The evening world., 1894-04-27
MULLER RETELLs HIS STORY
The Alleged Poisoning Of Brandt
Told in Detail.
Tr. Meyers Desperate Plot to De-
fraud Insurance Companies.

The second trial Of DIR. Meyer for the
killing by poison of Ludwig Brandt was
resumed this morning In Part IL. of Cen
eral Sessions.
Carl Muller. the alleged accomplice who
has turned States evidence, took the
stand again.
He said he first met Ludwig Brandt
at DR.. Meyers home. 331 Centre street,
Chicago. June 8, 1891. In conversation
Brandt said then that he had read in
a newspaper that Gustav NJ. A. ]. Baum
was under arrest in Cincinnati. Baum
was the erring son of German family.
Meyer, Brandt and Muller proposed to
insure Brandts life In the name of
Baum, and while Baum was In Jail
Brandt was to feign illness, bogus
corpse was to be put in his bed and a
physicien's certificate of the death of
Baum (BrandO thus obtained on which
to claim the $500 insurance money.
There were several conversations, in
one on Of which DR.. Meyer told Muller that
ABOUT to to Gefma Ssp to and md oas
whether Baum had told him the truth
ABOUT his family there and their wealth.
Baum and play upon the sympathies Of
BauM's parents. get lot Of money from
them for the purpose Of getting young
pduIH out OF prison, come DdCk ana use
the money in carrying out the scheme
for insuring some man under the name
of Baum.
Baum was i'll at the time, and the
died, when they would collect the
Baum didn't &c. He, got well. and
wa, was given hi, his liberty; He was soon in
the insurance scheme was modified. and
the substitution Of a corpse to imper-
senate Baum decided upon.
Muller enS to Nsw
to work out the scheme. For the pur-
pose Brandt married Mrs. Meyer under
the name Of Baum. Notice of a trans
Baum and of their removal to New
York was sent to the several insurance
companies, and they came to New York
in January, 1892.
1t was not easy to get corpse, and
an effort was made by Dr. Meyer to get
a sick man who. would allow them to
nurse him until he died. a physician to
Brandt and Muller came to eNw York.
They registered at the Cosmopolitan
Hotel Chambers street, as Salton and
Otto G. Stein In Next day t they went out
himself at 4s East Twelfth street,
DR.. and Mrs. Meyer, came on a few
nays in his nat and the name Joseph
Baum" on the door slip and letter-box.
Muller bought furniture with $40 given
to him In Chicago. by Dr.. Meyer.
Chicago as a pian22-player in ,disoraerly
houses The second night In New York
he received a similar Job in West Thir-
Dr.. Meyer applied at the Baum" fiat.
entry on the Morton House Register,
March c, 1892, and said it was in pr.
ha tro
Werner and wife. Milwaukee, Wis"
pr. Meyer said he did not like the
back door; and besides, the house was
built too light. You could hear every
thing in the next fat"
DR.. Never and Muller bought more
furniture March 8. in Fourteenth street
Meyers suggestion that "our furniture
DR.. Meyer, Muller and Brandt went
first to Bellevue Hospital and then to a
yoang man III and without friends who
would be glad to come into the fiat and
be nurscd there by DR.. Meyer; This
sick man was to be known as Baum.
Things looked blue at the nat. DR..
Meyer wanted to give up, the scheme.
Mrs. Meyer. the blue-eyed, threw her
self on bed and wept. She said:
IT shall not go out OF eNw York till
that scheme has been worked out"
spouse. but Brandt came to the front
nobly. He said he was willing to be
s'S you can give me anything you want.
Any poison r make me sick. but you
Then Il was arranged that at the prop
Or time q corpse was TO be brought into