The evening world., 1894-05-02
Prosecution Springs an Old "Ial"
on DR.. Meyer.
Gardner Was in Cook County Jail
with the Alleged Prisoner.
Identifies Him, His Wife and Carl
Muller.

The lawyer was feeling very much
elated over his success In making Muller
contradict his former testimony yester-
day. and In showing by Muller's letters.
written while In the House Of Deten-
ton, that he was willing to face about
and testify in Or. Meyers favor II
Brooke, O'Sullivan & Brooke would bail
him out OF the House Of Detention.
The questions OF three or four OF the
jurors n the look OF disgust on their
faces. seemed to Indicate to the vet
pable hit.
Muller's wife. the nuny-haired. soul.
raI.-eysd. pink-eheeked soubrette wilt
the last trial. has not beer taken to
court yet. II is not generally known.
put this fratl beauty has not been in
the House OF Detention since her baby
was born In the Lying-1n Asylum.
She, lives in East Tenth street, not n
stones throw. from the grave from
which the body Of A. r. Stewart was
stolen twenty years or more. She
mitted, TO go about the streets in the day
time. but some member OF the family
Is always somewhere near.
be,SSS gon d,dn, !. tel Brandt that he was
in a voice that carried with 1t absolute
loathing OF the miserable little Muller.
Wa 1t to please DR.. Meyer or be-
proceeds Of the conspiracy to be con.
No STR" yelled Muller, waving his
Brandt that DR.. Meyer was giving him
arsenic because | knew Brandt would
not believe me-"
Julius Aschelm. the twelfth juror.
"Did you ever eat any of the food
In that flat?"
Very seldom"
Food prepared by DR.. Meyer?'
No. sir: prepared by Mrs. Meyer"
"But you testified yesterday that DIR.
Meyer prepared all the food said Mr..
All the food for Brandt. you mean"
MIR, Brooke elected from Muller '' thai
Or, Minden. the physician who was
called In by Muller in February to at
fr reno bbn nn supposed to be suffering
!" and said he could not live on
March 20, ten days before he died.
When he said that. Mrs. Meyer, who
told DR., Minden that she wanted to
nave some undertaken whom DR.. Min
den knew when her husband died"
Muller did not mention this on the
told Brandt himself, four days be
fore he died, that he could not recover.
twas developed in the cross-examina-
ION that Muller had never been divorced
That he married Mary Mess nevertheless,
ana that he sent money to his wife in
Germany. when he received the
300 from the Mutual Life Insurance Com
Pany,s agents for aiding them in locating
DR.. Meye
It leaked out after recess that the
prosseuti 6 bad found q new Chicago
County Jail, Chicago, and that he would
placed on the stand.
Mr. Brooke wound up his cross-exam-
nation OF Muller by dra wing out the
Meyer in Detroit.
Prosecutor Mcintyre began the re-
direct examination with the question:
What did you quarrel with DIR. Meyer
Mr.. Brooke objected and argued the
objection, but Recorder Smyth over
rui9d the objection, and Muller replied
.ng my wife. He had tried to poison
No inkling of this story of the poison
nlg OF Mary, Mess, the soubrette servant
' 'he.' t TsT triaI' and % & Se. Il Int 1ery wa IN
point.
Mr.. Mcintyre finished with Muller in
,alf an hour. hen Brooke began by
lsking for a repetition of Muller's state
nent regarding the cause OF his quarrel
YIN Meyer, and drew out the story of
he elopement. |
Muller aid he first met Mary Mess at
D.; Meyers home in Toledo, Sept. &c.
Ssl. He was there two days. Dec. 26
he Joined him in Chicago and they be.
April "a, 1893, by a Justice OF the Peace.
The man said he was playing piano in
disorderly house during these months,
became excitedly angry when
innate.
mo sir" he shrieked; "she was living
With me in my respectable house. She
H Has n erotec Z" nv 'H% wife.s Of any house
eie" "the ~i lawful Rife yon des asted
n ermany, or this u woman you
ully and then married Illegally"
Muller said he had taken Mary to Chi
n lived four months with her
here to protect her from arsenic and
ntimony. as DR.. Meyer had told him
hat her life was insured in the Equita-
ie Life Assurance Society for 5000 in
That ended Carl Muller's ordeal.
here wasn't much left OF his character,
Though his story was mistaken.
J. J. McCluskey, the furniture dealer
whom Muller says he and Brandt
ought furniture for the fiat 800 East
thirteenth street. was called to Identify
John Gardner, the new itness. was
zen called. He lives at 207 West Mad
WI, sueet, 'ulcdpO. paTunef was In
ook County Jail in 1880 on a plea OF
Utility. for obtaining money on false
retenses. n was there when Baum.
randi Muller and Meyer Were there,
He Identified Muller and DIR. Never
nd testified that while in the fail. DR.
proposed his scheme for cheating
le assurances companies. to him.
He got out OF jail in September and
,lled on the Meyers at their home
avenswood. Chicago. as per agree,
Ient. Baum n Brandt was there I'm
ollet Prison on sentences of one year
nDosed In June. 1890.
Here the blue-eyed woman in Robelin
ue stod up and was identified by Gard.
sr.
related the Incidents OF sew.
meetings he had with the Movers.
ID Brandt, in which the Insurance
wlndlc was developed. He visited
in Joliet with DR.. and Mrs
In the Winter he and Brand;
i into trouble and left town.
He returned Feb. 2, 1891. and went to
Meyers house.
The doctor told him ~ n tovIal way
" $500 on the life OF Ludwig randi
the Equitable Company OF illinois
that he had given the policy TO his {
ltc. as n Christmas present. He had
Id her marry Brandt and was going out
'hlng some night with Brandt and
Brandt up with nitro-rlv"erlno. {
Meyer said the explosive would
ow Brandt into bits and cause no sus-
cion against any one. while poison
be detected In the stomach OF the
ctim.
in March DR.. Meyer suggested that
was a worthless fellow. who :
ought OF nothing but cigarettes, beer