The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-14

custody. Two local detectives guided by
Detective Julian, of New York, and two
Pinkerton men arrested DR.. Henry c. w.
Meyer. Julian and the Pinkerton men have
been on his track for two years, and finally
cornered him in Detroit, collecting in the
meantime evidence which, they say, will
cause Meyer to suffer the death penalty. His
wife, Mary, is also under arrest. Together
with her 2-year-old son she was lodged in the
Woodbridge street police station. Latter she
was removed to Harper hospital, as she is in
a delicate condition and will soon be con.
fued
Julian says that Meyer graduated from
the Chicago Homeopathic school in 1873
and his operations began year later, when
he poisoned his first wife. Then he poisoned
an old man named Gilderman and married
the widow, poisoning her son, and, finally,
herself. Meyer then removed from Chicago
to New York, where he went into partner
ship with man named Brant, their scheme
being to beat insurance companies Brant
was to take out heavy insurance, become
sick, and apparently die, corpse being
procured from some other source, and used
to get the insurance. Brant took some
medicine to render him unconscious and
then, it is charged Meyer poisoned him,
collecting the insurance
In some way Meyer persuaded an Indian
apolis girl to accompany him to Toledo,
where he also poisoned her. He is known
to have collected $1,000 from insurance
companies, and the detectives feel conf
dent there are more cases to hear from.
Requisition papers are expected today,
and, although there are four cases against
him in Chicago, 1t is likely he will be sent
to New York, where the case is alleged to
be strong enough to warrant electrocu
tion.
Dispatches from New York announce
that the grand jury has found indictments
against Meyer and his wife, and the gov
ernor has demanded his extradition. In
addition to the crimes above recorded it is
charged that in New York Meyer and his
wife worked together on many cases, but
the only one which the police have any
positive information about happened on
March 20, 1893 On that day there died at
800 East Thirteenth street man named
Gustav A. j. Baum. He and a woman
known as his wife lived there alone. The
wife was very attentive to her supposed
husband, and allowed no ono else near
him. The attention, however, was only a
part Of plot, for the alleged wife Of Gus
tav Baum is Marie Meyer, the woman
arrested in Detroit.
The cause of the death of Baum was
given in the physicians burial certificate
as "chronic dysentery." Some months
before Baum's death he wrote to the Office
of the Mutual Life Insurance company
and had his life insured In his wife's favor
for 5000. The wife collected the insur.
ance money the day after the man was bur
led and disappeared.
DR.. Gillette, the physician of the insur-
ance company, had seen Baum after his
death, and became suspicious. When the
alleged wife disappeared so suddenly he
began to work on the case with the aid of
detectives. The detectives learned that
Baum's wife had an accomplice in some
medical man. They learned that the med
ioal man disappeared from the city about
the same time as the women did.
Two weeks ago the body of Baum was
exhumed, and an autopsy proved that he
had been poisoned by antimony. Coroner
Schultz, of New York, says THE case is
the most remarkable one | ever handled.
1t beats anything that Zola ever wrote
believe in the Baum case the Meyers took
Baum, in measure, into their scheme.
believe that they induced him to feign
sickness for a week or So saying that after
that time they would introduce a dead
body which the insurance people would be
deceived into believing was Baum's. Baum
became sick sure enough, but it was no
feiUnpd sickness -