The sun., 1894-10-01
MRS. MEYER IMPATIENT.
AFTER ~ MONTHS nv PRISON sHE
rs EAGER TO BE TRIED.

10 EAdEh IO BE IhIEDs
says She HAS No Doubt ne to the outco-e
-Cortradiets some OF M MeIntyre's
stnte-euts About Her-Ha- Has E1pe-
rie,ce with Hypnotisr, but VIII Not
Say what Will ne Her Defence.
II the counsel for tho defence in the coming
trial OF Mrs. Meyer, wife Of DIR. Henry G. f.
Meyer. the poisoner, decide to set up hypnotic
influence by way Of justification of her alleged
part in the murder of Ludwig Brandt, alias
Baum, the court and jury will be called upon to
Judge a character novel In the annals OF the
history of criminal trials. Mrs. Meyer. now
confined in the Tombs, is said to be a subject
trained to undergo the mysterious influences
which men of science assert can he
exerted by one mind over another. She says
herself that she is susceptible to hypnotic innu-
ence, and has at times been thrown into q cata-
leptic state. DR.. Flint, who has given consider
able attention to hypnotlsm. said In the second
week Of the trial OF DR.. Never that he believed
Mrs Meyer to be a very susceptible subject to
the influence. II Mrs. Meyer is subjected to the
influences OF an expert will she initiate the
tions she performed while she under the
spell Of the posoner2 In case the defence should
set up this plea, Assistant District Attorney Nc
Intyre, who will conduct the prosecution, says
the practical tests will be made. One OF Henry
1rving's most effective partsis that Of Matthias
in The Bells" who dreams that he II put un-
der the influence of hypnotist, and that he is
made to confess a murder which he had COM
mitted many years before.
The story of the poisoning Of Brandt, as re-
lated by Or. Meyers accomplce, Muller is true,
Mr.. Mcintyre says, to the minutest detail. Mr..
Mcintyre personally spent months of prepara-
tion and travelled nearly 10000 miles verifying
Muler's statements.
mater wnH .n .nu uesp,c"Ue S GnSracver al, % OF
~" .' , ne ,o,' ,no S,usn ,,e.., "oouU
tne murder. ne seemed 70 nave kept com
from the moment they began. and his state.
out" Muller. ,o,orD, ., III. ooD.D,r,,v va. ,-,.ov
as follows; Muller and Brandt became ao-
quainted with Meyer in the Cook county Jail in
l,l,nols: wnere al .nree were 'ohihea pn ior va
rious onehces. meyer explained MS scheme for
bodies as those NJ nsrsons who ycre insured
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anu 'm. 'nree men Ms. Msoa. o.eS ~ne" .n.y
n, tho TAIL Afterward when tbev me, outside
q, sno 'a.. ~, ,a wv, ,n. ~ ~,
Meyer explained that he had insured the lie or
one Gustave II. NJ. J. Baum, and it was agreed
that prandt sbould como IN New Work
and impersonate Baum. 1t is said that
Dr and Mrs Never even iournpyed To
ou,.n Lo.a ,.- h.o.,, tuu,..
"eiihh5, "heio '"'' o''aio i""h"i
with the history OF Baum; Then they returned
to New York and hired a fiat in Thirteenth
street. Meyers scheme was that either Brandt
or Muller should allow himself to be made Ill, SO
seriously as TO deceive even physician, and
when at deaths door Meyer would administer
an antidote which he knew Of and the sick man
would become well and disappear and corpse
would be substituted In his stead. There was
difnculty In securing corpse, ana both Brandt
and Muller declined to be made ILL.,
Finally Brandt, who II was said. was In love
with Mrs. Meyer. consented to allow himself to
be subjected TO Meyers treatment. That there
would be no trouble Mrs. Meyer was made to
marry Brandt The latter was dosed with anti
mOny and croton oil. physician prescribed
for him and the others administered the medi-
cines. Brandt fingered, and was ultimately
poisoned by Meyer who gave him arsenic. The
insurance money, about $1,000, WAS secured by
Mrs. Meyer. and all went out West.
Muller believed that he had been de-
for $500. DIR. Meyer was tried and sentenced to
life imprisonment and Muller Is still in the
House OF Detention. DIR. Meyers lawyers de-
clare that they will yet find the man who was
supposed to have been poisoned and that he will
be released.
A SUN reporter talked with Mrs. Meyer In the
Tombs prison yesterday afternoon. She has
been in prison for fourteen months and has
what Is called prison pallor, Mrs. Meyer has
been instructed by her counsel to be- careful how
she talks, and she was not disposed to give
specific information In regard To her defence.
:" have Just finished reading Mr.; Mclntyres
statements about me and my probable defence,
she said, and am feeling very melancholy, /
can't see how Mr.. Mcintyre could have the