The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-12-08
NEYER'S TRIAL BEGUN.
A Jury Finally Secured in the
Great Murder Case.
SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY COMING.

Carl Muller and His wife wan Tell Of
Their Former Connection with the Al
legged Wholesale Poisoncr aud OF His
Many Grimes
New YORK, Dec S-The jury for the
trial Of DR.. Henry G.. Meyer was com
pleted yesterday at o'clock. There had
been $40 citizens examined before the
twelfth man was selected
Before the jury Prosecutor Mcintyre
will lay the proofs of the crimes alleged
TO have been committed by the prisoner
who has already been tried three times
for similar ollcuses, but i'm each case man
aged to step free from the penalty of the
law.
Mrs. DIR. Meyer has been in court every
day since the trial began, and Mr., Mcln-
tyre, when asked why she was brought
down from her cell in the Tombs, an
swered.
/ "Ier presence is necessary at the exam
ination of the witnesses for the prosecu-
tion. 1t is entirely a matter of identifca-
ton"
! DR.. Meyers fUrtive eyes, fitting from
| place to place in the court room, never
+ rest upon Carl Muller and Mary Neiss.
4 He seems to be oblivious to their presence,
but when they go on the stand they will
surely lay bare the long story, the horri-
BILE tale of the score of people in as many
cities whose lives, the prosecution claims,
, DR.. Meyer has attempted during the four
teen years since he came to America in
| 1879.
| Carl Muller is on the program as the
! first witness for the prosecution. He and
u. -Uaa 10. J.
from the House of Detention, where they
/ have been held since September Mrs.
/ Muller then violated the confidence re
posed in her by the district attorney and
/ ran away from the Brooklyn boarding
! house, where she was living at the ex-
| pense of the county. She was caught in
/ Rochester and brought back and placed
! where she could not run away again
| Carl fell in love with Mrs. Muller then
! Mary Neiss a servant girl, while she was
| being poisoned to death in Toledo No
! one could blame Carl Muller for repent
| ing of his share in the conspiracy to poi
son the little creature to death, and elop.
| ing to save her life for himself Mary
! Neiss Muller, alias Winners, is most
! interesting young woman. She looks like
| one of the soubrettes who hutter up and
! down broadway during the summer
! months, only she wears a long velvet
! cloak trimmed with fur. Her hat is a
| dainty thing trimmed with fur and hav-
! ing green parrot wing in its front. All
around her head fluffy soubrette crimps
are clustered, and behind them is bunch
! of the crinkly brown hair, confined close
| to the head by bit of ribbon.
| The man who left off poisoning her to
marry her locks like young physician or
! lawyer, with his full beard Of dark brown
and close cut hair Muller, when he goes
| on the stand, is expected TO tell that Dr.
! Meyer, under the names of William
! Reuter-, Hugo Wayler, Henry Meyers and
! Weiner, has been twice tried for murder
| in Chicago the first time on a charge of
| poisoning his wife, and the second on a
| charge of poisoniuga man, each time with
! the purpose of securing the insurance on
! the life of a victim; once in South Bend,
! on a charge of forgery, and once for al
! legged fraudulent life insurance. He was
| acquitted on the murder trials, but, il is
| alleged, was convicted and imprisoned on
| the other charges.
| He will also tell of his own completely
! in Myers crimes, and his statement, to a
| degree, will be corroborated by that of his
/ WIFE, especially in regard TO her own par
| ticular case
After the jury had been sworn in Mr..
| Mcintyre began his argument for the
| prosecution, iu which he declared that he
/ was prepared to prove the charges made
| against the prisoner. Mr.. Mcintyre was
/ still speaking when court adjourned.