Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-25
swallowed some Of the chlorai before

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unable to get his name from him, but
believe he is probably a drug clerk.
NEW YORK. Oct. 22.--Foliowing re-
ceipt OF dispatches from Hamburg.
Germany. last night. saying that d
young woman whose body WAS found
at Islip last Sunday night might have
been that Of Anna Latter of Altona.
a suburb OF Hamburg. a number OF
points In the mystery have been clear
! ed today.
The Identification IL considered cor
rect and the police are now seeking
to locate Otto Mueller who Is said to
have married the girl in Newark. N.
j.. on Feb 6, 1908. For several months
previous 10 that time II is said that
Anna Latter was employed as maid
at the home OF Isaac Seligman. a
New York banker. Shortly after the
wedding Otto Mueller took his bride
to Europe where they visited her rel.
atives In Germany and then hurried
| back to New York They spent u
| few days in Newark visiting friends
while Mueller made Excursions to
| find an appointment Suddenly the
couple were lost track OF and although
inquiries were made by many the
mystery of their Disappearance was
soon forgotten and remained SO until
the disclosure of the fact that the
skeleton found at Islip might be that
of Anna Latter
1T has been the belief of the police
that the murder was committed more
than year ago. The girl could then
have been but bride of few months
when she met her death How, is
still mystery.
bile goggles near the skeleton
| strengthens the theory that the girl
was taken to the woods In motor
car. A road house keeper near by
has told the police that two men and
q woman came TO his house In an auto
mobile last fall and after luarreling
over money and real estate hurried
away The two men returned to the
house later that night without the
woman.
Anna Latter is said to have been a
pretty girl. She had worked as maid
In wealth families in Denver. Chicago
and New York. In the Seligman
household where she worked for two
years ,she had been considered a girl
OF unusual good taste and refinement.
Mueller met her at Far Rockaway
beach while she was caring for an
invalid there. He had represented
himself 10 Anna Latter and her friends
as an architect and had said he owned
twelve lots in Jamaica, l.. L.. where
he planned to build a home,
The police are looking for Mueller
Tor further information.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 22.-Speakine
here last night ut dinner given by
the Knife and Fork club. John Bar
rett, director of the international bu.
reau of American republics. said:
| 'The Panama canal VIII be opened
10 The worlds traffic in 1915. or
that / am confident. My acquaintance
with the great undertaking dating
| from my experience as United States
minister to Panama makes me feel
| sure in only six years from this fall
we all will be going down to the
isthmus to celebrate the completion
of the worlds greatest artificial wa
terway"
ITHACA. N. Y. Oct. 22.-That sick.
ness costs the people of the United
States a billion dollars per year, an
average of thirteen days lost to each
of the population, and that minor all
ments for which the doctor is not
called cost probably n quarter million
year. was statements of Prof. lere-
miah W. jerks, the Cornell university
economist and member of the immi.
grafton committee, in lecture before
Cornell students
PARIS, Oct. 22.-Orville Wright out.
lined his views on the subject OF me
| chanical flight In there is mt as
much danger in flying as in auto.
mobile racing" He said:
I'VE can now turn out motors that
Will run regularly for a short time
forty-nine times out of fifty and in
ten years ] think there will be an
aeroplane motor that will be absolutely
reliable. We will soon build a ma
chine for speed to be used without the
present motor to show what can be
done. 1t will go faster than any ma.
chine you have seen over here"
| How far can You fly in one of your
present machines?" was asked.
| In Berlin he answered. II took
up as passenger man who weigh.
ed 225 pounds. | had seventy.fiye
pounds of gasoline on board. could
replace the weight OF the man with
gasoline and that would give me 300
pounds of fuel and with that could
| Fly 800 miles. Yes. anyone who can
run an automobile can fly. 1t is not
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