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

touch off In the trial OF Dr. henry u. II.
Never was the thing that interested
each of the very. very few favored ones
Who succeeded in gaining admission to
part II. Of the Court of General Sessions
this morning.
The Recorder, who suffered much
from his old complaint Monday, direct
I'D that no one be admitted to the scene
NJ the trial except the counsel, news
! paper reporters and witnesses, and. as
1 a consequence, scores of applicants for
admission to the courtroom are sent
] away disappointed by the officers who
! guard the entrance.
a. Carl Muller was recalled to the wit
stand this morning, to be ques-
s,tloned by Mr.; Brooke about rSa the letter ter
eNeyer's counsel, shortly after the for
Nher trial, and when he was SO anxious
gko get out Of the House of Detention
Nave him il he would get his lawyers to
.sbecure his release.
II Here is the letter to Mr.. Chanler,
in English:
4. HOUSE OF DETENTION. Feb. 2!. 1885,
y I located DIR. Meyer to the Mutual Life Insur-
ice Company July IL, 1893, under condition
at no questions should be asked OF me, and
inn. ! they rhey'u aid d0' not q keep asep that s Mreen but
compelled me to go to New York, and kept me since
July 20; 1893, locked up at the House Of Deten.
tlun' 4 "ouiu lht HANt my Sc ous
Meyers case. as l decline to give any more testi-
R FS.5eo II the v matter and as I c xan. ny llfs,t''
The reward for locating DR.. Meyer was $500
paid to me. which l received on July 10. 1898:
Here at the House of Detention. they decline
to pay any OF my expense, they do not answer
i9yn lS su Dec. and %. III I'll. nS NJ let sou m' ,s see cn %s eA' u
.1a Twenty-fourth street. is closed. and the furni-
ture are disappeared. They do not pay my
~ ANNaraa. NJ Nka kAl N1r,laA a-I \
have to give her money Of mine. They impris-
oncd her after they knew that she never was in
II S' ,s ssA' HOUSE o. New of p sSl y an' e sItRisa a e. Saa''
Henry Levin, the dealer in secondhand
furniture who bought the furniture in
the fiat 800 East Thirteenth street hwen
Muller and the Meyers moved out after
witness. He Identified Muller from the
witness stand as the man from whom
he bought the furniture.
Juror M5i Riefaf odd did. elicitaing that the
witness found the single bed Brandts)
standing with the foot towards the
kitchen-a position which would permit
Of Muller, II the kitchen. seeing Brand
Thomas w. Lear identified Muller.
DR.. Meyer and Mrs. Meyer as the party
Tho o. rented Ete a piano st from his Tss firm Witness at ~
Baum in that transaction. The lease
contract showed that the piano was
rented March 8, 1892. Mr.. Brooke asked
Alfred Englebach Identified Muller as
a man he saw in his brothers saloon,
24 First avenue, nearly every day for
Annie o'Hearn, of s24 East Thir-
tenth street. but who lived at $40 East
Mna. MeSer a ssFe ens Of n her lsSz n;eis sSf@1ahf IN
the fiat in March, 1892. She knew her
as Mrs. Baum.
Mrs. O'Hearn recognized Muller as one
Of the men she a seen there OCCASION
II found Grape on the door when I
came home one day. Mr.. Muller told me
Hat later in the day: 1 found there Mrs.
Baum and Mr.. Muller, and there was
Mr.. Baum in the casket. l had seen a
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
Zachariah Hermanson. a Waterman,
Of H5 De Graw street, Brooklyn, an
other old witness, came next to TESTIFY
%. he edited a Scandinavian newspaper
and knew Ludwig Brandt slightly dur
ing 1899 and 1880 as an advertising agent
He identified the photographs. uo,
ttDoul NaICh i, lO'-, iiSi $40
Brandt unexpectedly, at Bowling Greer
and State street, in this city, and talked
with him a few minutes.
4 Mrs. Isaacs, of 100 Third avenue
furniture at her store in February, 1892
She also recognized in Mrs. Meyer thu
person who appeared n made arrange
ments for seselling the fur n rsms to ne!
for 1.-The lady took 81 down and never
came for the other IS which was du'
her" Mrs. Isaacs also pointed out pr
Meyer as the person VINO
Mr.. Brooke rather upset Mrs. Isaac
\ by reading from her testimony IN n
December trial VIII oy she sal said ,nat a tn,
when asked II she saw the man In conr
y'replied in the negative, although Dr
! Meyer sat directly in front of her the'
Della Leach, the janitress of the hat'
no East Thirteenth street, identified
the several alleged conspirators., Vim
mers tMuller) came down 70 the Sl Raln
NJ RrandD and asked Mrs: Leach II sheI
lketo see the corpse. Mrs. Leach wen
up and looked at he body.
1T was awful. The eyes and mout!l
We're wide open" shuddered the JAM
tress.
Mrs. Ohearn testified similarly, an
Mr.. Brooke made much of 1t in decryin
the witnesses Identification of the dea
man as the man they had seen oni
once or twice In life.
The visit to the house of death an
the statement that she talked to ID
Meyer after the funeral were addition
70 Mrs. Leach's former testimony, an
Mr.. Brooke made the most Of that. to-
suggesting that some n had bee
coaching" the witness.
Katie Rupp, who keeps a furnishe
room house at III Fourth avenue, re-
.ognized Muller as "Mr. August VIII
mers.' HI called at her house wit
another man CDR. Meyer at the end
March to rent a room for a lady. The
said the lady's husband a been dea
Z couple OF days, and Mrs. Rupp violate
her rules for the occasion and rented
room to the lady. Muller was thel
eg,Sht days. DR.. Meyer called upo
OF course Mrs. Meyer was the lady
Mrs. Run had testified that she on!
read a note left by DR.. Meyer for IN
winners" and the Recorder had /
strnGGted Mr.. Mcintyre that Mrs. Ru
could not be permitted to relate VIII
,ne note said until he had recalled. MI
nr and show that the note itself W
dered.