The evening world., 1894-05-10
Mr.. CHAMBERS JOKE.
It Came Near Causing a Sensation
in Dr.. Meyers Trial.
Alleged Proposition for Plea Of
Guilty Of Manslaughtsr.
Mr.. Mcintyre Refuses Il and Mr..
Chanler Says He Was Testing.

There was a little futtering sensation
to break the monotony Of the Meyer trial
this afternoon. 1t was a tender babe,
and 1t died young, living less than an
hour.
The report got out at recess that Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler. of DIR. Meyers coun-
sci, had asked Prosecutor Mcintyre II he
would accept a plea of manslaughter in
the first degree from DR. Meyer.
Mr.. Mcintyre confirmed this report.
For manslaughter. DR.. Meyer might be
sent to Sing Sing for twenty years.
Mr. Brooke said on the subject:
e" don't know anything about It. Mr..
Chanler had no authority TO make any
Perhaps il was some jest or badinage
on Mr.. Chanler's part.
Mr.. Chanler came into court late. He
was much astonlshed to learn OF the
sensat tion he had unconsciously created.
There's not word Of truth in 1t.
As we We're leaving the courtroom
said to Mr.. McIntyre:
NJ guess won't open the case this
afternoon. Mac?'
%. No, we win hardly hnish,' he re-
How would you like us to offer a
plea of manslaughter In the first de-
gree? s.ss1 w,,o, ,s rsr,,sa. y wouldn't take
"'I guess you wouldn't, either, and I
guess we wouldn't offer it, made re-
Il had in my mind the questions
asked by some of the Jurors. which
seemed to me to indicate Il feeling in
! our favor. and the idea in my mind was
| that Mcintyre would like to accept
plea of any kind to- get out OF It,. 1t
was only a joke, and there was nothing
that could possibly be twisted into an
Dr. Charles l.. Peabody came to the
witness stand, this morning. US a med
ical and pathological expert, to say.
from all the known facts about the III;
analysis of Brandt-Baum. what caused
Ills death
Mr.. Welman read hypothetical cues
Evening World 1t recited all OF the
facts sworn to by the witnesses and
asked at its conclusion:
opinion was Hshs tRe Cause sau aefS Of desth
OF course, the answer was that the
patient died as the result of arsenic
and antimony poisoning.
Mr. Mcintyre; who carries the burden
of the prosecution, received letter this
morning from Frank Bosworth, st. Vim
cents Hospital" in which the writer
him when witness Frank Burke disap-
/ peared, he could have located the miss
Ing man: , u.,o ,. u,,o.o,
Meyer, Muller. Brandt. Baum, Jack
Gardner and the other conspirators,
and claims to have been in the insurance
THe sohsme M f. WV hs Tss msnassS
OF Manly G. Hills New World Company
season '92 and a." and that his wife
Nine. Sanger, IL known as Carrie
Sanger" a spiritualistic medium known
all over the country.
Half an hoIr was occupied by Mr.
) Brooke In reading sections Of the ny
J pothetical question against which
h,o,,na he entered an objes,iion; io1;,, He Hise
the whole question on the ground
that running all through It were fact.
alleged only on the uncorroborated testi
mony. of the accomplice, Brandt, ant
that the law would not permit the con
sideration of that testimony.
Mr.. Wellman declared that every par:
not been corroborated had been care:
fully excluded from the question. and
after a few notifications, principally
in the use Of technical terms, the Re-
corder permitted DIR. Peabody to answer
The cross -examinat ton Of DR.. Peabody
by DR.. O'Sullivan. consumed all of thu
forenoon session, DR.. O'Suliivan leading
the branches of materia medica, symp
tons, subjective and objective. poison.
and their effects. and diseases that pro
duce symptoms. and post-mortem effect.
cases of poisoning by arsenic or anti
But DR.. Peabody, opinion as to th'
@ cause Of death @ in the ca case Of Brand
returning to his first rejoinder:
" Some of the conditions, detached
from the others. might indicate some
eonynee oas e msn de%
arsenical and antimony poisoning. anc
could have died Of nothing else"