The evening world., 1894-05-17
TO REACH The JURY TONIGHT.
S. mining Up in the Meyer Trial
Will End To-Day.
Recorder Smyth VIII Then Send the
Case 20 the Jury.

Clpal actors III tne tTidl Vi Dr' IisHis -
F. Meyer for the murder OF Lud-
wig Brandt gave promise this morn
that by or s o'clock this evening, the
case would be In the hands Of the jury.
Charles w. Brooke, who har talked
five hours to the jury on behalf OF DR..
Meyer, promised that he would con-
That would permit Col. Fellows TO
begin his reply at 2 o'clock, and the
Colonel said that he should not speak
more than three hours to insure which
he instructed Assistant District-Attor-
ney John f. Mcintyre to call him down
at exactly 5 o'clock.
Recorder Smyth said to an Evening
World" reporter, that II Col. Fellows
had concluded at o'clock he should
certainly charge the jury this evening.
and send them out to their celebrating
room.
It vas lI2O when the inexhaustible
flow OF Brooke's eloquence began again
with an attack, upon the identiiicati tion
Of the body exhumed from Evefgreens
PLANTATION on the alleged suspicious cir
cumstance that the Mutual Life lnsur-
ance, Company's agents procured per,
nit June 2S from the Newtown Board OF
taken to Kip's undertaking establish
ment till July G. eight days later.
Mr.. Brooke hnted that some one else
had already tnmpered with the body
anu IIItI II Nlln HTStlllC
When Snyder went to the Evergreens
Cemetery, armed with that permit to
open the grave and take away the body,
at O'Clock in the morning. July 9. lS92
he found the grave already opened. and
the casket containing the body outside
the grave. on the surface OF the earth
waiting for him. Who opened the
grave?" demanded Mr.. Brooke. indig-
" Snyder had in his hand the only. au-
thorlzation for opening this, grave. How
did the Superintendent OF the Cemetery
Who told him? Who welded such an
influence on him that he permitted the
grave to be opened without authority,
Who opened II? When was II Opened i9
other time? Had 1t been opened before
II there was some one who could induce
the Superintendent to open the grave
same subtle influence might have In
duced him to open the grave days be-
fore?
"There is one man who can tell you
up. Julian! There he sits in the third
row OF chairs. Julian has been the
spirit. the genius, the prime mover IN
this -rosecntion ths guiding star t,1s his
character for the guidance Of this jury;
why wasn't he called to the witness
ST. vi?
absolute conclusion, that II Mr.; Julian
had been called to the stand his testi-
mony would not have guided you to a
verdict OF conviction. but that his cross
examination would have guided you 10
an acquittal?'
Julian, the head OF the detective de-
partment OF the Mutual Life Insurance
Company only smiled on all this. w
"At the touch of the wand of this
man Julian even the graves OF the dead
are opened and give up their dead; If
It was possible for these secret Pinler-
ns to 1psn @a ha for them to
1t before that day. 1t would be easy to
inject into that dead body a few drops
Of the poisons to he found there later
| by the learned chemists.
"It does not require much Of n stretch
| of the imagination to believe that the
| men whose Infamous conduct at Home.
stead during the Carnegie strikes ap-
| palled the world are unequal to charg.
Ing dead body with poisons in order
to convict man OF murder and send
him to his death in the interest of and
to please their employers, the Mutual
itv was being tempted to the utmost
Kip, and Julian apparently had access
to that grave at any time and had COM
Mr.. Brooke concluded his address with
quotations from eminent jurists decry-
ing. and discrediting expert witnesses
and expert testimony, closing with:
IF this man Is to be convicted ant
condemned. 1t is uron the guess OF
these retained and paid expert witness
es. called In corroboration OF the al
legged accomplice and confessed criminal
| who has committed crime in nearly al
| its forms"
1t was a splendid effort, and Mr.
Brooke received the concentrations o.
many friends, including Col Fellows
effort OF his life, and Mr.; Mcintyre, Il
whose hard work Is due the strong cas-,
presented against DR.. Meyer.