The sun., 1894-03-25
SURE IT WAS NOT SUICIDE.
BELIEF or TEE AUTHORITIES <BoUr
MISS FULLER's DEATH.

Farther Isspeetio. OF Mr. MuIien's Lsv
Omes bT Detectives snd by ESPerts fer
the Dfeser-The Inque-t May Bs Pat Oa.
The statement was m ads oflcially again yes-
terday that the evidence the police have
gathered In the matter Of the very mysterious
shooting Of Miss Martha J. Fuller In the law
ofics Of her employer. william NJ. Mullen. at
ia Nassau street a week ago Saturday, proved
conclusively that the young woman did not
shoot herself Assistant District Attorney
Henry Hartman. who is getting the evidence
in share to present TO the Caroner's jury. said
The question OF suicide Is out OF this case
entirely. She did not kill herself"
For some reason known only to the police
Detective seargeants Titus and McCloskey
were put back at work on the case yesterday.
They had been taken of when the announce.
ment was made that the police had
gathered all the evidence In the case that
there was to gather. They called at the
Cuoner's office early yesterday morning and
got DIR. Weston to go with them to the scene OF
the shooting. They were In the room for q
long time. They declined to say what they
had been doing. DIR. Weston said they hadn't
been doing anything.
some one who said he had made careful
examination OF the room told the police on
Friday afternoon that he had discovered spot
on the radiator similar to that on the steam
pine at the point where the bullet struck after
It had passed through Miss Fuller's head. lie
believed. he said. that the bullet had first
struck the radiator and glanced from there to
tho steam pipe. He argued that Miss Fuller
had been sitting down By her desk when she
was shot. that the terson who shot her had
been sitting close to the wall. and that that ao-
counted for the marks on the wall back OF the
typewriter. 1t may be that 1t was to find out
-
resume ed their work on the case.
Shortly after the detectives and DIR. Weston
hal gone two men came In who said they were
experts hired by Lawyers Brooke & O'Sullivan
in Magee's interests. These two men spent
half an hour measuring things and figuring
When they finished they said that they would
Ss ,t s5ls to demo demonstrate thst the bullet that
anybody but herself They said there was but
one thing In the room that was Of value as
Pipe where the bullet struck. They had ex-
amlned that. they said. with powerful glasses.
ball cane % from rom the Other front re % corner % Of the
room thus proving that Miss Fuller must have
been standing directly in front OF her wndow
her head on the right de. she m ust have been
standing back to the window. and SO close to
must have fallen on the radiator, her head in
such q position that the blood marks on
they @ ths the
was ired BY Magee he must have stood d.
rscty IN frSnt Of the windOy tp iull yisT Of
wall over the typewriter desk. which ,superin:
spots oa and which were described yesterday % a.
powder marks. the experts said:
We sSsmined them under q glass. They may
They iooked TO US as Il somebody had raised .
Police officials heard OF this staten ent OF tho
expert examiners. but they would not make
sSsG IT, when H. Titus .na IT,
Gloskey were sent for BY superintendent
soa Ss shsn tss sna that the a
practical experiments with their rsyolyers
The experiments didn't come OF.
tended Miss Fuller after. the shooting said
Yesterday that when he looked about the room
bone sticking to the steam pipe where the bul.
let struck; Il was q piece OF SKULL that had
Sn also .aid % that as his rssosetfon went Miss
s.sn and e
way on. The doctor Thought he rsmem bered
having pulled the glove down 80 that he could
.sSn Of qoss S nj winter 'hs Who 'ssl sa:
there. Il the and d''% Who OIaSts ao d0issr sss
thu, M.gess M claim thst the r.:
Fullsr's dress, and that was the reason It was
not seen By Kisrnan and Riley when they got
yet whether they will have any witnesses at
the Coroners inquest. They are pretty certain
don't want to show their hand unnecessarily.
Mr. Hartman was asked yesterday how many
atty and seventy-fve, and he added that he
didn't think he would be ready to 90 on to-
HE might sf tS5 AZ S
Inquest would last several days. Coroner Fitz-
patrick said he didn't see any reason why 1t
should not be completed in a sitting.
All the testimony that will be admitted" he
said. will be that bearing on the shooting
itself and on q possible motive for 1t. Nobody
will be permitted to bring In Q lot Of scandal