The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-08
DIR. MEYERS TRIAL.
One Of His Accomplices Gives Very
Damaging Testimony.

NEW YORK. Dec. s. 1S93.-Ths taxing
of testimony in the case of DR.. Henry C.
f. Meyer, charged with the murder of
Ludwig Brandt by poison. was begun
this morning 10 the Court of Oyer and
Terminer
Carl Muller was the first witness called
by the prosecution. Muller said that mis-
right name was Carl Kirfel. He was
sent to Joliet Prison for one year. In The
prison he met DIR. Meyer. the defendant:
Ludwig Brandt and Gustav Heinrich
Marie Joseph Baum. He also saw Mrs.
Meyer wheu she came to see her husband.
Meyer told the witness that he had
scheme for making money in large
sums by defrauding insurance com>
panies. After he came out of Jail
on the I'd OF June, 1891, the
ter street, Chicago. where Meyer was
practicing medicine. He also saw Mrs.
Meyer there.
Meyer asked him If he was ready to go
into the scheme to defraud insurance
companies, and the witness told Mover
that he was NOT. He did not want to get
into prison again. Meyer told him he had
been to see G ustav Heinrich Marie Joseph
Baum Ia Joliet Prison. His wife had
gone with him. Ip prison, Baum went
under the name of Parker. Meyer said
that Baum looked sick.
Muller further testified that he had
met girl named Lena Kaufman In
Lincoln Park, Chicago. just what con-
necLiou Lena Kaufman has with the cass
may come out later.
The witness continuing said that
Meyer told him that Baum was arrested
again in Cincinnati. and that he was very
sick. He (Meyerl wanted TO get some one
TO impersonate Baum and TO get his life
insured. Thsu when Baum died they
would get fhe insurance money. Meyer
went to see Baum. aud later on ne .wenG
to Germany TO tind out ABOUT Baum's
history.
When Meyer returned he wanted the
witness have mis- life Insured ln Baum's
name. but this the witness refused 60 do.
For some time af er Meyer rolo hin
that he mad had Braadts lifa inSured.
That the scheme was to have Mrs. Meyer
pass as Braudt's wlfs. Brandt was in-
sured under the name of Btun. 70
fully carry out the uece Jtioh,
Mrs. Meyer was married to Bra ndJ
Brandt was in the scheme and under
s ood that he was to be made TO appear
very sick and that then he would bs
taken away and mads better while q
body would be passed off as
his corpse Muller and Brandt at
the request of M/yer came too
New YORK, bought furItture in the name
of Baum and atred fiat in EIs5 Thir-
teentn street. Muller received a
package marked antimony from
Nave The latter told him it wa I,
TO be used to maze Brandt silk.
Wnen they got to New York the witness
aud Brandt stopped for the first night at
the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Mr.. Mcintyre
offered In evidence the hotel eElster in
which the witness aud Brannt had regis
tered on February 25. The next day the
witness said they went out and rented
fiat at No. 32O East Thirteenth street.
Brandt slept in the houss that night, but
the witness hired room for himself at
No. Is East welftn street.
AT this polnt Frank G. Schaefflsr, the
real estate agent from whom the witness
and Brandt, who was known as Baum.
hired the fiat, and Mrs. Leech. the jan-
itress OF the fiat mouse. were called Into
collrt and identified by the witness