The evening world., 1894-05-01
MULLER'S
LETTERS.

t'UNIVhei JTOW TVN fugt.D
squirting at Brooke. and holding his
nand up to his ear after each question.
Then, he would say he didn't know
didn't understand.
Did you answer questions YOU didn't
understand on the former trial?' asked
Brooke.
TO please Or. Meyer. I %suppose7"
10 please whom, them"
over many objections. Muller replied:
ITO please nobody"
II was plain that Muller was ratified.
The old lawyer was not slow TO follow
Muller. Letter to DR.. Meyer.
At this point Mr.. Brooke hurled his
first bomb. He slowly opened q paper
his handwriting. and IL SO. when he
wrote II. He said he wrote II last De-
cenbery in the. House. OF Detention.
Then Mr.: Brooke read a translation;
there be an error. Mr.. Brooke began!
That ain't r%isht-that Is old bad
"oid bad Man" began Brooke again.
II rave written to You often and have
sent two men to you to help you.
could not do better. You did not want
fused to save YOURSELF Besides l
from the New York L. |. c. 1 am.
Therefore, not Obliged to stick to you.
In spite of this I have only sworn
at%.nse sof had ID ever eve eV then Spoke to G me-
the whole case would have been settled.
For you see that without me they
have no case whatever. and they. can
offered to Flee.
Now. I tell you what I propose to do
with you. n you send your attorneys
only under 500 bal, and II I am bailed
out by somebody, then o will not he
punished. I will then also keep May
away"
miserable WY G'e on the stand. Mr..
Brooke continued the reading:
here as we'll as in Toledo. This is the
last OFFER which / make to you. At
heart ! am not your enemy, and you
know that l can make yon free; yours
The reading OF this letter caused a
sensation. The members OF the District
Attorneys stan flushed and looked wor-
MIR. Brooke next read a postal-card,
written in English by this fellow who
says that damaging admissions made on
didn't understand While reading the
translation of the letter, Mr.. Brooke
was corrected frequently by Muller. the
corrections. being only refinements OF
the effect a hair. The postal-card e
az follows:
Muller Writes T. Dr.. O'suIlivnn.
"Dr. O'Sullivan, Dear Sir: I want an
attorney to get out Of the House OF
Detention with my wife. II you wan,
my. case please call on us as soon as pos.
sible., You are the first one I have asked
and l will pay you as well as anybody
else. Please answer me II you get this
note Respectfully yours, ,r,,r,..
In another letter written by Muller to
Or. O'Sullivan the accomplice said he
would pay 800 to get his wife and i'm
self out of the House of Detention.
Then followed the reading of a
letter written in English by Muller and
addressed TO DR.. o'sulliyan. as follows:
They told me l should not say any
taken out of my house In Chicago b,
six Pinkertons and put in here agains'
my will. Nobody ever has showed m,
s Sosrd PnRsh5oi My IL T B4sok Tas put with, IN ! !
woman who was In with that Life In.
surance Company. They didn't pay hel
expenses as they had promised. and
our house.
I'm, Rochester. n. y. Mr., Julian
pulled her out of the train; and so a she
cate for eight and a half months, and
steps six times a day. Last Friday she
has been taken out OF here.
offered to XIII" the Case.
she will make complaint for falls.
me out of here I will pay 300 in casf
and VIII do all can to make you wiz
that will throw 1t out at once"
Did you write any other lettersT'
As s!Yes: "" one to Mr.. chanler: he asked
The handsome young lawyer looked w
in unmistakable surprise. and Muller
"a missionary who came to the Hous
OF Detention regularly-he told me Mr.
Chanler wanted me to write to him."
Muller. but ii contained nothing Of con,
sequence and was lost,
After going over the story OF the
division of the spells into four parts and
getting Muller to say again that he did
not know who got the fourth part In
the division, Mr., Brooke asked in that
wonderfully impressive, deep and sol
emn voice, so famous:
''ls Ludwig Brandt dend?"
dead as anybody" replied Muller, hur.
,"Havc you not, heard from, Brandt
since You have been confined In the
House OF Detention"
NO, SIT, ne Is uthl-Ht Is ithu,
Don't you know that the body buried
in Evergreen Cemetery on April 2. 1892.
was not the body of Ludwig Brandt?'
mo sir, | do not. | know II was the
body Of Brandt who had been poisoned
by Dr. Meyer"
Wanted Testimony In German
Mr.. Brooke next laid the foundation
for introducing a German interpreter
and a German stenographer. He got
Muller to say that he and DIR. Meyer and
Mrs. Meyer always talked German in
their conversations: that Brandt could
understand German and talk II, but
was too proud and always talked IN
in German In the meetings OF the quar-
tet.
The lawyer got Muller to tell what
language he and the others spoke In
each conversation that had been told
about In this trial.
Muller testified that he did not open the
blue package marked "Antimony." tha'
was given To him by Dr Meyer the day
before he and Brandt left for New York
'to give mOrDhinc to green Germans /.
their beer and rob them" when they
fell asleep. Mr.. Brooke read from his
former testimony. In which he said thai
he opened the blue package and saw in
It a white powder.
Denies His Former Testimony.
when YOU 'estihed to that on the