The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-09
LUNAfIC KILLS A POLICEMAN
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4 RRTDGEPORT BANk.
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BRIDoETORr. March s--AI'er mailing
letters written in red ink 20 John u
Rockefeller. ,. 4 Morgan. Cornelius
Vanderbilt. Vale and Berlin universities.
! President Taft and the rulers of half
dozen foreign nations Gustave Frederick
Karl Mueller aged NJ. hInatic. sei ont
from his fathers home 10 shoot up the
Bridgeport Savings Bank. the officer. oi
which had refused Yesterday 10 deliver
to him s4O0.OOO
On his way to the bank Mueller shot
and killsd Policeman Ellsworth c. Dielz.
probably fatally wounded Rocco Leopold.
an Italian barber and wounded With -
spent bullet Thomas =. Dougherty.
wealthy building contractor
Fleeing through the crowded streets
with the poliCp IA pursuit Mueller wash i'm
self shot and wounded 10y Patrolmsn
John Brown. the eadsr in the chase. and
captured after q pursuit OF three blocks
Di"tz died IA st Nincent's Hospital
twenty minutes after the shooting. where
10th he and Leopold were taken. Hun
dreds Of persons blocked the streets A.
the police and their captive hurried TO
pOlice headquarters. The police feared
to wait for a Patrol. owing to the threats
Of violence shouted by the crowd. who
bad seem IN" dying policeman carried Ia
the Emergency Hospital IN an AUTOMOBILES.
With pistols pressed against the pri-
soner = head and fighting their way through
the crowd. the police succeeded IN landing
Mueller IN police headquarters. where
he was charged with murder.
Muallar gnrnnafeeasA 80 tho STATE
Hospital for the Insane. mt Middletown,
last June after a hlnacy commission had
pronounced him insane. He was arrested
roaming through the corridors OF the
Atlantic Hotel shadowing guests under
the Authorization that he was a detective.
His father. a we'll to do farmer. com
planned Of the cost OF keeping him At the
asylum, and last November got him re
leass'd IN his custody. officials OF the
institution said to-day they had warned
the parent his EOn VAS dangerous and
should he kept under Close surveillance.
Yesterday Mueller entered the Bridge
port Savings Rank where he demanded
oI Paying Teller Charles Peet StOOooO
which he said had been sent tn him by
the Armour Reef Company
Peet put him on. asking him To return
later, and then Alexander Hawley. presi
dent Of the hank. hurri~d m his automo-
bile "a police headquarters. Supt. Mr-
minghan, detailed Detective Ssrgcants
Hackstt and Hall to the hank To await
his temperance.
Instead 81 returning To Tho hank he
bought - calibre pistol and box ~
cartridges and went home. Hall remained
al the hank this morning and HAckett. .
learning where Mueller lived. went "a
his home Mueller. Apparently rational. 1
ordered HRckett out. The sergeant lott I
cred near the home. and when Mueller
set out at iO.:n he followed at distance
Vie overlook Mueller a. Fairfield avenue
and Main street, the busie~, corner m
the city. where Patrolmen Wheeler aud /
Diet of the traftic squad were just being
relieved by Patrolmen Musante and I
Brown. :
Hackett s.izsd Mueller. but the maniac ,
broke away and drawing his pistol covered /
Hackett. While the latter backed away
Muaante crs-pt zap b@hInd and ss.izsd his /
arm. Turning and pressing the muzzle
OF hts pistol against Policeman nciiz' =
throat he fired Then turning his pistol
toward M,ISante ~ again fired. hut the
policeman dropped In time 70 escape the
ballet which struck LEOPOLD. Then he
turned his TastOl toward Brown. hut
DoUgherty got the bullet meant for him.
Brown @>t out after Mueller. with
Hackett and Musante following. Brown
fired three shots. one Of them whistling
psrilously close tn suzanne Roccacore. a
vaudeville actress. who walked out Of
the Atlantic Hotel A. the murderer dashed
by.
One Of the bullets struck the fugitive
IN the left wrist. lie fed under the
railroad vtariuCt and WAS raising his
Diztol which still held one bullet when
Hackett and Brown seized him.
Mueller labor- under the hallucina- ioy
that tho universities of the world have
a black list upon which they have placed
HIM and that a result h. u unable To
Obtain employment In MS letters he
condemns-d the black list and the univer-
stiles. he - n years old and unmarried.
His mental disorder, physicians testified
when h" was committed to The ASYLUM. -