New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-13
BUILDING UP ITS CASE.
EVIDENCE AGAINST MEYER.
THE PROSECUTION MASSES ITS FACTS TO
CORROBORATE MULLER.

sHowING-MR. BRooKE's SUCCESSFUL OBJ
JEC11oNs-MARY NEIss NOT ALLOWED
TO TELL MUCH-IDENT1TY OF THE
DEAD MAN-DR. MiNDEN
TELLS HIS STORY
THE AUTOPSY
suits II would seem as IL DR.. Meyer. alias Henry
Werner alias Hugo Schaeffer. appreciably
,aarar conviction when the Court of Oyer and
Terminer adjourned last night than he was
tventy-four hours earlier. The prosecutions
ease was much strengthened both by the char
ecter of the evidence presented and by the
marked Improvement in the way of presenting
A. which came from Mr.. Ncolrs personal par
ticipation in the trial. The District-Attorney,
like every other man with views and marked
personality, has his friends and his enemies, but
n Is as little to be denied by enemies that his
manner in the trial of causes is extremely en-
raeng as it is to be asserted by his friends
that he comprehends all human virtues. He is
on extremely clever man. He is not lazy or in
different to his work. He has an air of frank
ness. He appears to believe what he says and
he knows how to expose by a smile or gesture
or tone of voice anything that resembles
demagogy In the conduct Of an opponent
All his faculties and most of his arts were
brought into play yesterday, and the result was
much to the advantage of the States case He
saws his severest things and makes his most
telling points a prosecutor with an entire ap-
sence Of any apparent feeling on his own part
against the individual who is the object of his
censures His air is judicial. and it contributes
in a marked way to the prejudicial effect he
aims to produce.
STRENGTHENING THE PEOPLES CASE
in
corroboration Of the story of Kirfel or Muller
tbe informer. But each witness made new
no,nt. Each brought peculiar element OF
strength to the peoples case and the defend
ont,s LAWYERS In cross-exannation were unable
to inNict any damage on 1t. That is what makes
this prosecution so difficult to deal with. Mev-
ers crime, whether it was murder or only
fraud. was particularly complicated, ana at one
stage or another of its perpetration II came 10
+hs indirect attention of so many different peo-
ple that when they are all brought together
and their stories after another borne IN re-
view before the mind the conclusion OF guii'
is Irresistible. Up to this point there may DC
room for doubt as to the exact character OF
the crime. Murder in the law, must De pre-
ceded by an intention, and that Meyer IN
tended TO kill Brandt is not yet. even upon the
prosecutions case alone, positively established
put Il ia SO nearly established as to make
things look very bad for him. The photographs OF
Baum or Brandt have been one OF the chiei
weapons in creating this bad appearance ~
dozen different persons from Cncago nave
Identified those photographs good lkenesses
of a man whom they knew In chicago uiueI
the name sometimes of Brandt, sometimes VI
paum. sometimes of both Brandt and Baum, and
each of these witnesses has told some stofy
effectively connecting the man they knew as
xpith
cago. And another cloud of witnesses has come
forward in this city to prove that these same
nhotopra mis- are a good likeness OF a man WhoH
thew knew here as Baum. as the tenant OF 'ha'
fiat at No 800 East Thireenth-st, and as the
man whom they saw there in company WIN
Mrs Meyer, known to them ana then Passi"s
as Mrs Baum, and all OF these witnesses nave
told stories effectively connecting Meyer anu
Muller here in New-York with Baum. Inc
physician DIR. Minden, Identifies photograph
&c the nicture Of the man whom he attended
as q patient at that fiat under the name OF
Raum who was Ill there whom he visited daily
for twenty days; for whom he prescripeo ioi
chronic dysentery and who finally died; whose
daad bodv ne saw whose death he demonstrated
with instrumental tests and he proves also that
the body exhumed from Evergreen Cemetery
on Juy 6 was the same body that he saw deao
in the fat on March &c.
THE CORPSE IDENTIFIED
The undertaken, Mr. Kipp. makes the same
Identification He laid out the body and ne eN-
humed 1t, and he knows that the body ne purieu
Is the same body he exhumed. The proofs peihs
already so numerous, 50 circumstantiai, porhe
out in so many ways and by 50 many dlerehl
persons that Meyer and his wife demanded ana
received money on the policies taken out py
paun there remains apparently little chance
for the defence to succeed in an effort 10
show that some other body was substituted for
that of Brandt either before or after death Inc
vital question that remains, therefore, and 1t IS
narrowing down into a thin compass, is this:
1,id Paum die from poisoning and did Meyer ad-
minister the poison with murdecus intent!
Come evidence that he did die from poison, IN
support of Mullers statements, was adducedves-
terday in the report to the Coroner suppneo py
profcssor Doremus as to the contents OF the Or
rans of Bauu,'s exhumei body, and that evidence
win be elaborated to-day by the personal exami-
nation of the Professor; but there remains I'M
covered as yet except by the statements OF
Muller the all-important fact as 10 now the pol
son got thereby whose hand ana with Wha'
purpose. ~
Nv Osu,]ivan looned into view yesterday. Mr..
O'Sullivan is the gentleman VINO became suo-
denly faint some months ago as an element OF
.h aatorce of another man accused OF murder
He was found 20 pos sess a remarkable aihouht Vi
medical knowledge, that is remarkable lor
LAWYER and he explained the matter by sayih2
~. he had studied medicine before ne studleo
law. Mr. Osullivan is blond genteiinhan ginh yhen W,sn
sandy hair and little mustache, whicn w VIZ, sa
within the public eye he caresses as II ne , ss
much store by II. His hair is inclined to be curly
and q goes off on either side of his head from a
nar,ine in the middle in nice little unduiauons
H1s ..e NJ O,cuiIivan cross-exaIniDes witness
q is somehow or another impossible to resist IN.
feeling that the supremely Important noui ssn na'
come His eyeglass suggests IT, his very eiivi
- seem Indifferent suggests it. And when ne
conSronts a witness and says with his lead penci
IN his hand and with the evident ihlehtion " p -
tho answer down then and there regardless ~
tha ennsenuences TO this solar SYSTEM NOW teI