The evening world., 1894-03-19
LAST EDITION.
IT IS A Deep MYSTERY
Police Puzzled by the Murder or
Suicide of Miss Fuller.
Clerk Magee Defends the Character
of the Dead Girl.
Her Friends Insist that She Was
Murdered.

The question of whose hand fired the
bullet into the left temple of Miss Mar
tha j. Fuller. the pretty typewriter.
bids fair to take a prominent place
among the impenetrable mysteries of
crime
All the persons connected in any way
with the tragic scene that was enacted
on the second floor of the Nassau Build
Ing ia Nassau street. at $50 o'clock
Saturday afternoon seemed bent on maxi
Ing the mystery still deeper this morn
ing
The scene OF the tragedy is very small
and confined. There were but two per-
sons there. The one is dead, the other
is a prisoner in the Tombs, charged with
her murder.
II seems simple enough. The diagram
of the law office of William Mullen,
where the tragedy occurred, shows the
location of all the points of interest to
the story. The reception room is eight
feet wide and fifteen or sixteen feet
long. The general office, where Martha
FlIer met her death, Is the same width
and not 50 long.
Joseph T. Magee, the managing clerk,
says he was sitting at the desk In the
port OF the pistol. and rushing into the
general office. where he supposed Miss
atory 10 leaving the office for the night
hs, own pistol by, her side.
Wasgoner's office, forty feet away, ran
into the Mullen offices at the first cry, OF
alarm from Magee, saw what Magee has
described, picked up the revolver and
placed it on desk
\ policeman and Lawyer, ], F, Reilly,
from the floor above, reached the scene
heard a resounding click on steam pipe
which runs up through his Offices from
\ tine Mullen office below. Then he had
II heard Magee's alarm.
: lie and the policeman found Miss
Fuller lying, on her right side, close up
sa owsrds assk hs fnd wndow sdfH There wS was
bullet wound in her left temple. The
bail had passed through her head, COM
up than the place where 1t entered.
There was a bruse on the gilded steam
pipe, showing where. the, bullet had
N side wall, near which it was found.
Evidently Miss Fuller was facing the
window, and standing beside or behind
must nave whirled half around before she
fell Her position, when standing would
have left little elbow room fer another le
shot, her 1t must have been with the left
Magcc, who is locked in cell sS, second
tier Of the male prison, In the Tombs.
and has for his fe!low;lodser, James
Donrelly, under conviction of man man
saGshter in zt.S the first degree Il for kiins
e'?hth street, says that Miss Fuller COM
m!tted suicide.
street. on her left. hand was a glove.
!; was drawn partly on to the fingers.
II The thumb wns free. and when she
vas found she clutched the right glove
There was a guard protecting the trig-
ger. 1t would have been difficult to in
sG5t G finger epcumbsred by the loose se
Sistol Ti hand, and even sven II Miss Fuller was LETT,
handed. TO shoot herself in, the left
bullet almost Straight through the head
would have been more difficult.
MasSau st, street Is very s y. very yyod narrGW RT
ing, filled with ofices fully tenanted
A murder committed in front of the
window of the Nassau Building mign
have been seen, almost must have beer
seen, by the people across the way.
The relations Of the dead girl say she
was even-tempered. prosperous happy
nent or worry Of any kind They scout
They add that she had spoken frequent
~ Of the unwelcome attentions she hac
ON the other hand, Magee had re-
parked to Mr.. Mullen and to others thai
It
quainted with, and he denies that there
were ever any other relations than those
arising from business
George Sauer, of One Hundred and Thir
ty-eishth street and Willis avenue. led Z
the supposition that Miss Fuller hac
bosom, but in response to an inquiry sen
70 his sick chamber to-day, Coroner,
upon Miss Fuller, returned answer tina
he had discovered no evidence to indicat,
th the girl va n0t Ssasse ss
Exporter. He is tall, angular man. o
"my IN irsand sGari and nd HAS has been IN IN Ney
York many years. He Is thorough!
educated and refined in manner. H
In response to a question he denie
emphatically that there had been an
Improper relations between him and Mis-
He added that she, was modest
and above suspicion;
on the floor above the scene OF tn
tragedy, say that Miss Fuller was
frequent caller on them at lunch time
That she seemed cheerful and happy an
spoke of her pleasant surroundings
Speaking specially of the goodness o
III The pistol that fired the fatal shot 1
%-callbre revolver, of fve chambers
hssss s,u says y l. Is his reyolSer That
was never loaded.
for it. and does does not no fH Know " who iosde
y nor when. II lay in drawer tina
Was never locked.
DAY, that part T Of his duties was vas I
slick up" the drawers. He had ofte
zen that pistol in Mr.. Magee's drawe
saturday morning ne took II In HI
,nands and examined 1t. and he says ths
~ chambers were empty at that tim
g'hough there was a box of cartridge
The drawer beside II.
hen II was picked up from the fioo
"a inches from Miss Fuller's right han