The evening world., 1894-05-14
TRIAL MAY END TOMORROW.
Testimony in DR.. Meyers Behalf
Nearly Finished
The Prisoners wife Not in Court
This Morning.


for poisoning Ludwig Brandt to death
Is dra wing to Tvs end charles w
Brooke. chief OF counsel for the defense
said that the testimony In behalf Of DR.
Meyer would he concluded to-day. To-
morrow. then. would see the end
OF the trial
For the hrst time since the trial began
Mrs. Meyer was not IN court to-day.
Sh" had been taken from her Tomus
cell to court each. day, 80 that the
might identify her as the woman they
had seen at various stages OF the con
spirncies, so clearly woven. There being
no more of these witnesses. The neCes-
sity FOR her presence ~aa past
For the sake OF Deputy Sh, riff william
Leonard II would have been well II she
had not been called to court on Friday
last. Leonnrd's associates on Sheriff
Sexton y staff say that he has not been
seen about the Tombs since the story got
out that he took Mrs. Meyer and Mrs
Schwab another prisoner into the
Rathskeller Friday morning. ana bought
them Clar"t wine.
A friend of Lcona:d says. however
TINT Leonard save that Ails. Meyer tod
him That 'h" was weak and iainting.
That she had had no breakfast. and i'm
p.oreh him to get ,ur Of black coffee
Tor her. That ont Of humanity he took
her.
The story OF pr. O'Sullivln. Of Meyers
counsel. that the woman wis drugged
he denounces as false and riiicul us
Mrs. SChwab says, however. that Mrs
Meyer did not hhvc black coffee, but
, drank one swallow of Cllr"t.
The Crosse examination Of br. Henry
7. Loomis, an expert called by tho dc
, fense to testify that the symptoms Of
Branlt Indicated diaoaao. not poisoning,
and that the body when ,eXh,rmed was
too far dccnmposcd for pathology or any
Other ology to find ont what killed him,
WAS continued to-day by MIR. Wellman
Dr. Loomis said that his reasons for
come from mllnriOus district he had
an attending physician who did not
dlsIoVer poison symptoms; IN" patient
/ had no severe pains In the stomach he
! had n high temperature. and no vomit-
ing had he had acute arsenical poison
Ing h" would have died in four or five
! after death, the organs were in such n
| condition of far advanced deComposi-
tion as they could not have reached
had thcr" been arsenic in them, for the
arsenic would have preserved them.
/ NJ. Wellman read from Dr. Minien's
testimony that Brandt cDmpla inel OF
palms In the abdomen.
That's just IT," interrupted Dr. Loo
! toms OF the disease which pr Minden
d'agnosed. while pains in the stomach
would he SYMPTOMS of poisoning,
The cross examination only served to
bring forth lDr. Loumss logical argument
In defense of his original proposition
and to demonstrate to tho jury that he
Or. John NJ Byron. 222 East Fifteenth
street. who testified on the former trial
of Dr Meyer. f'll2wcd pr I.oomis on
pathological anl physician of ac!<nowl-
edged ability. His examination had only
begun when II recess vas ordered.
pr. Byron rellici t" the Hypothetical
died OF disease. not poisoning, and gave
at length and with much particularly
his reasons, for that belief. col. Fellows
cross-eXamIned him hut did not shake
him OFF ns AN oppun"nt Of this experts
call for the prosecution.
Albert n. White. Superintendent of tho
city MorEue for III" past twenty-five
yenrS followed DR. Byron on the stand
lie, snd hat In his experience he had
had 10000 dead bodies under his ohser-
walton In the Morguc
Keeper Whit" described the methods
in vogue In the Morguc in making iden-
| tifcation easy. Notes are made OF
every article of clothing. jcwelry and
other belongings of the unknown dead,
as well as OF the tattoo marks. scars,
and other peculiarities of the dead. He
said he had been present at many iden-
| tihcations, and had seen many cases
OF mistaken ident'flcntions by sorrowing
Having thus qualified the witness as
an expert" Mr.. Brook" showed Il pho
tograph to him.
He said 1T was tn" picture Of n body
| in the Morgua IN lsSs woman came
with tlntpyc OF her husband, who had
! disappeared lie compared the two pie
lures and promptly identified the pho
tograph as that of her husband.
| The body had been taken out of the
river md had been already buried in
| Potter's field. The woman had the body
exhumed and rcburiel in her own lot in
! Calvary Cemetery.
A few DAYS later she visited the Black
well = Island PenItentiary and found her
husband there, Il prisoner at work.