The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-12-13
MEYER MURDER TRIAL.
Further Testimony Againgt the
Alleged Poisoner.
MINDEN ON THE WITNESS STAND.

The Doctor Declares That the Medicine
senio or Antimony-Damag Evidence
of Insurance Men.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-The evidence in
the trial of the alleged poisoner. DIR. Henry
G. F. Meyer, yesterday, while not so
thrillingly tragic as that given by his
hccOmplice, Carl Muller, was interesting
enough to hold m audience quiet and at
tentive all day long. The testimony was
all corroborative of the story told by
Muller, and pointed strongly to the claim
he makes that Meyer was tho principal in
the scheme to defraud the insurance COM
panies.
The case was reopened with the cross
examination of Daniel &. Gillette mana
ger OF the department of revision in the
Mutual Life Insurance company, whose
suspicious had been aroused by the un-
secnly haste Of the widow to collect the
policies on her dead husbands life. He
told the whole story over again; how the
alleged widow Amelia Baum, came to
him April II. 1892, with William Reuter-,
whom he now recognizes in DR.. Meyer
He questioned her closely, and was much
amazed by Interruptions by Reuter-, who
tongue; how the woman seemed to have
very little information to impart about
her dead husband although to account
for her delicate condition, She told him
she had lived with Baum two years in
Denver although they had not been mar
red till Feb, II, 1872. six weeks before he
died; how she could not name the street
In Denver, nor tell place where her al
legged husband had been Employed how
he succeeded, by a pretext, in securing
specimens of the handwriting Of both Of
his visitors and on what he had learned
from them began the investigation which
ended in the discovery Of Muller, the ar
rest of DR. and Mrs. Meyer and their pros
ecution.
Mr., Brooke for the defense tried to lead
the witness to acknowledge irrrglIarty
In his method of vestigatiGn. but failed.
Thomas II. Meyer, Cyrus NJ, Mum,
Wright Buragc and Thomas Tieruey. also
insurance men, gave corrohorative testi
mony Xachariah Hermanson, Chicago
newspaper man, identified Il photograph
of Brandt, and then Mrs. Muller was nut
on the stand. Her estmony was not di-
rcctly pertaining to this particular crime
and of no value.
Then Undertaken Kip testified to the
funeral of Brandt and the eXhumation of
the body, and Coroner Schulz testified re-
gardinS the inquest, when it was decided
that Brandt had been poisoned by anti
mony and arsenic
DR. Given B. Minden testified TINT in
March, 1852, he wns called in to attend II
man giving the name of Baum, but who
proved to be Brandt. Two days after
Muller and WINNER visited Witness
WINNER brought card to witness in
which Baum stated the medicine pre-
scribed by witness had failed to relieve
him Witness called at the Baum Hut
and WAS taken To Braudts room, where
the latter lay in bed. lie was introduced
by Baum to Mrs. Meyer as his wife FIX
amined patient and found that his bowel
complaint had grown worse lie sup
posed that the patient he'd taken medi
ciEcs prescribed by hitn, but was not Ger
tain Witncss attended l.im daily until
the tmc of his death lie huh grown
worse with each day. Dr Miudeu said
that if the medicines had been given 10
his patient II could not have boon in hn
way prescribed by him. None of his pre-
strptions contained either anlimuny or
ar, mic.
AZ the evening session DR. Mindra was
cros, c&amnel ~ Lawyer O'SulliyGM
He dcniel hat he had been promised any
money by the district attorney, but aa-
mittcd lhat the Mutual Life Insurance
company had agreed to pay him for tho
time sucIi an the rnSp,