The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-20
looks LESS LIKE SUICIDE.
,rcH NEW LIeHr ON MARrHA ,
FULLER's DEATH.

..,,. az . Careful Exsrnissston 81 the Law
omse wh.re she wss shot ..s OF IL.
.-i,i.. FROM the First Outsidsr- 60 Get 4,
..Dr. wc-;s. says the Ballet was Firrs
=, IN. GIri frem se.s Dt.t.nee-wh
r,,. chamber. t-pieed Stats. .t . Die
,.see tro-. the Body-A seceps A.top-y.
Ths Developments yesterday about the
.Aoo,ing OF Mas Martha J. Fuller in the ofices
A. LAWYER william Mullen at ia Nassau
,treet on Saturday afternoon tended greatly
"a strengthen the presumption that Miss
Tuller did not shoot herself
Yesterday. for the flrst time. the reporters
.ot ehsnce to examine carefully for them
elves the rooms In which the shooting oc-
,urted. the position Of the furniture. the place
,h.rs the body was found. the marks made By
,As bullet after 1t had passed through Miss
futers ssad. and the position Of the blood
,,,lns on the floor. They also had q chance to
t,lk z1rn ne persons who were first In the
room after LAWYER Joseph T. Magee. the only
PERSON other than Miss Fuller there ct the
time Of the shooting. had given the alarm.
The testimony Of these witnesses and OF the
plsee it,elf differed from that which had been
s.thersd on Sunday from Lawyer Maeee and
from other persons. including the police.
50 far - 10 now known the FIRST man to en-
Ter the room after LAWYER Mages raised the
alarm was Mr.. J. Frank Herman. who IL the
,dItor Of the Retda Liquor Dealer. and who has
an ONCE with Lawyer J. r. Riley on the third
Heor Of Nassau Chambers. imm ediatsly over
The ofices OF Mr.. Mullen. Mr.. Herman said:
AT about $40 on Saturday was prepared
togo home. I had my hat on. and was stand
Ing here At the door Of the room. talking with
nr. Riley and one or two Of the boys. when We
oil heard Q iarring Of the stsampipe or radi-
stor It sounded a. II the steam had Just
been turned on or OF. Nobody In our room
vas near the radiator. and I said. What was
thstr We all looked at the radiator. but
tnsre was no further sound. A few mo-
ments perhaps . minute or . minute and
q half, after this / babe Mr.. Riley good
Aisht and started down the stairs. the sls-
vstor having stopped running. heard moth
Ing up to the time that reached the nrst land
ing-that is. the floor on which Mr.. Mullsn's
Offices are. had started TO 20 down thsre
when heard MaRse. the managing clerk In
Mr. Mullsns ONCE. call out to two gentlemen:
Oh. gentlemen. won't you come and assist
nef They didn't pay any attention to him.
and didn't Then heard him call, 'Jani-
.n on AID ootins BACK saw hi% just ,as is.es
he called out: Won't you please come to my
dent In my ONCE
=. don't know Why, but the moment he said
that the noise We had heard . few moments
before up stairs had been . pistol shot I
tna ped back up the stairs two stsps at time.
hr. Aagee had started toward the once OF Mr.
Mullen and met MIN In the corridor. He said
tgain. Won't you give me some assistance2
There has been . terrible accident He APP
beared to be VERY much exeited-vsrJ much
iAitled..and said TO him: Now. Just calm
sSurs,sm d,. minute I'M aad tsll me what.
Won't you gone In with me, won't you come
fss.s = ~ Sss Sus keso ca., -. fg ms EN- ~
ne matter; tell me what has happsned'
ne ,sps going al the time toward the door OF
Mr. apllen,s once. WHICH was open. The mo-
psnt ! got IN there 1 smelled Eunpowder.
The door to the ONCE where the shootina oe-
suIred was about two steps from the door
Mr. huIsn's suite. looked In the door. and
sitlon."
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