ATROCIOUS MURDERS.
A Nice Conspiracy. ■■
: The New York correspondent of . theyigjr sends the following!—'".:; s Another ecoundvel has j ustbeen coil- • y victed of mnrder under the most at- " • I rocious eircustances. ; His name is ■ i Meyer,-and lie conspired with : a man 1 t named Bj-andt, to insure the life of f the latter and defraud the'insuraneb ■ ' II company by the following' scheme: '' —Meyer who was a doctor, Was to administer poisons to Brandt and, make him very ill; ah'outside 3pcf;'.. tor would bo called in .to ti'cat Ilmrid t .V • who was to grow worse and worsaas time went on. A corpse would bo procured, and 6ome night Brandt , would be taken from tliebed andthe ; T corpso put in'' his place. WoM would V then bo sent, to tho outside and in. , .. ' nocerit doctor who would icoin'o and i-\ give a death certificate, and after' I that the gamo would be an easy one, ; Meyers wife was in the conspiracy; ' 1 she would dress in black and person-.; i . ate. the dead man's: widow and collect tho insurancomonoy< Tliero ' [ was a fourth pei-son, named' Muller '' [ who wns in the conspiracy and I consequently the money would i be; divided into i four parts, It ■ r turned out that there wns diflii culty in procuring' a', corpse,' ■ andsothoothorcqiispirators deliberi ately poisoned to death tlioir con- -. i federate, Brandt, and undertook tho ! collection of the money.- There was a hitch in the matter, the insur-,-,,, i mice company was suspicious, it having, been ascertained that Mover and his including'l!l|^fS^'~'' had played the same trick several times in other cities, and wero making a good living- by it. Muller becanio alanned, 1 arid gave: the game away, and the arrests oßleyer and his wife followed. Mrs • Moydriil : 1 now to be tried, and tlio prosecuting othcers say that to evidence agains her is overwhelming., At'onetimo she promised;,to turn State's evidonee against ( her husband, but was dissuaded from doing so by some ' sentimental women, who visited V her in-prison and told her it • .was not : good form for a wife to aid in sending herliusband to the gallows. Evidence brought, out on . . thoj trial. showed that the Meyers If: liavo been guilty of five or six mm 1 - dei-s of this sort,. and.in more tlxan : onejinstauco they havo killed their fellow -conspirators \vheii v were not convenient 'hnd'elieap:T-A curious circiinistanco iii that thd'V : velation of tliis nffau* is due to'l6v(i, r ; : , andthisis the w'aypf it,. The Movers andjMuller lived together,; and took . • ' into; their service 1 a voung.wniL» :• J whom they intended,to -insure ihidft' • i then poison.- The ihsnrancohad been c ;l .obtained, and the poisoning was ■ fibout to. talye. place, when Muller ' fell m lo\ e a ith tlm' gnl, spn ited hei away from .the nest of. murderers, of > ■- whom ho was .one, and then married' ■ hoi.} i.TJien.ihe camo iforwtadand ;,«• .exposed the whole performance, l andhis ivifp was one.of the witnesses at the leceut trial, Here is materia} ' for a romance,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4777, 19 July 1894, Page 2
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500ATROCIOUS MURDERS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4777, 19 July 1894, Page 2
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