The evening world., 1894-03-20
Evidence that the Revolver Wa
Laid Beside Her After
She Died.
1T WAS LOADED DURING THE DAY
Office Boy Burton Says the Weapon
Was Empty on Satur-
day Morning.

Stitch by stitch the tangled mystery
surrounding the tragic death of Martha
j. Fuller is being unravelled though
there are still two plausible theories OF
how the typewriter in Lawyer William
NJ. Mullens office met her death.
! Assistant District-Attorney Henry
| Hartman was to-day assigned TO take
charge OF the case He will. represent
the Dlstrict-Attorney at the Coroner $
inquest. and will consult with Supt.
Byrnes and Capt. Slevin.
The story of j. Frank Herman, editor
of The Retail Liquor Dealer. and an old
and tried newspaper reporter, and that
of Lawyer John F. Riley, another old
newspaper man, are of particular value.
Mr. Herman, whose Office is directly
above and just like the office in which the
to enter the room where Miss Fuller
was shot to death. and the most startling
thing Mr.. Herman says Is:
II have as a newspaper man helped to
| fathom the mysteries Of many crimes.
| and my newspaper instinct made me. on
my entrance and discovery that crime
had been committed, look for the in
strument with which the deed was done,
and-I say positively that there was no
weapon in sight.
Mr.. kernans story.
Now, l found a young woman sit
ting with her back against the steam
radiator, which stands in the middle
of the broad window that fills almost
the entire Nassau street front of the
little office. She was resting partly on
the projecting base of the radiator.
ha- lad rarIa ,N1.
and towards the rear of the room at full
length, and her skirts were punched
up around her hips or nearly so;
Her head was inclined slightly to the
left so that her right temple was up
turned sufficiently to show me that
| there was great gaping wound there,
from which blood was flowing. down her
face and upon her corsage. There was
Her eyeids fickered slightly, indi-
eating to me. for l have spent some
and beside injured people, possibly a re-
| turning consciousness. | had not then
discovered the true character of the
wound.
Another Pool of Blood.
ITO ease her position gathered her In
my arms and moved her out and laid
her. at, full length on the floor; Then
shaped pool of blood just at her left as
II she had sat with her back to the radI-
ator yet there was no blood flowing
from the left side OF her head
Who did move the wounded girl from
the position into which she must have
fallen to make that irregular and smal
| pool of blood?
| Joseph Il. Magee, who says he was the
only other person in the little offices
where the tragedy occurred, has told
what he did. He says he was in the lit,
tie reception, room at the rear-abou
where Mr.. Herman found the dying girl
| that he heard the report of the pisto
In the front office. rushed TO the door
on the floor and rushed out to call for
help.
That Chair Incident.
But Mr.. Herman tells another startling
When bent over and raised the gir
in my arms ! found that my action was
hampered by an armless cane-seateC
ner Of the room, between the steam pireS
! and a rollng-top desk. | told Magee tC
move 1t out of the way, and he did So
The position of that chair had beer
said before. all my newspaper instincts
led me to take in the details Of the situa.
tion, and that chair looked as If it had
been kicked away carelessy by some on5
rising from it,"
When the police questioned Mages
| and examined the room little later
/
| corner, and il was stated that that book
case always had been in that spot.
No Pistol in Sight.
Again. after and while | was moving
the girl, | looked for the weapon, bu
saw none" continues Mr.. Herman,
Mr., Riley had gone into the place
within two minutes after Herman ar
| rived on the scene, He stood back anC
! looked on, and he says he saw no wca
pom he noted the chair heard KernaT
| tell MaGee to move IL, and saw Mage,
| take IL out of the corner.
The rolling top desk belongs to Magee
In II Is the drawer where that revolver
was kept, and whore the letter., some he
longing to him and some to Miss Fuller
We're found: the drawer where other per
sonal belongings Of both these younf
people were in confusion. 1t stood nbou
thirty inches to the east of the glide,
steam-pipes.
feet from the floor is the mark Of tht
bullet that passed through the unfOr
tunate girls head. II Is located, not oI
the southerly convex OF the pipe, hu
on the nOrtheasterly convex, and tht
bullet striking 1t glanced OFF, passed hS
the inner pipe and struck the wall OF
the north side OF the room, SIX inches
distant, and so nearly straight with Il
that II seems wonderful that II, did no
Craze the inner pipe.
Had the pistol been pointed north anC