The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-04-19
NINE MEYER JURORS. NOW.
Berry and Hildebrand Mitchell
Added to the List.
Another New Panel OF Talesmen
Drawn This Morning.

Again that Banquo's ghost that will
not down. the story that Mrs. Mary
Meyer, indicted with DR.. Henry c. +.
Meyer for the poisoning Of Ludwig
Brandt, is about to make confession,
is told.
There Is not word OF truth in the
story" said John F. Mcintyre YEARLY
to-day. Mrs. Meyer has not confessed
or indicated any intention or desire TO
tically the same testimony as that offer
ed In the first trial"
AS for the Meyers, the doctor has
never but once before intimated that the
woman in the Tombs was his wife. the
term being used by him in yesterdays
talk about the assault made upon her
by a drunken woman prisoner at the
by the newspapers.
onGe the doctor, IN an interview with
an an Evening World" reporter, spoke of
but the very next time the reporter Wis
tied him he denied that she was his
wife, and denied that he had ever, ad-
tinst wife. who lives In Chicago. with her
daughter, and who. though she got a
divorce from him has written to him in
liz lr'e eHssi way While WILL ne was In the Tombs
ms fellow-prisoner wife" in spirit OF
| chivalry.
Inc tedlous work or searching for
jurors to try, DR.; Meyer vas resumed
| before Recorder Smyth to-day, with six
empty seats in the jury box. The frs,
one nnx to be filled is the seventh in the
Alexander b. Low In the first trial UNI
til in the midst Of Charles w. Brookes
| powerful plea for Meyer, Mr.. Low sud
| denly lost his reason and became a raw
| ing maniac.
| Sixty-four citizens were examined
for this chair yesterday, but none
was entirely acceptable to both sides.
Among those who offered excuses and
| who didn't want to serve on the jury
to-day was one man who could neither
read nor write.
Another new panel OF $50 jurymen
had been summoned to appear this
morning. About one in three Responded
to roll call, and they and the remnant
or the old panel waited patiently for
Samuel S. Berry, a travelling salesman
for the dry-Soods house Of Benjamin &
and sworn as the seventh juror this af-
ternoon.
Mr.. Berry is about th'rty-five years
old. He said he shouldn't like to render
his life. but that If sworn as n juror he
what the consequences. He lives at %
East Seventy-fifth street
Edward c. Arnold, manager In the
bible House. and living. at 1903 East
rhirty-tirst street, replied to the first
question with much earnestness:
II think the infiction of the death
penalty Is contrary. to divine law and
the divine will and against the divine
principle. Therefore | have conscen-
from rendering verdict of guilty. no
matter what the evidence"
over and over again Mr. Brooke OBJ
jects to this question as expressing an
Are YOU 50 prejudiced against cir;
not render a verdict of guilty even
guilt Of the accused beyond all reason
able doubt"
Mr.. Brooke insisted in each instance
absurd to say that he still had a pre-.
judice against circumstantial evidence,
while the man who distrusted circum-
stantial evidence could not be con.
WINGED by II.
De Voiney Everett. a salesman for the
East Seventy ninth street, went through
n searching examination, but was ex-
| Guided from the box by the peremptory
challenge Of the defense.
Recess.
The opposing counsel were in the
midst of wrangle over Citizen John
r. Rrodie. a designer for the Yonkers
a ast One eonndhSa e and @
when recess was taken. Mr. Brodie had
strong opinion, which he was sure
| would SUCK TO MN untll ne nad nearu
| evidence to change II, but he was pos
| tive that he could render his verdict
on the evidence submitted, alone, unin-
| fuenced and unaffected by his opinion.
| even though that verdict might conflict
with his opinion.
| Mr.. Brooke insisted that he was prom
| Using the impossible. but the Recorder
decided that the Juror was qualified.
whereupOn Mr.. Brooke objected. eX-
copied and then dismissed Mr.. Brode
with a peremptory challenge.
The eighth Juror was selected late this
afternoon. He Is John Mitchell, of the
fsr,,1 and ID a. East Fifty.sseconG
street. Mr.. Mitchell was the three hun
| dredth and eleventh citizen examined
| since the trial began a week ago.
William Hlderbrand, Of / Broadway,
| civil engineer and consulting engineer
| for Roebling & Sons, who built the
| East River bridge, was accepted as the
| ninth Juror