The evening world., 1894-04-12
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.

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 IA 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
passioned 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 1902 West Eighty-third
street, collapsed, and in ten minutes was
a raving maniac. or course. that re-
suited in a mistrial.
The second trial was begun before
Recorder Frederick smyth. the same
Judge who presided at the trials of Car
lyle w. Harris and Dr.. 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
the alleged victim.
One might count on his fingers all of
the cases or vegetable poisoning In the
world in which conviction of the poisoner
has followed. There have been innumer-
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
nesses for the prosecution and by the
circumstantial testimony.
The story told from the witness stand
most startling in the annals OF crime. 1t
was briefly as follows:
DR.. Meyer. Carl Muller, alias VIM
j. ne Bau n;a' wife e paisane and in St the Sh M { e,
jail for various ,otfenses. concocted a
scheme to cheat life insurance compan:
les. Baum got into more trouble and
Meyer and Brandt secured four insur-
ance policies on the life OF Brandt, under
tibet name of Baum, using their com
and history.
Brandt and Mrs. DR.. Meyer appeared
before n Chicago clergyman and were,
Then Meyer. Mrs. Meyer, Brandt and
Muller came to New York, and Mrs.
Meyer and Brandt SCI pn ho%usekeeping
~ " n" III Il IlftIllh Sllttl.
Meyer and Muller hovercd near.
Brandt took morphine and emetics to
emaciate him and. make him Ill. A
called in to treat MIR. Baum.' Mean
while, DIR, Meyer tried to secure a dead
body from the Morgue, which was to be
whom Or. Minden was to be beguiled
into issuing n certificate of death. after
which. and a decorous funeral, the in
an aggregate of $500.
But DR.. Meyer was unable to procure
n cadaver. Then he tried to find some
would agree to 20 under the name of
Baum TIL death came. but that failed
also. Then Dr. Meyer: it. is alleged. be-
came desperate. and decided to surrep-
titiously introduce noison into the food
and medicine administered to his fel-
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
Aprll .. 1882.
Mrs, Meyer, in deep mourning, ap;
III '"r the name of Widow Baum sue
Ct led in collecting : 1900 from the New
York Life and $1,000 from the Washing
as her cousin" Tho Mutual and Etna
suspected something wrong and began
an Investigation. whereupon DR.: and
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
i 1as, s bstsm aEse1nSts So DR. wa Me Mnl,s in his Wiz, trial
Muller said he was cognizant of many
similar poisoning schemes of Or. Meyer,
slowly poisoning his servant, Mary
Ne'ss, that he Gluller) fell in love with
her. stolr her away and married her to
save her from death.
Assistant District-Attorney John F,
Mcintyre, who not only prepared, but
: presented the ironclad case against the
Meyers in the December trial, appears
as prosecutor again in this trial.
DR.. Meyer, who was taken from the
Tomhs to Part II. of the Court Of Gen
eral Session in the i;lack Maria this
= morning, IS represented by Charles w.
Brooke, the veteran lawyer, whose
fame as an orator is the countr| wide;
? Dr, W, J. O'Sulllvan, the Young lawyer
, who achieved fame a" a medical, chem,
zeal, toNiColoCical, legal and pathological
export in the Or. buchanan trial, and
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, an Aston
heir, with n large FORUM" ana n rcputa-
ton as an able lawyer.
t Mrs. Meyer, who was Jointly indicted
indicted with DIR; Meyer, nut who, Will
9 be tried separately, was not brought u
p court to-day. and will not be tin a jury
has been selected for the trial of her
. it was 1913 when DIR. Meyer was
called from the prison pen In the rear
of the courtroom 10 take his place be-
, fore the bar. The Doctor has actually
confinement. HIS color Is healthy, his
queer, gray eyes brighter, lie was
neatly dressed in "A suit Of black,
with n black frock Coat. He had had
. a clean shave, and his yellow mustacne
had attained Its natural growth.
Clerk William l.. Penny turned the
wheel OF fortune In which the jury bal
;, lots are hidden. and the FIRST slip draw
= out bore the name OF Samuel Levin. OF
Is Catherine street.
u Mr.. Levien Is perhaps siNty-four years
old. retired from business and "A property
owner. He had no bias and no preJu'
dice regarding the case, Col. Fellows
was sa tlsfied with him.
Mr., Brooke exaInined him. Nothing
n new was learned. At a nod from Col
q Fellows Mr.. Brooke said: "'Xscused by
consent, and Mr.. Le!m departed.
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