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


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and tn? inten. TO take life for the pur-
pose d. defraudins the insurance COM
peMi'Wiy6hat conversation did you have with
MEYERS SCHEME TO MAKE THOU
SANDS.
He asked me what. ! was in Jail for
told h nnnev In sal Sa, ,he Ire W sa,d n 6e
Wsno Uld put me on a scheme. by which l
c %SId make thousands. said Muller.
U'He said the scheme was IN was no
ence companies out OF thousands.
~ was taken TO Joliet Prison June 30,
100 and served ten months and nine
Fp sic age " wtnt to live at state and
seventeenth streets. - lived there one
week with William Marshall. who was
Il saw DR.. Meyer the third day at S3i
2 1871. DR.. Meyer was practising medi-
s !pr II. Meyer, He was living there
with his wlfe-that woman"
Mrs. Meyer stood up on command of
Mr. Me- Mcintyre tyr and smiled while Muller
"Dr, Meyer agHed me did want to go
into that scheme; ! told him no; l
didn't want to get into any more trouble.
Prison and how did he look told him
Baum looked bad. Baum gave the name
peter g: Barker, at the prison.
R 9e Mf frison to see T pse w't @
He said he lad been writing letters to
Barker in prison had fr t these l let,
l." asked him for s.. and he gave it to
1T another time DR.. Meyer asked mo
II ! knew Ludwig Brandt. \ man came
in he back way and looked at him
and remembered, and / said: Yes
know Ludwig Brandt: 1 knew him in
Cook County JAIL
Or. Meyer, and was living at 100 Twelfth
street, Chicago, then"
Did you meet a girl in Lincoln Park?'
' "Yes. j met Lena Kaufman in Lincoln
Park. m July 1891.
BAUM TO BE lMPERSONATED.
81 saw DR.. Meyer again with Brandt
in July. Never said Baum was out of
Joliet. and Brant:t read out Of paper
Tint Baum was crested in Cincinnati.
my Ss sSme time n A Street he f Ha saG
that ne had lie, US from Baum in Gin
S gns Very s"a Sick Kat REn eysr SAID sa9 he
E Es15sa ant ass is Ire insSTsd He II
said ns bs GnE about TO G RaSm H. to wen nd
and when.'.:' got back he said he had
TO go to G.. si..any to see Baum's family
and find out all about him.
Fall. He said he had been to Germany
He It'd mesle. had to pawn his watch ir
New York to 1T back to Chicago. He
asked me tn represent Baum to get In
sured. He tolt me a man by the nam,s
of Steffen had come from Germany witt
him, and was in company Will Din TO dC
scremes to cheat the insurance comna
~
II next saw DR.. Meyer at Pete
Marriotty's. III Fourth avenue, Chicago
in December, 1891. There o was ~ hdarp pc,
Baum BAUM was arrested again IN New Mex
leo under the name of Silverburg,
He is out of the way, SAID pr iS
scheme scheme I have spent all my money get
ting Brandt insured under the name o
Baum. Brandt is to play off sick; $,
that folks around think he Is safe o,r Th fe
Baum, and get the insurance
Meyer said he had insured Brandt as
Baum in the Montreal 8lns Westminster 0G,
e MsM esk fo ans $500 altogether He sale
sick as Baum. and pretend to die al
HE said he could find q sick man, I
consumptive man who could not liv
long, put him ina fiat. call him Baum
and when he ,r was dead bury him. ant
81 told him I liked that scheme.
was best. He. sad he wanted to go t
New York to do that business iiIn,s 80 % NH
waukee. as that would be cheaper. Tha
was in January, 1882.
BRANDT WAS TO BE POISONED.
II saw Meyer again In February, II
Chicago. He told me that his wife ha
as Baum, and that she was going t
New York to live under the name o
amelia Baum so as to be ready I
claim the insurance money: A.
"On Feb. % | met DR.. Meyer at tn
saloon 157 Randolph street. Chicago. at
o'clock in the afternoon Meyer said h
wanted to send me TO- New York wit
Brandt; that We should rent fiat, an
Then he showed a package of ant
mony and another Of morphine. ! aske
that. "
"He said Brandt was to be made sicl
Brandt's food to make Brandt sick an
vomit He told me that II Branc
wouldn't take 1t willingly; he was to b
made to take T. He told me e.; to- put
little sugar with 1t, as antlmony wa
II took the anthony and he gave n
the morphine. too. Then we went to
.cket broker and Ell r1r' ro Mfye FOR New Yor
Tor s82
by agreement we met at the. Po
street depot next day at l o'cloc
Brandt and Dr. Meyers wife were Their
Or. Never gave me $40 In cash and to
me 70 take Brandt to New York and
as he wanted me to-"
Every eve turned upon the blue-eyt
Mrs. Meyer at this. She was not SIM
Ing. She was leaning forward In n
chair and listening intently
The witness told this story in the sar
tone that he might relate the story
III" most ordinary occurrence.
Or. Meyer still took notes with perfe
coolness, seldom raising his big, furti
hlue-gray eyes from the paper, al
evlnCing no emotion of any KIND.
Muller said he came to New York wi
| Brandt, but was not allowed to I
whether he gave antlmony TO Brahnt
the journey or not. They stopped at I
COSMOPOLITAN Hotel In Chambers sire
arriving Feb. 26, as the register SNOW
Next day we went to look for, n III
We walked through the streets looki
for to rent signs and looking at fla
We wanted a nice fiat. We stopped
800 East Thirteenth street. We saw
agent and rented IL fiat"
10 be sure nice fiat was indesper
Eab.e to the successful operation OF I
blood -curdling scheme 10 murder and {
fraud!
I'VE hired the fiat for $50 a mont
silent at 43 East Twelfth street In p
vate room which / hired
BEGAN THE POISONING.
At II o'clock next morning Null
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