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II don't understand" said Muller,
at Brooke, and holding his
Then, he would say he didn't know
whether he swore to hat or not he
didn't understand.
Did you answer questions you didn't
understand on the former trial." asked
Brooke;
ITO please DR.. Meyer, I suppose'"
ITO please who, them"
Over many objections, Muller replied:
T please nobody"
1t was plain that Muller. was ratified.
The old lawyer was not slow to follow
up the advantage he had gained.
Mu1ler's Letter to Dr.. Meyer.
At this point Mr.. Brooke hurled his
first bomb. He slowly opened q paper
his handwriting, and II so when he
wrote It,. He said he wrote IT last De-
cember, In the. House of Detention.
asking Muller to correct him should
there be an error. Mr.. Brooke began:
"Old Fool'-
That amt rtght-that is old bad
man" Interrupted the squirming'
"Old Bad Man. began Brooke again.
II have written to you often and have
never received any answer. I have also
could not do better. You did not want
to save yourself in Detroit, Tor you re-
fused to save yourself Besides tha e oo !
f fpomd t Ge' New sest york received [. I. co. the I 'i a@.
therefore, not obliged to stickt o you.
In spite Of this / have only sworn
against you inthe courtroom. II your
the whole case would have been settled.
For you see hat without me they
have no case whatever, and they. can
not do you any harm. don't want to.
offered to Flee.
Now. 1 tell you what I propose to do
only under 500 bail, and il I am bailed
out by somebody, then you will not be
punished. 1 will then also keep May
That's, my wife" INTERRUPTED the
Brook continued the reading:
here ma as Well ys as IN VII Tole Tin t hhis v is fhs
last offer which I make to you, At
heart | am not your enemy, n you
know that 1 can make you free: Yours.
The reading of this letter caused a
sensation. The members of the District
stan flushed and looked wor-
ried.
MIR. Brooke next read a postal-card,
in English by this fellow who
says hat damaging admissions made on
the other trial were made because he
didn't understand. While reading the
translation of the letter, Mr.. Brooke
was corrected frequently by Muller. the
being only refinements OF
the English translation. not changing
the effect a hair. The postal-card read
as follows:
Muller Writes to DR.. O'sullivan.
"Dr. O'Sullivan, Dear Sir: / want an
attorney to get out Of the House Of
Gaze nlaaS 90 call on III n q Gnnn n q NOS.
sible. You are the first one I have asked
and / will a o as well as anybody
else. Please answer me II you get this
nc s6ec. Rs e. 81. yS GuFsk, MULLER"
In another letter written by Muller to
,o'Sullivan the accomplice said he
pay 500 to get his wife and him
self out Of the House of Detention.
Then followed the reading Of a
letter written in English by Muller and
to DR.. O'Sullivan, as follows:
They told me I should not say my
taken out of my house in Chicago by
six Pinkertons n put in here against
my will. Nobody ever has showed me
any papers, Ny wife was put in a
who was in with that Life In
surance Company. They didn't pay her
expenses as they had promised, and l
sent her back to Chicago to look after
our house.
I'm. Rochester, n. ". Mr.. Julian
pulled her out Of the train, and so she
got put in here. In here she was deli
for eight and a half months, and
they made her walk five fights of
has been k out OF here.
offered to "KiIT' h Case.
'she will make complaint for false
me out of here l will pay 800 in cash
and will do all / can to make o win
the case. will make you a statement
will throw 1t out at once"
did you write any other letters"'
asked Mr.. Brooke.
Yes; one to Mr.. Chanler; he asked
The handsome young lawyer looked up
In. unmistakable surprise, and Muller
added:
"a missionary who came to the House
Of Detention regularly-he told me Mr.
Mr.. Chanler did receive a letter from
but 1t contained nothing Of con-
sequence and was lost,
Of the spoils into four parts and
Muller to say again that he did
know who got the fourth part in
the division. Mr. Brooke asked In that
wonderfully impressive. deep and sol
emn voice, so famous:
rs Ludwig Brandt dead?"
Yes, sir, he Is. ! am positive. AS
dead as anybody" replied Muller. hur-
Iltuly, ~HeTNOubly.
Have you not heard from Brandt
since you have been confined in the
of Detention"
mo, sir; he is dead-he Is dead"
Don't you know that the body buried
In Evergreen Cemetery o. April 3, 1892,
was not the body of Ludwig Brandt?"
N sir, / do not. ! know II was the
body Of Brandt who had been poisoned
by DR.. Meyer"
To "A Testimony In German.
Mr.. Brooke next laid the foundation
for introducing a German interpreter
and a German stenographer. He bot
to say that he n DR.. Meyer and
Mrs. Meyer always talked German in
their Conversations; that Brandt could
understand German and ak 1t, but
was too proud and always talked in
although the others answered
N the meetings of the quartette.
The lawyer got Muller TO tell what
language he and the others spoke In
each conversation that had been told
about in this trial.