The evening world., 1894-05-12
DID she TRY SUICIDE?
Sensational Theory Regarding the
Dragging" of Mrs. Meyer.
Deputy Sheriff Leonard's Action TO
Be Thoroughly Investigated.
Police Chief Raitz, of Toledo, Brings
a Requisition for DR.. Meyer.

t~erizes the sensational story about the
%drugging of Mrs. DR.. Meyer with a
glass of wine, while she was on the way
from the Tombs to the Courthouse
yesterday. as rot" He says:
That story was gotten up by the de-
Tense to distract attention from the fact
that neither DIR. Meyer nor his wife
was put on the witness stand to deny
their connection with the poisoning of
Ludwig Brandt.
III they are in earnest, let them put
Mrs. Meyer on the stand to tell about
claim his innocence They viii not dare
to do 1t, for they know that it would en-;
able me to lay before the jury the record
Of the precious pair, with a trail of muir
ders and attempted murders by poison
all along the line
ing World reporter to-day. but Mrs.
Susie Schwab. who was taken from
the Tombs by Deputy Sheriff Leonard
at the same time with Mrs Never. said;
with us as far as Centre and Chambers
streets. waen she left us. Mrs. Meyer
asked Mr. Leonard. the deputy sheriff,
to walk around so she could get the air.
! don't know who proposed 1t. but we
went across the street to a pace IN q
other ladies'.
We each had a glass of claret.
Mrs. Meyer drank only one swallow.
Then we went across city, Hall Park
and bach again, and entered the Court
right then
An Evening World' reporter say Mrs.
Meyer at the time and noticed, nothing
unusual. She was laughing and talking
With Mrs. Schwab, who Is a dressmaker
al 235 Fast Thirty-tifth street, and is
charged with larceny.
Deputy Sheriff Leonaru went to Sing
Sing with prisoners this morning.
II don't know anything about It ex-
Mrs. Schaepner came to me, excited;
She said they had been trying to Kill
~ Went over to Mrs. Meyer in the
courtroom. Her head lolled to, one
side and her eyes were half closed;
She opened them at my request and
symptoms OF sunstroke, as described by
Chicago Jack Gardner, as resulting to
the negroes and 'longshorenen he and
Brandt gave nitro-glycerine to in
THE idea suggested itself to me that
the woman had been dosed. perhaps with
thick. She could hardly a~rticulate, and
her mind seemed wandering,
w know that they have done every
thing possible to persuade Mrs. Meyer
to confess. She has nothing to confess,
but we know that they have had a
stool pigeon in the Tombs with her on
some fictitious charge to try n get
some sort of a statement from .irs.
Meyer that they might use as a confess
sion"
Mrs. Schwab, as stated, has been in
the Tombs about two months. She Is
under four indictments for larceny; and
she denied to an Evening World re-
porter this morning that she was a
stool-pigeon, and said that Mrs. Meyer
had never talked with her about her
trouble, except to say that a man had
come to see her from the Mutual Life
Insurance Company.
AS Mr.. Mcintyre potnts out, any,
statement made by Mrs. Meyer, unless
made voluntarily on the witness stand,
would be valueless. It could not be
used against Or. Meyer, and; therefore;
the suggestion Of d%rugging her seemed
absurd.
Mir. Julian. Of the Mutual Insurance
Company detective department; sug-
druGgcd it might be for the purpose OF
carrying out the suggestion Of Or. Meyer
to her in Il letter written In German to
her her while i ne ;n was " 5s a Ir'I H 3 nere ana
This letter is now famous. It did not
suggest suicide directly. but said that If
Mrs. Meyer felt that she no longer de-
sired to stand with her husband she
"Do it, and you know how gladly
Mary Victoria and Blondy p. Will be
Victoria and Blondy We're the chill;
dren Of DR.. and Mrs. Meyer who had
As for the letters received by Brooke,
O'Sullivan and Chanler, and purporting
an old pal OF DR.. Meyer, Mr.. Mcintyre
showed a sworn statement signed by
York. and said that Bretz knows that
Ludwig Brandt is alive, and that he
saw him in New Mexico twenty months
months later-all since the time Of the
alleged murder OF Brandt.
Mr.; Mcintyre says that Bertz Is a
rigger," and he is now in Chicago.
The sworn statement Of Bretz. taken
two or three months ago, could only be
useful In the event Of the appearance OF
,Bretz swears tina DR.. Meyer EN-
ployed him to take his second wife Cth'
widow Geldeman) to Denver, and Their,
poison her to death with sugar OF lead
!, Bretz was known there as Michel. H.
took the woman to Denver, but she sus
pected him and returned to Chicago. I
t D DrS Meyer ies Was tried and YV acqult ted ' 81,
afterwards married Malok: ne got a di
, vorce from her and she nov has anothe
husband. Dr. Meyers nfteen-year-ol'
Mrs. Malok has q fortune of $50, 900, got
It is said, at the death OF her first hus
band, Geldeman, who was poisoned 4
q death. according to the story, by DR.
. Sherin Sexton was Indignant when h
heard the story of how the new deput.
{ had t~ransgressed the rules by taking hi
prisoner into a saloon. He despatched
. messenger to hunt Leonard up, and said
; Il shall investigate this matter, an
: II l find that Deputy William Leonar'
; has t~ransgrcssed the rules. / shall Ger
> tainly dismiss him. No supposed pull
could save him"
n Curiously enough, William. Leonarc
o was appointed a deputy sheriff In plac
E OF a man who was dismissed for takinI
u DR.. Buchanan into a saloon during tn
doctors trial Leonard lives in a fur
nished room at 100 Prince street.
Ben Raitz. Chief OF Police Of Toledo
o., arrived in town this morning wit
requisition papers signed by Coy. ,Mckin
a ley, of Ohio, and countersigned by GOV
s Flower, and calling for DR., Meyer, ALA
Hugo Weller, alias A. A. Mealsona, VIII
n IL wanted in Toledo for Poisoni1s MR.
WIN took the place OF Mary Neiss afte