offered by Prose
under the names OF William Reuter-,
err has been twice tried for murder in
Chicago, the first time on a charge OF
poisoning his wife, and the second on a
with the purpose OF securing the insur-
ance on the life of the victim; once In
South Bend, on a charge of forgery,
surance. He was acquitted on the MUIR
der trials, but. 1t is alleged, was con-
victed and imprisoned on the other
Muller and his wife were this morning
brought down by Jack Galleghar from
the House of Detention, where they have
pretty Mary violated the confidence re-
posed in her by the District;Attorney, and
ran away from the Brooklyn boarding
p pense Of T"t the county of New York. she
was caught in Rochester and brought
back and placed where she could not
'I No "H one Gould blame Carl Muller for
repenting of his share in the conspiracy
to poison the little creature to death,
save her life for himself. Mary Neiss
Muller, alias Winners, Is a most In
teresting young woman. She looks like
down Broadway during the Summer
months, only she wears u long velvet
cloak trimmed with fur. Her hat Is a
dainty thing trimmed with FUR and nay y,
around her head fluffy soubrette crimp
are clustered, and behind them Is a
s bunch Of the s erinkly h brown , n, h "a r;b con
The man who left off poisoning, her
TO marry her looks like a young physi,
clan or lawyer. with his full beard OF
in court directly behind the pallid-faced
doctor, whom they expect to send to
the electrical chair.
The woman who so strangely resem'
hies DR.. Meyer, who says she Is Mrs
Nlauger, and who is. by a remarkable
Coincidence. the person engaged by Dr
eishteen-months sold baby boy, came tt
court alone to-day. She sat a few fee
from the Mullers, and preserved her ex
pres sion of imperturbability under th'
gaze of the court spectators. -,
Dr. Meyer. who was plainly a sick
man yesterday, looked much better to
NY u he uTuHllIltu lisbItsSiN ~ "
big, bony, ~yellow-white hand on thu
Table as he an "Evenint
World" reporter:
= nave not been we'll since ! arrived
at New York, but ! think | am as wei
as usual"
His furtlve eyes, fitting from place t.
pace IN the courtroom, never rest upol
To- be obllvous to their presence. but wheI
theS, go on the stand they vii, surely
lay bare the long story, the horrible tall
OF me score nf nppnlp in as MANY Glitter
whose lives. the prosecution claims, DR.
Meyer has attempted during the fourteen
1879.
There were only two Jurors lacking
when court opened this morning, ter
having been found In three days. IN
zen in the jury-boN at the opening OF tn
udy's session We're:
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Washinston street; residence, 24s West Thirteenth
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7'sCcker street; residence. 81 barrow street.
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sit,et residence. 5Sl East one Hundred an
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w., residence, $40 West One Hundred an
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GnMARD BoRNHoErT; retired plano manu-
"sVrrr; residence, 1853 Park avenue.
deputy Sheriff Murray took Mrs
InrE'f TO court late, and again she ha'
All nj met by a woman In Centre stree
SH NV aocompanied to court; This womal
~ she refused TO disclose her Identity
e W were Joined In the prisoners