New-York tribune., 1909-10-24
GEO FLINT Co.
SEEK Won MILLER
Police Think Husband of ISIip
Victim Could Tell Al.
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The problem which confronts the Long
Island police in their efforts to unravel the
mystery surrounding the murder Of the
young woman whose charred skeleton was
found In the Islip woods last Sunday, was
partly solved yesterday. 1t is now well
established that the body is that Of Anna
Luther, a native OF Germany, who was
married in Newark, n. J., in February,
1908, to Otto Mueller, for whom the police
are now seeking, in the belief that he is the
man who can explain how his wife came to
her death more than a year ago.
The police believe that when they find
the man who called himself Otto Mueller
or Amiel Won Miller, and who married un-
der the latter name Miss Amelia Veihel-
mann, of No POSI- Third avenue. last Mo-
vember their part IN clearing up the 1slip
mystery will be ended. From the story
(which Mrs. Won Miller told yesterday the
police Believe that the missing man had con-
tracted the habit of escorting women to
lonely parts Of Long Island for the purpose
of forcing them 10 part with their money.
Mrs. Won Miller owns considerable prop
erty and is in partnership with her brother
George, in a profitable barber supply busi-
ness at the Third avenue address. She said
yesterday that she thought her money
was what her husband was after when he
married her, for he disappeared with six
months after the ceremony. He got s, 200
from me while we lived together" said
Mrs. Won Miller, and when I refused to
give him any more he abandoned me, de-
claring that did not treat him with proper
consideration.
He said that he was Of noble birth and
that he had received degrees IN law and
medicine in Germany. He frequently pre-
scrtbed for me when was Ill and on one
occasion gave me opium to relieve a pain
in the stomach. I have never thought that
he gave me the opium with murderous in
tent because his prescriptions always made
me feel better. Last February he told me
that he wanted me to go out on Long ISL
and to look at some real estate and said
that as he expected to make large cash
payment on the property he wanted me TO
draw tho money out of the bank. 1 be-
came suspicious and carried my check
= book instead and I believe that it is be-
cause of my suspicion that am alive to-
day. He would probably have killed me
If l had had any large amount of money
with me. He never mentioned the subject
again and on March 23 he disappeared"
1t is said that at least two other persons
have informed the police that they were
swers that of Otto Mueller, or Won Miller.
Otto Mueller. a grocery clerk, employed at
No. 6S1 Wythe avenue, Brooklyn, had a
hard time explaining to the police yester-
day that he was not the man wanted in the
Islip case.
Information was received from Newark
yesterday that DR.. Ludwig V. Sattler, of
that city, had recently returned from Eu-
rope, where he visited the home of the
parents of Anna Luther. According TO Dr.
Sattler, they had not heard any news of
her since her marriage to Mueller twenty
months ago, and had long since come to the
conclusion that she was dead.
Islip, Long Island. Oct. pa good many
residents hereabouts entertain the theory
that the woman whose skeleton was found
near here. and who is said to have been
Anna Luther Mueller. may have been acct
dentally shot by deer hunters during the
hunting season last November. It is thought
possible that her slayers may have become
terror stricken on discovering their mistake
and rather than face charge of reckless
shooting had hidden the body of the
woman.