The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
SUSPECTS
MUELLER IN ISL|P
MURDER MYSTERY
DR.. SattIer, Back from Europe,
Says Luther Foretold
Her Death.
NEWARNERS AID HUNT FOR
VICTIMS ABSENT HUSBAND
New Proofs Establish Identity
of Victim as Mrs. Otto MueI-
Ter, Who Was Married Here.

That Herman Luther. of Wieda, Ger
many, father of Mrs. Otto Mueller,
L. l., last week, believed his daughter
had been murdered by her husband
weeks before the Long Island mystery
developed, was the startling statement
made today to a representative of the
STAR by DR.. Ludwig V. Sattler, of 22
Seventeenth street, who is back today
from a visit to Germany. DR.. Sattler
knew Mrs. Mueller before she came to
this country and visited her parents
six weeks ago.
"At that time said DR.. Sattler to-
day. "Mr. Luther, the dead woman's
father, said to me that he was salts
fled that his daughter was dead. He
also said that he believed that Mueller
had made away with her, as he was
convinced by his appearance he
visited Germany with his wife that the
man was a crook and that his daughter
had made a big mistake in marrying
him.
VI course, MI Luther diu not Know
theh any ythihg ABOUT MS oaushter peihs
ihuruereu' IL was SIMPLY an opiilion
oased on the lact that ne haa hearo
hothihs from her since she lei, per-
many aiter lhe Visit she anu ier nus
pano mace them on tIielr hoheymooh'
An eanitlohal discovery III cohhection
with the murder Oh the woman whoss
sheietoh was louho near ishp' H. L.
maze touay ,ehus 70 MAKE apsoiutey
CERTAIN ti'e iueii'iiica.ioii VI tne Vie,iiii
VI 'he .rakeuy as mfs. o..o Hiusiiei'
Wlo was 'dst seen uy Ir,ends ia We"
| afk oay OF Two peiore tue tiiIie "i'en
she 10 pe"e'e" 10 nave met hei 'iasi0
death
IN .eiephoIe hessase lIoln DIuoA
'yh poiice netluquhrters 10 flenig Wo
puPp, Oh ies oouth oiAli street, 'ouas,
tile newark friend OF the Hiurueieu
woman was INFORMED that sniah
plack Dag had peen iouhd near thG
spot where the skeleton was ulscoVereu
III the desoiate stretch OF Woou. IN tnis
Dag were several arllcies OIL Je"eirs
Which the Brooklyn pollee ala not
describe over the phone MRS Wer-
pupp declared that Mrs' Mueiler was
accustomed TO wear sncn Dag ABOUT
ner neck. In IL she always carried
snch Oh her JeWeiry as she ala not
wear.
Mr.. and Mrs. Werpupp, VINO were
helgnpors OF tue glrls parents III I
Weida, Germany, and SO intimately
friendly with her here in Newark that
she was accustomed to address them
as 'father' and mother VIII spare
no pains to assist in the search which
the police are making for her slayer.
Mr.. Werpupp was requested to come
to Brooklyn police headquarters today
to confer with the men who are as
signed to the case, and declared his
willingness TO comply with. the request.
AS a result of the detailed account Of
the movements of Otto Mueller, hus-
band of the murdered woman. before
and after the womans death, which
was published exclusively in the eve
ming edition of the STAR yesterday.
the metropolitan police have thrown
their dragnet all over the country In
an effort to apprehend him,
1t was through the STAR that the
police received their first intination
that Otto Mueller had been writing TO
the parents of his wife from Trinidad
Colo. as though tbey were living han
pily together. long after tbe time when
she Is supposed to have met her tragic