Show BRAJfDT IS ALIVE Some Startling Testimony in the Meyer Case New York May nDr OSullivan associate counsel in the defense of Dr Meyer received a letter from M J Bretz denying certain statements in the letter of Clerk Price of the county jail in Chicago The writer said Dr Meyer did not attempt to take his Bretz wife to Colorado Col-orado to poison her as Mr Price had stated I I have often been in the society of Dr Meyer Bretz wrote but there was no talk of poisoning anybody Now I want to tell you an important matter Brandt or Baum known as Wetzel is still alive I saw him in Phoenix Ariz about two months ago I met him in a saloon kept by a man called Palmer and we talked a great I deal Brandt said he was very badly off and had been in jail in Monterey Mexico for some time I was then out of work and could not help him The last time wrote Bretz I ever heard of Brandt was when I received a postal card from him dated Silver City N M He said that when he had enough money he would go to the City of Mexico He said Mexico was the best place for swindling people by means of counterfeit money mon-ey and there was not the slightest chance of detection or punishment I wish I had kept that last postal card As sure as there is a God in heaven Brandt is alive and you will surely hear from him but it will be after Dr Meyer is hanged Dr Meyer and myself did not part friends but if I were called on the stand I could tell a good many stories about him I you knew Meyer as well as I do you would know he could not poison anybody as he is too stupid and I could tell a good many stories about his stupidity The defense attached a good deal of importance to this communication The proceedings this morning were opened by recalling Frank Snyder the man who drove the hearse containing the body of Baum to Evergreen cemetery cem-etery The burial permit to which the name of Gustave Baum w attached was handed him He identified it The people rest said Mr McIntyre McIn-tyre Mr Brooke then read a long series of resolutions urging the court to dismiss dis-miss the indictment against Dr Meyer The recorder denied I Brooks motion mo-tion Mr Chandler for the defense began his argument upon reassembling after recess The witness called for the defense was Professor Henry P Loomis who described the symptoms of arsenical poisoning From Brandts symptoms as described by Mr Minden the witness concluded death was caused by dysentery dysen-tery Counsel for the defense gave out after af-ter adjournment a startling statement to the effect that the prosecution had attempted to bribe Mrs Meyer to turn states evidence failing in which she I a had confesson been drugged in an effort to secure |