The evening world., 1894-04-12
meyer AGAIN AT BAR.
Getting a Jury for the Alleged
Prisoners Second Trial.
He Has Improved Greatly Since His
Imprisonment.
Recorder Smyth VIII Hear the Tes-
timony This Time.

For the second time DR.. Henry C. F.
Meyer was placed on trial to-day for
the murder OF Ludwig Brandt by poi
soning. The first trial in the Court OF
oyer and Terminer, before Justice Bar
rett, came to n sudden and tragic end
just as all the evidence had been com
pleted and while the persuasive Charles
w. Brooke was in the midst of an i'm
FASHIONED appeal for the life Of the ac-
cused. Mr.. Brooke had just completed
a rounded period in his plea. when the
seventh juror. Alexander b. Low, a
plumber living at 102 West Eighty-third
street, collapsed, and in ten minutes was
a raving maniac. OF course. that re-
suited in n mistrial.
The second trial was begun before
Recorder Frederick Smyth. the same
Judge who presided at the trials of Car
lyle w. Harris and DIR. Robert w.
Buchanan. both of whom were CON
victed OF wife murder.
These are the only cases in which muir
der by vegetable poisoning has been
charged in the history of New York
City.
Dr. Meyer is charged with administer
ing the mineral poisons. arsenic and
antimony, as well as morphine, and
traces of copper poisoning were found
by the chemical experts in the vitals of
the alleged victim.
one might count on his fingers all OF
the cases of vegetable poisoning in the
world in which conviction of the poisoner
able convictions for poisoning by mineral
p%oisons, but in nearly every case of
either kind the conviction has resulted
from direct or circumstantial testimony.
not from the result of the findings OF
scientific experts.
Harris was convicted by the chemists.
Buchanan. according to the jurymen,
would not have been convicted by the
experts, but WAS convicted on his own
substantial corroboration Of the wit
nesses for the prosecution and by the
c1rcumstantial
The story told from the witness stand
in the first trial Of DR.. Meyer was the
most startling in the annals Of crime. 1t
mers. Ludwig, Brandt and Gustav M. A.
J: Baum, while prisoners In the Chicago
scheme to cheat lie insurance compan-
les. Baum got into more trouble and
found 1t CONVENIENT to disappear. Or.
ance policies on the life of Brandt. under
tibet name of Baum, using their com
plete knowledge Of Baum's antecedents
Brandt and Mrs. DR.. Meyer appeared
before Il Chicago clergyman and were
married; becominG Nj and Mrs. Baum,
Muller l"ST " came to Mrs Kew Wey FORK hr and M ana
Meyer and Brandt set up housekeeping
in a fiat in Fast Thirteenth street.
Brandt took morphine and emetics to
cmaciate him and make him Ill. A
~neighboring physician; DR.; Minden,. was
called IN to treat MT. Baum" Mean;
body from the Morgue, which was to be
prepared to look like Brandt-Baum, for
whom Or. Mtnden was to be beguiled
into issuing a certificate OF death, after
which, and n decorous funeral, the in
surance companies were to be bled for
an aggregate Of s., 800.
a cadaver. Then he tried to find some
young man dying Of consumption who
would agree to go under the name of
Baum TIL death came. but that failed
also. Then DIR. Meyer, it is alleged, be-
came desperate. and decided to surrep-
titiously Introduce poison into the food
and medicine administered to his fell
low-conspirator. Brandt. who had by
this time made himself really very III.
Doses of arsenic and anthony finished
the job. and there was a funeral on
Mrs, Meyer In deep mourning, ap;
peared at the insurance Offices. and
ceeded IN collecting, 5000 from the New
York Life and 1000 from the Washing
, ton Life, DIR: Meyer accompanying her
as her cousin" The Mutual and Etna
Mrs. Meyer and Muller disappeared.
The Meyers were arrested in Detroit
In July. 1893, on information given by
= Muller, and Muller was a witness for
the State against DIR. Meyer in his trial
q last December. So was Muller's wife,
Muller said he was CogniZant of many
, similar poisoning schemes of DIR. Meyer.
and that II was while DIR. Meyer was
slowly poisoning his servant, Mary
Neiss, that he CMuller) fell in love with
= her, stole her away and married her to
I save her from death.
Assistant District-Attorney John F.
Mcintyre, who not only prepared, but
5 presented the ironclad case against the
Meyers in the December trial, appears
, IS prosecutor again in this trial.
t Tombs to Fart il. of the Court OF Cen
eral Sessions in the Black Maria this
. morning, Is represented by Charles w.
Brooke, the veteran lawyer, whose
fame as IN orator is the country wide
e DIR. w. J. O'Sullivan. the young lawyer
, who achieved fame as a medical. chem,
u zeal, Pathological, legal and pathological
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, an Astor
heir, with "A large fortune and "A reputa-
ton as an able lawyer.
= indicted with Dr. Meyer, hut who viii
q ~" tried separately, was not brought to
court to-day, and will not be IN a, jury
has been selected for the trial OF heI
husband.
it was I2l5 when DR., Meyer was
called from the prison pen in the rear
a fore the bar. The Doctor has actually
Improved in appearance in his Ions
confinement. His color is healthy. his
queer, gray eyes brighter. He was
neatly dressed in a suit of black,
with a black froGk, coat, He had had
a clean shave, and his yellow mustacne
a attained its natural growth,
Clerk William T.. Penny turned the
wheel OF fortune In which the jury bal
lots are hidden, and the first slip ORA WI
out bore the name OF Samuel Levin. OF
IS Catherine street.
Il Mr., Lev!en is perhaps sixty-four year
old, retired from business and IA property
owner. He had no bias and no preJu
dice regarding the case. Col. Fellows
was satisfied with him.
Mr., Brooke examined him. Nothing
a new was learned. At a nod from Col
Fellows Mr.. Brooke said: "'xscused By
consent, and Mr.. Leim departed.