The evening world., 1894-04-03
Dr.. Cutter Used a Solution
OF Mercury When Called
to Miss Fuller.
BUT SAW NO POWDER MARKS.
He Declares He Also Unbuttoned
the Glove on Her
Left Hand.

| The inquest into the death of Martha
D. RULER. the Typewriter who was shot
through the brain in William NJ Mullen's
law Office, ia Nassau street on tn,
afternoon of st. PatriCk's Day, was con.
| tinued before Coroner FitzDatriCk TO.
day.
suspicion pointed to JOSEPH Il. Magce
the managing clerk, who was the onI,
other person present at the time of tn,
shotng, and he has been in the Tomb,
ever since
iacts; The pistol was his and had been
Kept in his desk. unloaded. Miss Fuller :
friends said she had complained that
Magee was disagreeably attentive TO
her. She was maiden OF twenty-eight.
pure and religious. The autopsy of br.
Conway, Coroner's physician, found
that the bullet entered the left temple.
and when found the dying girl had a
glove on the left hand, and she WIS
dressed forthe street
Ihere was no apparent motive for
suicide. There was missing towel from
the lavatoTy in the corner of the office.
There was no apparent reason why the
elri ei should stay, In the office so late on
me Saturday half-holiday, aud espe-
cially as she had invited visitors to din
her and should have been at hcr home
an hours ride distant to meet the
guests at o'clock. She was shot at
about DO
The pistol was not seen by the first
person who entered the place after the
shooting, and was picked off the floor
Snrso SIX or eight minutes later by another
two pools OF blood. as If the girl had
peen moved after she had fell
IL was said that chair stood in the
ttradeey. occurred, as if Magee and Miss
euler hAd been conversing there. and
.hat mat chair was supplanted by II
revolving bookcase later presumably by
hngee to destroy evidences against him
There We're no burns powder marks on
MISS Fuller's face, indicating that the
pistol was held at a distance Of eighteen
inches or more from her head
The inquest discloses that the towel
girls face, and afterw ards it went away
With the r. body, binding her hands to-
hysterical spell in the Office two weeks
before, and was high strung and nervous.
1t was shown that even though the
nis' witness and the, second did not see
" ~ the room with Magee, so that he
must have been discovered had he placed
the plstoi where 1t was found.
y second and more careful nutOpsv
showed that the bullet entered the right
temnle, and, although there We're no
burns nor powder marks, as the room
Is hut I lI2 feet wide. and the course
or the bullet is easily proven to have
been directly across the room from south
to north. and parallel with and close up
to ihe hrSt window. It is difficult to
place the shooter between the young
woman standing In front of the rad-
at"r in the middle Of the room. and the
south wall. because of the presence there
of her own desk.
half
the scene one, two and three minutes
after the first witness. III Il sec the re-
volving bookcase in its usual place
In the corner. and 1t weighed 147 pounds,
and would not be easy for one person
to lift II over the body of the dying
girl and put it in thep lace where ii
habitually stood.
II was shown that Miss Tullor's face
was wiped OFF and wiped again by the
persons who visited the scene, ana the
defense claim that this might have re-
moved the evidence of the shots having
been made at close range
Detective Webb was recalled to the
stand by Mr. Brooke this morning. and
added another c%cus. for that ''reasOuu-
accused by drawing out that there wcr"
blood spots on the pistol after the shoot
ing, the contention Of the defense being
thht thht this intirat"d that the pistol was
Policeman John Murphy came next
Between $50 and 5.45 ] stood at Park
Row AMI Ann street when n man told
me a, young woman had sho, herself u,
visited the scene and found Ohicer Nc
Cabe there. His testimony was valuahl"
only in fixing the time, ana he finally
concluded that i was SO when he was
notified by MIR. Herman Of the TRAGEDY
DR.. James y. cutter, the ambulanC"
surgeon for Chambers street Hospital
* call came to the hospital at 5.5l
o'clock responded ] found Mise
Fuller lying on her back, hrr4thius
pcr pGr",HinG ,nI SfHt"%IpS bor NrIt 'o;J%
buttons, turned the top down on the hand
and felt her pulse. Cloths w"rr
brought anl water, u put hi-chloridg
vi woshra '''niS my w"urds" "0 "a5rr Gave f"r her
It hyperdcrmic Injection of whisFry Shr
was dying, and left her, Thcr" w"r" .
number Of people in the room, ~;
The girls hat was still on her head
nnd ! removed II. Tho wound on thr
rteht sidg was h!e@dIinF freely, ThFt on
rlnttar having c!oEged it up"
In your opinion wuuI the use ot
the solution mad" by YOU, in washing
ne wounds, r%mn,S Po.wEler sta,rs If
Dr. cutter thought not. lie cxomin,a
supcrhcially lGr powder marks before
%ash,ng, tn wounds, ana saw none
II was he who plnc,d the fatal bullet
on the trpcwri,,r's desk
Or O'Su'liVan Cr1-H-cNaminHl and -!
cutter oNpla'urd that h!.hlorllo N ncc
Innate" thnt It was h,orchrr. Hc r.
ltted TINT there vas nood on tho rirl'.
l"rt cheek, ills attention was called o.
the 1'nt IN me st'1m p,n' Wher, n
Victims h"aI, and examining It he fruui
a h't ot hnlr still Clin"Iug - tho ripe.
The surgeon spoiled another part Of
the story by saying that he found Miss
EnllP"k ItRht glove in small hgp o