The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-09
NAB MURDER SUSPECT
AFTER A HARD FIGHT
Muchlfpldt Studying Criminal.
ogy in New Jersey When
Run Down.
SALOON HOLDtP CHARGED
In Which Patrick Burns Was
killcd-WaS Once Con.
victcd of Burglary.
SALOON HOLDrP CHAHGEb

A swarthy little man. Frank " Much.
feldt. was brought to Police Hcadpuarter
Yesterday afternoon from Nineland \ !
and charged with the murder os patrick
Burns in the back room of tho latter.
saloon on the night Of February II Frank
Neuberger. Burns q bartender. and two
other men positively identified Much.
feldt as the man who had shot Blrn,
in the chest
Muehlfeldt was found work ing "a an
attendant in tho New Jersey TRAINING
School for Feeble Minded Boys and GirI
in Vineland. He was routed out of he'd
by Detectives McKcnna and Cassases
and put up a stiff fight before he gsve
in. Then he conscnte to Come to New
York IL ne we're discharged in the jersey
court in which he was arraigned This
the detectives were only too glad to agree
to and he was not arrested again until
he was on the ferryboat.
On the night Burns. who was former
chief of police in Toledo. was shot. two
men. one Of whom the police say is Muehl.
feldt. and the other his cousin. Henry
Miller. now locked up in the Tombs
thtcItu tIv Nuopu hhu tdO IOT eDLus
time in the rear room. When il cana
time to close Burns went back to tell
the men to leave. As he spoke to them
one man jumped to his feet and pointing
a revolver at Burns told him to give up
his money The other covered Frank
Neuberger. the bartender. with revolver
Burns decided TO take chance and made
a leap for the man covering him and was
shot. The other man got into a misup
with Neuberger and knocked him down
with the butt of his revolver Then they
cleaned out the cash drawer. which con.
, tanned about 81. and after shooting Burns
in the back as he lay Oh the floor went
out. They overlooked nearly 500 in
Burns's pocket.
No clue was obtained to the murderers
until on March "a Joseph De Lucca a
pedler, was held up on the roof of the
street and robbed of about s2 900 in Jew.
elry. Four men We're concerned in this
and three were arrested. One was Henri
Miller, and when Neuberger was taken
down to the Tombs to look Miller over
he identified him as one of the men who
had held up himself and his employer
Then the police discovered that Miller
was Muehlfeldt's cousin and that they had
been together a good deal. II was no.
until they obtained an inkling of his where
abouts from Miller that the police mad
any definite news of Muehlfeldt 'Tney
traced him TO Philadelphia and found
that he had obtained from an e,nplovmen
agency the position of attendant al tae
New Jersey Training School.
At the school there is a class in crimi
nology for attendants who wish to Learn
something of the children in their charge
who manifest criminal tendencies. Muehl-
feldt entered this class shortly after h.
went to work and showed more interes
than any of the others in the study o
criminal characteristics of the men;ally
deficient Most of his questions wer.
based on the law Of heredity and Muehl.
feldt was constantly arguing that all
criminals inherit their criminal bent,
Ii was | o'clock yesterday mornins
tern and walked quietly to one of the
outbuildings where Aluehlfeldt had his
, room. When they jumped in the door
Muehlfeldt was sitting on the edge OF hi
bed in the darkness. Apparently he had
heard them coming. Before he had a
chance to grab. knife under, his pillow
the two detectives pinioned him. Then
they tossed him his clothes and as he was
putting them on he tore letter into bits
and attempted to swallow it. The letter
was one from his wife saying that she had
decided not to move to 44O Lenox avenue
IN this city because she was afraid de-
tectives would follow her there All his
mail had been sent him there in care Of
another man.
! Capt Faurot got Muehlfeldt's picture
out Of the rogues gallery and found tha,
he had been convicted of burglary in 1905
and that sentence had been suspended by
Judge Grain in General Sessions Faurot
said that Muehlfeldt was one Of the
cleverest burglars in the city. Muehlfeldt.s $
| nSllal nf WORKING tf, LOT him aolf
down from the roof by a rope and get in
a window. The police say ne was mixed
up in several saloon holdups just before
Burns was shot and that after the shooting
the holdups in that section Of the Bronx
ceased.