New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-23
SUNDAY EDITION.
JULY 20, 1898.
HASTE TO TRY DIR. MEYER
HE WILL FACE A JURY IN THE FALL.

COUNSEL But III WILL PROBABLY EMPLOY
MEssRs. BROOKE O'sULIIvAN
MRS. MEYER NOT TO REACH
HERE THIS WEEK.
The District-Attorney's Office is taking an es-
pecial interest in the prosecution of DR. Henry c.
F. Meyer and his wife, who are under indictment
for poisoning Gustav H. NJ. Joseph Baum Ordi-
narily of this Importance is not tried for
year after the arrest of the defendant but John
+. Mcintyre, the Assistant District-Atorney TO
whom DistrictAttorncy Nicoll has assigned the
case. said yesterday that he thought the trial
would begin in three months
Mr.. Mcintyre intends to prepare the case for
trial alone, although it is common to have two
prosecutors attend TO so important a task. great
deal of the evidence is already in excellent shape,
thanks TO the work OF the Mutual Life Insurance
Companys officials Daniel G.. Gillette, the super
intendent of the Medical Revision Department Of
the company, has had charge of the investigation
from the first. having been aided by Ii. C. Julian,
a Pinkerton detective of Chicago. Mr.. Nicoll
spoke in high terms of the thOroughness with
which Mr.. Gillette had ookcd at every phase of
the case. Mr. Gillette has mass of papers which
he brought with him from Detroit and will turn
them over to Mr. Mcintyre in a few days.
Perhaps tie most important document in this
lot is the f1y-leaf Of book bearing few lines in
German. Meyer wrote these words directly after
he and his wife arrested in Detroit. lie
tried to hand the slip TO Mrs. Meyer, but the
police prevented this. In these lines Meyer told
his wife to commit suicide, saying that he would
do the same. Warden Fauon is taking every pre-
caution that Meyer shall not carry out his part
Of the bargain in the Tombs here. However, it
is likely that the prisoner never had any real in
tenton of ending his life, hut wrote the note
merely 10 get rid of a woman who might weaken
and bctray him on the trial.
Meyer still secs almost no one at the Tombs
Yesterday Dr. W J. OSullivan. who. with Charles
w. Brooke, will probably defend him, spent an
hour with him. They were locked together in
the room set apart for the consultation of pris-
oners with their lawyers. Meyer smoked cigars
nearly all the time he was with DIR. OSullivan
and, indeed, he spends good part of his waking
hours with cigar between his lips. The prisoner
asked his visitor several times how Mrs Meyer
was in Detroit He seemed to be much concerned
as 10 the state of her health and the Likelihood
Of her being brought TO this city shortly. lie
did not care to say anything about August Win
mers or Mrs. Winners. DR.. O'Sullivan SAYS that
Meyer will make one of the coolest. kcenest and
most admirable witnesses who has ever taken the
stand in his own behalf in the Court of General
Sessions. Mr. Brooke. who has had a long cX-
pcrlence with CRIMINALS, agrees WIFI III " NHih-
van that the lawyers who defend Meyer will be
substantially aided by their client i'll conducting
the case.
Messrs Brooke and O'Suivan said yesterday
that they had not yet made up their minds
whether TO defend Meyer They thought that
they would reach conclusion early this week.
On Friday, \. G.. Boyer, a lawyer living at No.
Pill East Observation-Disclosures went to
the Tombs 10 Meyer, having obtained Il per
nit for the purpose from the Dstrct-Att0rney
office. Boyer is a member of the law firm Of Hail.
Bouras a Beyer in the Vanderbilt Building, Of
which eX-Mayor A. Oakley Hall is the senior
partner. Boyer sent word TO Meyer that his firm
was anxious to defend him, and that money wasn't
their chief object in the affair. Meyer. however,
would not Boyer, and paid no attention to his
application 10 be employed as counsel.
There are other lawyers in this city who are
not averse TO the fame which defending i'm
portant a case would bring them. They also
do not seem to worry much to whether the
prisoner has money not. Meyer has recelvci
the business cards of number OF lawyers III the
Tombs since il announced that How" ~
lIummel were not to be his counsel ana ina lie
had secured no one else in their place. Some
LAWYERS have even written him letters asking 10
be retained by him. II may be taken for siant'+,
however that Ncssrs Brooke and OSulllNan VIII
defend him. Perhaps they VIII engage some
third lawyer 70 aid them, for the work enttIled
will be great. Mr.. O'SulliVan would take car"
of the expert testimony, as he did in the ca',
Of Dr. Robert w. Buchanan who was convictei
of poisoning his wife MIR. Brooke w1ald nave
general supervision of the defence, ana would
sum up the ease 10 the jury. There would he
other work for third lawyer, such as following
ND ce,vs and securing tn" Attendance Of with 'sNS
II had been expected that Mrs. Meyer would
be gt here from Detroit carly this week III
fact when Messrs. Gillette and Julian arrived
here last week, they thought she world ht ahle
to start tomorrow night. Her chlld was born
q week ago last Thursday. Advice has been re-
ceiyed here from the Chief OF Police Of Detroit
which indicates that the woman will remain
where She is for Il week ten days longer. She
has another child which il hardly wear old.
fjther Detective Won Gcrichten or Detective
Trainer will 60 TO Detroit to bring her here
Perhaps neither will relish the expedition, as the
charge of a woman and TWO babies on 50 long
Journey will be no laughing matter. /
'iugust WINNERS the alleged accompllcc Of |
Never i still in the IIouS, of Detention. Tie
Oft ono VIII, is allowed to visit him is his wife.
WINNERS will apparently tell all that he knows
nm tho witness stand. lie is not man OF
Naver,s mcttle Winners is great, coarse Ger
,nan aud when he arrived here the other day nc
wpjit copiously after an lh'erN"" WIFI soiho Vi
the detectives.