Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-21

NEW YORk'S TRAGIC MYSTERY.
An Important Disclosure in the Fuller
Case.
The latest development in the shooting of
| Miss Martha j. Fuller, the typewriter shot
In Mullen's law Office at New York on Sat
urday, is the result of the second autopsy
made by DIR. O'Hare Of The coroner's office
and j. S. Phelps Of the staff OF Bellevue
and st. Vincent's Hospitals. 1t shows that
she WIS shot in the right side of the lead,
not the left, as formerly reported.
| In several other directions skilled and pa
| tient investigation is gradually 6issipating
the fog of mystery with which the shooting
has been surrounded. and the more clear 1t
| becomes the less reason there seems 10 be
| to consider it at all suicide.
E4tor kiernan was the INST to respond
| to the cries of assistance uttered by Masee,
anu he thinks 1t was not more than three
minutes after the shot was hired. he de-
| termineS the moment when the explosion
occurred by the noise made on the steam
pipes, which was caused by the bullet
striking them. He thought at first that
there was something wrong with the pipes,
because, he had never heard such sound
before. From the bullet mark Oh the steam
pipe In the corner and on the wall. Aiss
fuuer would have been compelled TO stand
against the radiator within six inches OF
| the window, when she nred the shot In
| that case she could do nothing bat fall over
the radiator. her face coward The window,
| or backwards with her feet against The
| radiator. her head toward The door. She
was found by Herman with her back
against the radiator and rer feet toward
the door. Her head, Surmoua.ed by hat,
hung e little forward and 70 the right side.
| but the strangest part OF it AL WAS that
| from a hole in the right side OF her head
the blood at that moment was lowing free
ly The frontal bone rne side Uulged
out, indicating that II had been broken,
and blood on the side did not run 10 the
| floor, but trickled from The chin and was
| absorbed by her clothing. On the left side
| OF her head Mr.. Herman no bullet
hole. detected no traces Of blood. yet on
| that side of the body, and none of 1t be-
meath her clothing, was the thick pool Of
| blood already referred To, and there was
no other blood on the floor near the body
| at that time. There was no trace Of II
| even beneath the young woman, Mr.. Kier-
nan Is positive, else when he passed his
arms under her and raised her up, he would
have detected it on the hoor, or perhaps
have got some of 1t on his clothing.
The second pool Of blood came from the
wound on the right of the head after Kier-
nan had Strengthened out the body the
| hoor. Even after he lad done that lie did
| not know there was a Wound in the left
| side of her head because the hole there
hidden by the hat, or the hair OF the young
| woman. To Mr.. kiernan IL appeared Us II
Miss Fuller had her back to the radiator
when the shot was fired, and had slid down
| gradually and against the radiator. Her
| clothing was punched beneath her and the
| hem of her dress had been drawn above her
| ankles. She had not dropped quickly. else
| she would have rested Oh the base of the
radiator. She was a woman Of good weight
| and the radiator is comparatively frail. She
| was, most likely. placed in that position
after the bullet passed through her mead.
No Revolver Seen.
Mr.. Herman is certain, too, that there
was no revolver near the right hand of the
woman when he was there, and the instinct
of an old newspaper man prompted him to
look about for it. 1t was not until he had
gone for policeman that the revolver ap-
peared
Lawyer J. F. Riley, who had been in the
room for some time up to that point, agrees
with him. Lawyer Riley heard Magee re
proving, the boy Draining for having re-
moved the revolver from beside the body,
but neither he nor Herman saw II there
and there was any amount of daylight in
the room.. Another singular fact is that
the blood spots on the wall of the office
and also on the partition opposite and
across the room had escaped observation.
The district attorneys Office took up the
Fuller case yesterday.
| Col. Fellows assigned Assistant District
| Attorney Hartman to it, and he began a
| quiet investigation and summoned several
witnesses to give preliminary testimony.
An Important Disclosure.
! What seems to be an important link In
the chain Of facts asserted with Miss Full
ler's death came to light for the first time
last night in an interview with Henry c.
Vett, bartender in Timothy F1ynn's bill
hard rooms III Nassau street on the OPP
posite side of the street to the Nassau
chambers where Miss Fuller met her death.
| Nett said: Shortly after ) o'clock on
Saturday evening a man about twenty
seven or twenty-eight years of age. of
medium height wearing a derby hat and
/ a RE MINI
| tache, suddenly rushed i'm the saloon. He
was in an exceedingly excited state, and
huTriedly called for glass of whisky, say
| ing: Make 1t a big one: there is a young
| LADY sick across the street"
| Il gave him the whisky. He picked up
the glass, placed his hand over the top OF
it and rushed out again without paying
! for 1t.
Il am confident that there was no ambu-
| lance I'm sight when the man ran into the
saloon. He did not return for at least an
| hour afterward. He then came in and
! brought back the empty glass, and said,
that girl is dead; she shot
Il am positive he did not say that she
! had shot herself. / know the man perfectly
well by sight, and have seen him in and
out here frequently during the past six
years, though L have never known his
name.
when the man who took the whisky
over the way brought back the empty glass
he was accompanied by friend. 1t
then after o'clock, but l cannot say how
I nlucn, liOuEn. L tfllnh lflal the ambulance
had been and gone again. Miss Fuller at
one time worked in office in this build
ing, and l knew her very well by sight i
had never spoken to her.
The story told by Tett suggests the idea
that some one knew of Miss Fuller's con-
ditiOn before an ambulance call was sent
out and had time to run for the whisky
before alarm was raised.
/ The time the call for the ambulance
vas received at Chambers Street Hospital
is registered on the books as 1884 o'clock,
and the time of the return is entered as
G.;}2 pm. Across the entry is written Dix
on after arrival"
! Vett says he could easily identify the
man who came into the saloon with the
empty glass.
The Washington Alumni.
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