The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08
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W ofHER MAN IN oRDER
Cs obtsin 1nsurance which He Had
Placed ON His Life--Iis Then slowly
POISONED and Finally Killed Him.


NEW YORK, Dec. S.--Aftcr the Jury was
completed in the trial OF DIR. Henry &. +.
Meyer before Justice Barrett in the court
Of oyer and terminer, Assistant District
Attorney John F. Mcintyre in his
opening addresses last evening gave the
facts, CLEANED in three states and in
Europe, OF the elaborate preparations
by which, II is claimed, Meyer poisoned
his friend, Ludwig Brandt, to
obtain the $500 insurance on his life.
Apprised for the first time fully of all the
evidence against him, the defendant be-
came restive, and had TO be restrained
several times by his counsel.
This morning the taking OF the tcsti-
mony began. His accoinpiice, Carl Muller,
testified that Meyer told him that he had
insured Ludwig Bandit under the name OF
Gustnve Baum, that Baum was TO pretend
10 die, but in reality he did die from
poison administered by Never.
On Feb. II, 1892, in futhcrance of the
scheme, the defendant actually married
his own wife Amelia TO Brandt before
clergyman in Chicago, and on Feb. % got
Brandt, under the name OF Baum. TO
assign the policies to his wife," Amelia
Baum. Brandt was also a party To the
scheme to defraud the companies. Meyer
become i'll somewhere; that he could
disappear, and that the dead body
would complete the deception. Brandt
and Muller came to this city from Chi
cago on two tickets given them by Meyer
to carry out this arrangement.
They stopped the first night at
the Cosmopolitan hotel, and the next day
hired fat for $40 a month at go East
Thirteenth street. Brandt Immediately
wrote the insurance companies under
the name OF Baum, that he had come to
this city to reside. Muller being
afraid hired room for himself
The name Baum was put on the door of
Brandt's fiat. On March 5, Meyer and his
wife came from Chicago. They stopped
the first night at the Morton house and
then went to the fiat.
Brandt agreed to take a laxative medi-
cine, and Meyer went with Muller to a
drug store to get croton oil, but could not
obtain II without = -preseriptieR,-At a
second store Meyer gave a prescription,
signing it Otto Stein, Nj. d." Brandt
took ten drops of it. They then had To
get, by arrangement, a young physician
who would not be likely to suspect mur-
der. Meyer called on DIR. Minden at
st. Marks place TO see what sort
OF a person he was. He told him that he
was q physician from Colorado and
needed money. DIR. Minden said no
was not long in practice and could
not spare money for strangers. Dr. Meyer
was satisfied with DIR. Minden, and sent
Muller to engage him to attend Brandt.
DR.. Minden was required TO call
every day from March 9 almost to march
10 when Braudt died.
In the meanwhile Muller saw DIR. Meyer
put antimony each day into the food OF
Brandt. who was suffering the tortorcs
OF the damned. His eyes would bulge
from their sockets, and he would be
seized with horrible pains after his meals.
DIR. Meyer told Brandt that he was
getting better. Then Muller and Meyer
began to look about for corpse,
and they went TO tho morgue one
night TO claim one as being that Of
relative. They could not get in.
Meyer said that he would get another
sick man To live at the fat
Muller then became suspicious, and
asked il Meyer really intended to
kill Brandt. Myer said he did, rs
he had no money to get corpse. lie was
not satisfied with antimony, and would
use pure arsenic. Meyer went TO drug
Rist IN Jersey city and got the arsenic. He
He gave four or five doses TO Brandt.
After the death OF Brandt Mrs. Meyer
put on widows weeds. She went TO the
Washington Life Insurance company
with Muller and got $4,000,
giving the check to Meyer, who got the
owner Of the fat to cash it, Myer gave
geo TO Muller and told him TO get out.
Muller left. Meyer went to tho New
York Life Insurance company
with his wife next day and rot
$1,000. The following day they tried the
Etna Life for another $1,000, but excited
suspicion and were put of pending in
quiry. They then tried the Mutual Life,
where they also incurred suspicion. Mrs.
Meyer said she came from Denver, but
could not give the name OF any one she
knew there nor the name of any
street. She denied knowing Never
who stood beside her, and Mr.. Gil
lctte of the insusance company said thcy
knew of him and his other trials for mur-
der. Meyer and she, after leaving the
Office fled.