St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-13
DETH BY SLOW POISONING
VIEWING A NETWORK or EVIDENCE
AROUND Dr.. MEYER.
DAMAGING TESTIMONY TAKEN.

Out Of Thousands-A Division
of the SpoiIs and the Flight of
the Conspirators-Ihe Murder
er's Accomplish a Bigamist.
New YORK. Dec. 12.-Dark indeed
seems the outlook for DR.. Heary c. F.
Meyer. Step by step Prosecutor john
+. Mcintyre is correborating the story
told by Accomplish Carl Muller. Even
/ though Lawyer Brooke has proven
Muller to be perjurer and a bigamist,
the fact remains that mau will net
confess himself murderer or a muir
derer's accomplish unless there exists
some fire beneath the curling smoke.
Prosecutor Mcintyre is slowly but
surely weaving a network of evidence
around the doctor. which, unless some
thing unforeseen transpires, will carry
| him to the electric chair.
Witnesses thus far produced corrob-
crate Muller's story of the movements
of DR.. Meyer, Mrs. Meyer, Ludwig
Brandt and Muller himself in the awful
conspiracy to detraud the insurance
companies out of thousands of dollars
III policies issued on the life of Gustav
NJ. a. Baum: conspiracy that resulted
in the death of Brandt By slow poison
| Ing, the collection of the insurance
| from the companies, division of the
spells. and the flight of the three con-
| spirators who were left.
In the Meyer murder trial today the
croSs-eXamination of DR.. ID. q. Gillette.
of the Mutual Life Insurance company.
was continued. Mr.. Brooke further
questioned him about the elimination
| of the
BODY OF BRANDT.
| He was asked about a meeting with
| Coroner Schultz concerning an inquest
to be held over Brandt's body Dr..
Gillette said he did not know that any
thing out of the regular order of legal
| proceeding had been intended in the
Brandt inquest. He thought it better
to keep the matter out of the papers at
that time, as the Pinkerton agency was
engaged in the case.
DR.. Gillette admitted that before DR..
! Meyer was arrested WINNER, or Muller,
| had furnished the insurance company
with information leading TO his arrest.
| For this the insurance company had
| given WINNER, or Muller, $500. DR..
Gillette named six witnesses whom he
had procured in Chicago, and who came
to New York at the expense of the
county. He had been authorized by
| the district attorney to make advances
Of any money necessary to bring wit
nesses to this city.
| hrC Mary MnlIar was aqllQd fIlp
stand. In the course of her testimony
she said:
Il heard Mr.. and Mrs. Meyer quarrel
| ing" That was in Toledo
Mrs. Never spoke of his having
| poisoned some gentleman in New York.
! She asked him if he had not poisoned
| some man in New York." That was a
| few months after the alleged crime was
| committed. MIR. Meyer made no reply
| to this remark of his wife" The testi-
mony developed 4 struggle for aud
against the admission of the evidence
! between Mr.. Nicol and Mr.. Brooke,
which was finally decided by Justice
! Barrett in favor of the prosecution.
Thomas r. Meyler. OF the Mutual
| Life, the next witness, Identified DR..
| Meyer as
THE MAN WHO CALLED
at his Office in April. 1892, and presented
| the ''proof of death" of Gustav NJ. A.
! Baum.
Thomas j. milford. New York man
ager of the 1Htua Life Insurance office,
1 identified Mrs. Meyer as the woman
who presented herself at his Off ice,
claiming to be the widow of Gustav Nj.
| a. Baum, and demanding the 81. 0G0 in
| Surance on his life in the Ktna.
/ Cyrus Mum, OF the Washington Life
Insurance company, with an office at 81
| Cortlandt street, supplied another link
| in the chain of evidence. Mr.. Mum
| iden fled a paper dated Feb. IA, 1892, as
all assignment by Baum Of the policy
on his life for $1,000 in the Washington
| to, his wife, Amelia Baum. The doeu-
| ment was received at his Office Feb. IS.
April 4 a woman presented herself
| as claimant OF the insurance on the life
| Baum. She was accompanied by two
men, Winners and Reuter- said MI.
| Mum. Il paid to them check for
| 8, 00O.;' =
Wright Burdge, OF the New York Life,
! followed as witness. He identified the
| policy on Baum's life and copy of the
assignment of the policy by Baum to his
| wife, received By mail at his Office.
For the twentieth time the
BLUE-EYED WOMAN
! in black was called out Of the rallied in
closure where she Sc. to the bar of the
| court to be serutinized by the witness,
and the witness said after long look /:
That is the lady; that is she who
| claimed to be Mrs. Emile Baum, the
assignee of the policy and the widow of
| Gustave NJ. A. Baum"
Zacharia HeTmanson, a collector for
the United States Industrial Insurance
company, came next to the stand. He
| used to be an editorial writer on Sean
dinavIau papers in Chicago, where he
! knew Ludwig Brandt. Hhe had seen
him in 1888 with DR.. Doe and other
| Scandinavian friends. Brandt was an
advertising agent for the Tageblatt, of
! which the witness was managing editor
atone time.
II saw Brandt cold, wintry day in
March, 1892, on Bowling Green in this
| city aud talked with him. said the
witness. This was the first proof Of
! Brandt'S presence in New York at the
| time of the occupancy of the Thir-
teenth street fiat. Then he identified
the portrait of Brandt. and was turned
! over TO Mr.. Brooke, who let him go
| without questioning.
Thomas Tierney, notary public at the
| Office of the Washington Life Insurance
company,
IDENTIFIED DR. MEYER
as a man whom he had seen at his Office.
and at the fat 800 East Thirteenth
street.
"When | saw him at the Office Mr..
! Baum and Mr.. WINNER were with him. -
he said. Again Mrs. Meyer arose and
was identified as Mrs. Baum" and
| Muller, Sinking and contemplate,
arose in his place and the witness said
/ that he was the ''Mr. Winner who ao-
companied DR.. and Mrs. Meyer.
Mrs. Mary Muller" called Prosecutor
| Mcintyre, whereat Mr.. Brooke asked
| that Muller be excluded from the room.
| This was denied and the young woman
entered from another room and took the
/ stand.
MY name is Mary Muller. 1 have
been married. was Mary Neiss. l
| first knew Carl Muller in May. 1892.
when L was employed as a domestic by
Dr.. and Mrs. Meyer at Toledo. We
moved to South Bend, Ind. in October.