The evening world., 1894-05-04
Dr., Meyers Informer Questioned
About His Letter. Writing.
Former Neishbors and Tradesmen
Testify Against the Prisoner.
All the Alleged COnspirators Posi-
lively Identified in Court.

tn,iCh OIL III me tiio u - aa~''J ~ -
Never was the thing hat interested
zach OF the very, very few favored ones
who succeeded in gaining admission to
part II. of the Court Of General Sessions
this morning.
from his old complaint Monday, direct
al that no one be admitted to the scene
If the trial except the counsel, news
| naper reporters and witnesses, and, rs
a consequence, scores of applicants for
admission to the courtroom are sent
away disappointed by the officers who
guard the entrance.
sCari Muller was recalled to the wit
ness stand this morning, to be ques-
TONED by Mr.. Brooke about the letter
he wrote to Lewis s. Chanler, of DR..
Meyers counsel, shortly after the for
mer trial, and when he was so anxious
that he wrote to DR.. Meyer, offering to
save him If he would get his lawyers to
secure his release.
Here is the letter to Mr.. Chanler,
written in English:
HOUSE OF DETENTION. Feb. rs, 1894.
l located Or. Meyer to the Mutual Life Insur-
sns Company July H.. 1898, under condition
that no questions should be asked OF me. and
that | should not be used as a witness against
him They did not keep that agreement, but
compelled me to go to New York, and kept me since
July 20, 1893, locked up at the House OF Deten-
ton. | would like to have my discharge out
OF this place and also my discharge out OF DR..
nnony In the matter and az 1 want my liberty.
respectfully yours, CARL MULLER.
The reward for locating DR.. Meyer was $500
paid to me- which l received on July H. lSes;
Here at the House of Detention. they decline
nv letters, and will not let me see my child
from on Dec. 30: 1898. My house In Chicago. at
- twenty fourth street. il closed. and the furni.
vifs's expenses, as they had promised, and I
have to give her money Of mine. They impris-
the state OF New York, and treated her badly
at the House OF Detention. CARL NiLLER
Henry levin, the dealer |. secondhand
furniture who bought the. furniture In
Muller and the Meyers moved out after
the funeral of Brandt. was called as a
witness. He Identified Muller from the
he bought the furniture.
Mr.. Brooke asked no questions, but
Juror Ascheim did, eliciting that the
witness found the single bed Brandt,sl
kltchen-a position which would permit
of Muller. II the kitchen, seeing Brandt
plainly.
Thomas W.. Lear identified Muller,
who rented a piano from his firm at Is
East Fourteenth street. The witness
said that he knew DR.. Meyer as j..
contract showed that the piano was
rented March s, 1892. Mr.. Brooke asked
no questions.
q man he saw in his brothers saloon,
IA First avenue, nearly every day for
two weeks in February and March,
\ Annie o'Hearn, of 1924 East Thir-
teenth street, but who lived at 800 East
Mrs. Meyer as one Of her neighbors in
1.-THE fiat in March. 1892. She knew her
Mrs. O'Hearn recognized Muller as one
Of the men she had seen there OCCASION
ally. =. oou v,,,
came home one day Mr.. Muller told me
Mr.. Baum was dead. l went up to the
aat later in the day, l found there Mrs.
H T, and u, MI ,,a Muller ca e. and h there seem was
light-complexioned man there. That Is
he said the witness, pointoing to DR..
Mrs. o'Hearn identified Brandt's
photograph as a picture of the dead
Baum, whom she had never seen in
life.
Zachariah Hermanson. a Waterman.
Of 25 DE Graw street, Brooklyn, ar
other old witness. came next to testify
that when he lived In Chicago in 1885,
N. he edited a Scandinavian newspaper
and knew Ludwig Brandt slightly dur
Ing 1889 and 1890 as an advertising agent.
He identified the photographs.
About March /, 1892, Hermanson met
Brandt unexpectedly at Bowling Green
and State street. in this city, and talked
Mrs. Isaacs, OF 1903 Third avenue.
Identified Muller as the purchaser of
furniture at her store in February, 1892.
person who appeared and made arrange
iments for reselling the furniture to her
In April. She had cause to remember.
came for the other IS which was due
her" Mrs. Isaacs also pointed out Or:
Meyer as the person who accompanied
Mr.. Brooke rather upset Mrs. Isaacs
by reading from her testimony In the
December trial, when she said that the
woman wore a veil over her face. and
replied in the negative. although DR..
Meyer sat directly in front of her then
as now.
Della Leach, the janitress of the fats
the several alleged conspirators.. VIM
mers (Muller) came down to the kitchen
Int he morning after the death Of Baum
liketo see the corpse. Mrs. Leach went
up and looked at he body
1T was awful. The eyes and mouth
were wide open," shuddered the JAM
Mrs. Ohearn testified similarly, and
Mr, Brooke made much Of 1t in decrying
the Witnesses Identification of the dead
man as the man they had seen only
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The visit to the house of death and
the statement that she talked to DR..
meyer after the funeral were additions
70 Mrs. Leach's former testimony. and
MI. Brooke made the most Of that, too,
coaching" the witness.
Katie Rupp, who keeps a furnished
room house at III Fourth avenue, rec
] ognized Muller as "Mr. August Win
mers," who called at her house with
another man CDR. Meyer at the end Of
march to rent a room for a lady. They
said the lady's husband had been dead
a couple of days, and Mrs. Rupp violated
her rules for the occasion and rented a
room to the lady. Muller was there
TWEnt days. DR.. Meyer called upon
Of course Mrs. Meyer was 1.-The lady"
Mrs. Run had testified that she once
rUead a note left by DR.. Meyer for "Mr,
Winners" and the Recorder had in
s1r9cted Mr.. Mcintyre hat Mrs. Run
eepuid not be permitted to relate what
i Lne note said until he had recalled. Null
sr and show that the note itself was
not In existence. when a recess was Or