The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-11
CRIED FOR A MAN TO KILL.
HeaTtleSS Mrs. Meyer Feared a Scheme
Of Fraud Would Fail.
Brandt's Heart Then Melted-He Be-
came the Victim of Big Conspiracy
to Cheat Insurance Companies, and
Was Deliberately Murdered.

From the Philadelphia Record.
| New York, Dec. S.-A woman tossing
| upon bed, and weeping because her real
| husband had not been quick about muir
: dering the man to whom she pretended to
| be married, and whose death was to bring
/ her thousands of dollars of insurance
money, was the blood-curdling story of
| fiendishness told in Justice Barrett's
court to-day.
Dr. Henry C. F. Meyer is on trial,
! charged with the murder of Ludwig
| Brandt, so that he could realize on the
| insurance policy. When Assistant Dis
trict Attorney John F.. Mcintyre, who is
conducting the prosecution, outlined the
case for the state, the story of the con-
| spiracy to rob the insurance companies,
| which resulted i'll the death OF Ludwig
| Brandt, was told in detail.
| OCarl Muller, alias Winners, who was
an accomplice in the conspiracy, took the
stand to-day TO give states evidence He
| is a small, bearded man, with close set
| eyes and sharp, peaked face. He had
come down from the House of Detention,
where he has been locked up, in default of
| bail.
MULLRR's BLOOD oURDLING STORY.
! Carl Muller, the Witness turned states
| evidence, so as to save himself. He con-
fessed TO having been a piano player in
! disreputable houses in Chicago; to having
been imprisoned for crime, and to have
shared in the money obtained from an
| insurance company through the death of
| Ludwig Brandt.
| Mr.. McIntyre's first question was;
| What is your right name?" Carl Kir-
| fel, - answered the witness Muller. In
| Chicago he was arrested for improper use
of the United States mails.
Tell the jury what your offense was, ;"
| said his examiner, coldly.
The witness said he had inserted an ad-
vertisement in the papers in the person of
two beautiful young girls, " seeking hus-
! bands. When deluded countrymen
| answered this advertisement Muller sent
| them photographs of beautiful girls and
wrote, expressing a willingness to go to
his correspondent, but would first have to
| be supplied with funds for travelling ex-
| penSes. He was arrested for this fraud,
and pending his trial was confined in the
| Cook county Jail There he first made
| the acquaintance Of Henry +. c. Meyer,
| Mr. Meyer, and one q. II. J. Baum, alias
! Pach and Brandt. Muller said that
while in jail Meyer had told him that
when he got out of prison, he, Muller,
| should call on Meyer and engage with
| him in scheme for defrauding insur-
! ance companies. Meyer promised that
| there would be thousands of dollars in il
| for Muller. Muller went from the Jail to
the prison at Joliet, where he served a
term of eleven months. and then he re-
turned TO Chicago He found Never
practicing medicine at No. 331 Centre
street. Meyer asked Muller whether he
| was ready to go into the insurance
swindle, but Muller answered that he
was not, as he feared detection, and had
| had enough of prison life. At his first
| visit to Meyers Office Muller met Mrs
| Meyer, whom he had seen in jail.
Muller then said, in answer 10 ques-
tions, that he met Meyer several times
/ during the summer of 1891. Meyer told
! Muller that he had determined on one of
two schemes When he had informed
himself about Baum in Germany he
would have Brandt insured as Baum, get
| Brandt sick, buy corpse and substitute
| it for Brandt, or else hire a very sick man
to take Brandt's place at the proper time.
! Having disclosed this intention accord
ing to the witness, Meyer did go to Ger
many. Anyway, he was absent from
Chicago for three months.
THE WOMAN IN THE SCHEME
At this point in the story there is a
hiatus which other witnesses must fill, as
Muller could not tell how the four policies
| were obtained which il is known were
secured on the life of Brandt, who APP
peared as Baum in the applications.
Meyer seems to have advanced his
schemes rapidly, for when the witness
was next taken into confidence he was
informed that Meyers wife had been
| married to Brandt in order to appear as
| the widow Baum when the insurance poll
| cies had to be collected The witness
went slowly on with his story Meyer
| took him to a Clark street ticket office,
| in Chicago, where he bought two
| cheap tickets TO New York, and told
Muller to meet him at the Park street
| station next morning. The next day
| Meyer brought Brandt to the station
and gave Muller,the two tickets and $40
| Muller told of their trip to this city, Of
their sleeping the first night, Feb %. at
! the Cosmopolitan hotel, and renting the
| fat, No. 800 East Thirteenth street On
! March Meyers and his wife arrived
| from Chicago and went to the Morton
house, where they registered as Mr. and
| Mrs. Woerner. The next day they moved
| into the Thirteenth street fat, Mrs. Never
as Mrs. Baum, and Meyer as Woerner
! Two hotel registers and the contract for
| the rented piano were introduced, and the
landlord aud the janitress of the fiat, fur
niture dealers and others were identified
| by the witness.
HUNTING A SICK MAN TO KILL.
The day after the fat was furnished,
| Meyer suggested that they get down to
the business which had brought them to
| New York. He wanted either Muller or
Brandt to get sick" Both declined
| Then Meyer and Muller made visit to
Bellevue hospital in search of some one
who would not have to be made sick, be-
! ing so already They were not admitted
| to the hospital, but when Meyer saw a
| free dispensary opposite he said that
was even better place. Meyer spoke to
one man whom he saw there, who seemed
very sick but, after long talk with him
decided he would not do, as he had
| parents living in this city. The two in
| valid hunters then went back to the fat,
! where Meyer told his wife that the
scheme would have 10 be given UP, as he
| could not find an available sick man, and
| both Muller and Brandt remained obdu-
rate in their unwillingness to be "made
| sick.''
CRIED FOR SOME ONE TO MURDER.
| Mrs. Meyer refused to listen to any
! abandonment of tine scheme after all the
money had been spent in advancing it
| thus far.
| When Muller and Brandt again refused
the request to be made sick Mrs Never
threw herself on the bed and burst into
| tears.
! This touched Brandt's heart, and he
/ finally gave the consent, which proved
according to the story of the witness, TO