The evening world., 1894-05-10
NEARING ITS CLOSE.
Prosecutions Case Against DR..
Meyer Almost Completed.
District Attorney Wellman Springs a
Column Question.
Hospital Patient Writes Ab,ut Fugi-
tive Witness Frank Burke.

The taking of testimony OF the scien-
lists was continued before Recorder
Smyth to-day In the trial of DIR. Meyer.
with a fair prospect of finishing up the
case for the prosecution before night
all.
The attending physicians and the un-
dertakers had proven conclusively that
the man who was sick under the name
of Baum was the man who died, was
buried and after three months resur-
rected for pathological. microscopica
and chemical examination.
The Psychologists and microscopists
had testified pretty conclusively that
such parts of the body as were not too
much decomposed had had no disease,
The chemists had testified that they
found anthony and arsenic in the
brain, heart, liver. kidneys, stomach, in
t%estines, the muscles OF the leg and
the distribution Of the poisons Indicated
that they were taken into the system
culated, and hat had the poisons been
inserted after death by the Pinkertons,
as the defense suggest, or by some one
disseminated through the body. -,
DR.. Charles l.. Peabody came to the
witness stand, this morning. as a med
ical and pathological expert, to say
from all the known facts about the Ill,
nesS, death. pathology and chemica!
analysis Of Brandt-Baum. what caused
his death
Evening World" 1t recited all OF thu
facts sworn to by the witnesses anc
asked at lis conclusion:
There being the facts, what In you
ODiniDp was the cause of deathv'
or course, the answer was that thu
patient died as the result Of arsenic
and antimony poisoning.
Mr.. Mcintyre, who carries the hurdei
OF tie prosecution, received a letter thi
morning from Frank Rosworth. st. Vim
cents Hospital" In which the write
him when witness Frank Burke disap
peared, he could have located the miss
He says Burke, who was a prisoner
in Cook County Jail in 1880 with DIR
Meyer, Muller, Brandt, Baum, Jacl
Gardner n the other conspiratore
and claims to have been in the insurance
swindle scheme with the rest, is nov
of Manly & Hills New World Company
season '92 and a." and hat his wife
Nine. Sanger, is known as "Carri
Sanger" n spiritualistic medium know
Brooke in reading sections Of the ny
potnetlcal question against Wnlci
he entered an objection, IL
wound up with an objection Il
the whole question on the groun'
that running all through 1t were fact
alleged only on the uncorroborated test
mony of the accomplish, Brandt. an
{ that the law would not permit the cor
sideration of that testimony.
Mr.. Wellman declared that every pal
D ticle of Brandt's testimony that ha
not been corroborated had been car,
5 fully excluded from the question. an
after a few notifications. principal
in the use of terms, the Re
I corder permitted DIR. Peabody to answe
$ It.
The cross-examinatiop of DR.. Peabod
6 by DR.. O'Sullivan. consumed all Of tn
forenoon session, DR.. O'Sullivan leadin
the witness a merry chase over all {
4 the branches Of materia medica, symi
t tons, subjective and objective. poiSo
and their effects, and diseases that pre-
E duce symptoms, and post-mortem effec,
: quite similar to those found in know
n cases of poisoning by arsenic or ant
mony, or both.
Q But DR.. ~Peabody's opinion as to tn
r cause of death in the case of Brand
was unchanged, unmodifed. the witnes
: returning to his first %rejoinder:
Some OF the conditions. detache
Q from the others. might indicate SON
disease, but all of the facts combine
{ convince me that this man died frol
arsenical n anthony poisoning. an
s could have died of nothing else"