The evening world., 1894-05-17
SIXTH AVENUE e. 23D srPE
TO REACH THE JURY TONIGHT.
Summing Up in the Meyer Trial
Will End To-Day.
Recorder smyth Will Then Send the
Case TO the Jury.

The schedule agreed upon by the prin-
cipal actors in the trial of DR.. Henry c..
+. Meyer for the murder of Lud-
wig Brandt gave promise this morn
that by 7 or S o'clock this evening. the
case would be in the hands OF the jury.
Charles w. Brooke. who har talked
five hours to the jury on behalf of Dr.
Meyer. promised hat he would con-
clude his plea by recess to-day.
That would permit Col. Fellows to
begin his reply at 2 o'clock. the
more than three hours. to insure which
he instructed Assistant Dissatisfaction
ney JOIN +. Mcintyre to call him down
at exactly 8 o'clock.
World' reporter. that II Col Fellows
had concluded at r o'clock he should
certainly charge the jury his evening,
and send them out to their celebrating
room.
1t was 1l.2O when the inexhaustiblc
now of Brooke's clouuence began again
with an attack. upon the Identification
of the body r,Xhumed from Evcrgreens
PLANTATION on the alleged suspicious cir
cumstance that the Mutual Life nsur-
ance Company's agents procured IA per
nit June ~ from the Ncwtown Hoard Of
taken to kip's undertaking establish
ment till July 6. eight days later.
Mr.. Brooke limited that some one else
had already tempered with the body
when Snyder went to the EVcrgrecnS
Cemetery, armed with that permit to
open the grave and take away the body,
at Q o'clock In the morning, July &, 1892,
he found the grave already opened, and
the casket containing the body outsid"
the grave: on, the surface of the, earth
g]rave?' demanded MIR. Brooke. indig-
nantly.
"Snydcr had in his hand the only au
thorization for opening this. grave. How
know that this grave was to he opened:
Who told him? Who welded such an
influence on him that he permitted the
srays t" o be- e "Tene s W Whnn wa ani i orsyCa .
Was 1t opened that morning, or at somt
other time Had 1t been opened before
II there was some one who could Induce
the Superintendent to open tho grave
without authority. who knows hut the
same subtle influence might have In
duced him to open the grave days be
fore? ..r .,,
about It. All through this case he hobs
up. Julian! There he sits in the third
row OF chairs. Julian has been the
spirit, the genius, the prime mover IN
testimony Is OF the most Invaluable
character for the guidance of this jury
why wasn't he called to the witness
isn't II n lair Inference, almost m
absolute conclusion, thai n Mr.. Julian
had been called to the stand his teSti-
mony would not have guided YOU to q
verdict OF conviction. hut that his cross
examination would have guided you tc
an ncquittal?"
Julian. the head Of the detective de.
partmcnt ~ the Mutual Life Insurance
Company. only smiled on all this.
AT the touch of the wand OF this
man Julian even the graves OF the dead
are opened and give up their dead. II
II was possible for these secret ninkcr'
tons to open that grave unla wfully on
July G, II was possible for them to open
II before hat day. II would be easy tc
inject into that dead body n few drops
Of the poisons to he found there later
by the learned chemists,
at does not require much OF n stretch
of the imagination to believe that the
men whose infamous conduct at Home,
stead during the Carnegie strikes ap,
palled the world are UNEQUAL to Charg,
ing IA dead body with poisons in or,lrr
to convict n mar Of murder and send
him to his death in the interest or and
To please their employers, tbs" Mutual
Life Insurance Company, Their cupid,
itv vas being tempted to the utmost.
Kip and Julian apparently had access
To that grave at any time, and had com
plete control of it."