The evening world., 1893-12-08
LAST EDITION
HIS AWFUL TALE.
DR.. Meyers Confessed Accom-.
plice Coolly Describes the
Murder Of "Baum."
|THEY ALL MET IN A PRISON,
After the Plot Was Hatched He
Began Administering
Slow Poison.
MRS. MEYER WAS HEARTLESS.
As a Fake Corpse Could Not Be
Found, Conspirator "Baum"
Had to Die.
MRS. MEYER WAS HEARTLESS.

The fervid imagination of Gaboriau
hever conceived tale SO horrible. so i'm
probable, as that which Prosecutor John
+. Mcintyre has promised to reveal
rom the mouths of sworn witnesses in
he trial for murder of DR.. Henry c. F.
Meyer, before. Justice Barrett, in the
Iourt of Oyer and Terminer.
1t is a story. not simply Of murder, but
II dozen deliberately planned and dia-
Polically achieved murders by the slow
st and most insidlous processes of poi
oning. The witnesses upon whom Mr..
Mcintyre depends for this story are the
confessed accomplices of the arch-mur-
erer-August Winners. alias Carl
fuller. and his pretty wife. Mary Neiss,
Eho was saved from death by poisoning
t the hands of the bloodless Meyer only
through the accident Of having excited
he love passion in one of her intended
hurderers, now her husband.
The victim, for whose taking Off DR..
Sleyer Is now standing trial, Ludwig
3randt--if that was his real name-was
lso conspirator with Meyer and Null
er, to cheat the insurance companies by
lmulating deathly sickness through the
According to the horrid tale told by the
Eloquent Prosecutor In his opening ad-
res. ress Meyer and Brandt, Winners and
irandt assumed when he got ais life in. e
|ured in four companies, were all in jail
Or various offenses when Meyer con-
focted his murderous schemes. Baum
|Tas still In jail in Cincinnati when the
ther three began operations in Baum 5
|ame.
Mr.; Mcintyre told the jury that Meyer
bad been twice tried for murder by poi
on, the first victim being his first wife
nd the second son OF that wife by
former marriage.
The cool and bloodless Meyer lost con-
rol OF his vindictive temper at this, and
Using in his place yelled:
1T Is a lie, a dirty lie!'
But Mr.; Mcintyre reiterated the state
nent while Lawyers Chanler, Brooke
Pa M O'Sullivan quieted pr Meyer.
Known as Mis-. Marie Meyer alias Mrs.
{aum, alias Amelia Meyer. laughed mer-
ily at this scene. and made all behold
bs rs inerIonshd Wonder what was her games" for
ielict OF the. supposed dead Baum. and
claimed the insurance on his life week
atter his alleged death. and she will
tpI69W trid3 W her h9soand as defendant or
Mr.. Mcintyre this morning called "Carl
Meyer.
with full beard Of dark brown and
small, deep sunken blue eyes looking
like young graduate Of medical col.
sege or young lawyer-left the side OF
ms, ms hn bride. soon to take the name OF
Mr. Brooke asked that all witnesses bt
excluded from the room, and on the or
uer or the Court, forty men and womer
ger"
aliases ?" asked Mr.. Mcintyre 1
d fs ear musrP haEs Sssast nndsS wm h
mers and Otto C. Stone
Witness said he was, thlrty-four year.
old; Then he continued:
school SIl- teacher there. l came to America
IN 1887. In 1888 l went to Kansas City
and thence to Chicago. l made a living
as bartender, a milkman's agent and
Tage maker: i played the plano one tim'
Muller speaks with very strong &C
Geht ip tca and is hard to follow. He said tina
N 1880 he was arrested for using tn,
nited States mails for Illegal purposes
cI was In with a number of othel
Germanss to defraud the Western farm
ers. said Muller. I'VE advertised tina
young girl wanted a husband and 20
managed to get from them small sums
Of money. / was convicted and sent t
Joliet Prison for twelve months.
carNI Mhile in. in the Cock County Jail {chi
M
baum and Peter C. Parker. whom
afterwards knew as Ludwig Brandt.
atso saw that woman. Mrs. Meyer, whei
ssne came to see her husband" salt
Stuller, turning towards the woman will
,sushing blue eyes, whose large. straigh
mouth mouth was twitching as II she wer
making making a vain effort to restrain he
Dr Meyer, cool. calm and deliberate
oU,day: might have been mistaken TO
SSne or the clerks OF the great lawye
.,narles w. Brooke, as he bent over
npOotebook and wrote indLstriously, taking
aotes OF the testimony OF his alleged
NyWvonpllce for future use.
ar, Brooke caused a pause In th'
,,oory OF Muller by entering an objection
W W The relation by the witness of an,
SShVersation had by the witness witt
r, Src Meyer in the Chicago jail. on tn,
SSVuhd that such a conversation coulC
M be received in evidence until afte
Se, SIe PROOF OF a conspiracy had been pre-
pIhree hundred curious people had file,
G re lobbies and corridors of the bi
hourt, House, clamoring for admission L
Ne chamber where the scene of tn
Aieeyer trial was laid.
omMapt Ricketts, had instructed the cour
iunSers to admit no one but witnesses
dis men. lawyers. and reporters, and tn
appointed crowds were driven away.
mi.ne giant egure OF julie" Arnold 4
~eeo At the entrance TO the cour