The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-12-08

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table and moved them to the fiat
A man and woman We're admitted TO
the courtroom. and Muller Identified |
fhem as Frank C. schaeiiier and Mrs.
Leach, the agent from whom Brandt |
rented the fiat and the lanitrcss OF the |,
Hats respectively.
,b Brand It, wrote roi slip for the ietter.box
the building lie wrote on the slip
,,Raum:' He wrote letters and signed
them Baum; These letteres were ad-
dressed 10 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,
F5arS tGseao called Mr. MGInyrG
and Muller identified him as the harpist
he had seen in the Chicago saloon when
pr. Meyer gave him his instructions the
day before he left Chicago.
came to. New York March 6. ls92. He
visited him at the Morton House In
The Morton House rcsister was shown
to Muller, and he picked out the entry
H Werner and wife. Milwaukee, and
That is in tire handwriting of Dr.
There was a souabble among the law
yers on the. competency of this testi-
mony. Dist.ict-Attorney Nicoll said the
witness had picked out the entry him,
self. Mr.. Brooke said he didn't, and
/ "
iestaurateur. interposed with:
MIR. Mcintyre first put his finger on
! the place.
| This pleased Mr.. Brooke, and he made
Muller was sharper than all. He vol
unteorrd that Or. Meyer had told him
Milwaukee
81 DR.. Meyer told me that he didn't like
the Morton House. because there was no
lack door to get out of In case of neCes
,ity," said Muller.
HUNT FOR ANOTHER VICTIM.
j. }. McClusky, the man who sold the
furniture to Brandt and Muller was
called in and identified by Muller. Then
from from the ae' Morton S House e' and bought
some furniture for the fat In Thirteenth
street. Mrs. Meyer took hand in the
preliminn ~ talk. She demanded a nice
piano and some nice furniture. Muller
Continued:
DR. Meyer and ! went to place in
Fourteenth street and rented piano plan, at at
the name of Joseph Baum at DIR.
Meyers orders"
This contract was put In evidence.
took IN their residence with Brandt at
the fat in Thirteenth street." resumed
the witness.
DR.. Meyer one day: We went to Belle
vue Hospital. DR.. Meyer told the gate
keeper that he wanted olook for sick
Turning around. Dr. Meyer pointed
across the street and said: There is g
dispensary: the very place to get sick
/; man no, for our , work; for the people who
:" So we went to this dspensary, ant
: T.. Meyer talked with a young man, o
: twenty-four years, who looked as If n
,, was dying Of consumption, After awhil,
} JG Meyer left him and he said: 'Thi!
IN is no use to us, for he has his par
ents."
r !" Then we went back to the fiat
!, Brandt and Mrs Meyer were there. DR.
T Meyer told them that he couldn't get &
sick man, and he feared they would
Mrs. Meyer was lying on, the bed
: She cried. She said they must not Civ.
up the, scheme. She said too muci
: money had been spent on it,
Q no the scneme; that he'd be sick him
|, self. end tnen he took salts. 1t had NJ
effect, and DR.. Meyer suggested crotor
crlton oil and purchased it himself a
Bal ms drug, store. Seventh avenue. nea
Forty second street"
] Druggist Baum was brought into cour
with his prescription book. and Mule
identified Dr.; Meyers prescription; J
same S nsme that Muller used When he am
e Brandt registered at the Cosmopolitan.
\ DIR: Meyer told me my name was. t
u be Winners after he got to New York,
q. said the witness.
CROlON Oil FOX BRANDT.
Liberal doses of croton oil produce
I DIR. Mnden, of st. Marks place: wa
called in on March he was easily. de
ceived by the woman with the laughinn
n blue eyes-who posed as the wife of tn
4 sick man-and by the symptoms dis
q played by Brandt, into diagnosing hi
q case as one of chronic dysentery..
y The scheme was working ably
n Baum was entered as regular pa
tient on DR.. Mindens books, and Brand
o was On the high-road to death: d
/ Meyer was always out when DIR. Minde
e DR.. Minden called twice or three time
4 a day, forty-eight visits altogether, an
~ on March 30 issued a certificate sayin
'e that Patient Baum had died that da
l. of chronic dysentcry.
4 DR.. Meyer made one last effort to b
d true to. Brandt. He tried to get a corps
II dead relative there. But there wa
too much red tape from the, Coroner
n office, the Acknowledgements books an
A. 1t up. and the co-conspirator had to d
~ the dying in earnest. for, as DIR. Meye
e said. too much money had been sper
&c to let the scheme fail at that late day.
MORE POISON GIVEN.
'e So the doses of anthony We're il
% creased. and when DR.. Never got impi
!, tent at the vitality of Brandt, he adde
little arsenic sulphatc,
IL, Witness Muller identified messag
~ ~ back of an address card. The addres
n card read
AZ street" The message was as follows:
~ "Dr Minden: | don't feel better of Il
~ medicine. There is no sign to WORRY n
IL hut blood. can't sleep at nigh
er Shall use the powder yet, or will yc
give me some other medicine"
ne JOSEPH BAUM"
of To two or three questioning .juro
and Justice Barrett. Muller said tn;
ct Brandt was an educated man and ha
We been newspaper reporter. This no
nd was written early in the fake illness
Brandt.
ell from that Thirteenth street fiat al
on buried In the Evergreen Cemetery.
he was Brandt who got insured as lIaur
ct, Brandt who married Mrs. Mary Mey
VS.. and rechristened her Mrs. Amelia l3auT
at Brandt who took Croton oil and w
me- sick. az Baum. in Or. Minden's boo
Is II was Brandt who took antimony al
nt arsenic, and died under the name
he BAUM, and Brandt who was put und
the sods of Evergreen Cemetery
as Baum ,.., ,,,
le- the officers and the unfortunate CROW
AT the entrance to the courtroom wh'
tn, Muller continued his story after recess
| He told that about March y or 70
ri noticed many small bottles of medici
in the Thirteenth street nat lie ask
DR. Never what II was.
-, 'Hc said II was 'brechwelnsteln. sa
Ter Muller, which is German for "antimony
hot ne