New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
GREGORY REPORT
ON MORS' SANITY
EXPECTED TO-DAY
Prosecutor Gets Clew to
Death in Former Quar-
tiers at Unionport.
CORONER HINTS NEW
MOTIVE FOR KILLING
Victims Bodies Stuffed
with Cotton-Girl Drug
gist Taken in Charge.

gISt | AIKEN III Iiidi Se'
Nv noon to-day DR.. VI. s. Gregory
the Bellevue Hospital alicnist. Will re-
wort on the mental condition OF FREQ
erich Nors. whose story Of killing old
,rd troublesome occupants Of the Ger
ma, odd Fellows Home IN lonkeTs'
,o,t hin, 10 the Bellevue psychopathlc
ward. l.-.- D,,rr
Of Yonkers is already at the hospi'aI'
and should Mors be declared sane Mag-
,stratc Corriean will turn him over 20
Cbicf Daniel Wolf OF the Gonkers po-
Ice. .,...;o,, ~
DR.. Gregory was IN consultation N
0b;tc Plains Yesterday with most OF
tho officials investigating affairs at the
walkers home. He told them IN detail
the assertions Mors has made SINCE
beirg in the hospital, and described
lis actions. No one knew, however
abst the alicnist's report would be.
There was little ia the ram oI nGS OF
Nors that vas not in :hc Original STATE
Tcnt he made in the New YORK Dlslrl &c,
At,orrcy's Office. As 20 some cases ne
-, ;r,o more detail. and Seymour
Nork the Bronx Assistant District Az
torpo,. for one. WAS convinced that
'bcrc vas truth in the former porter 5
story ~ l..
"Nors isn't altogether liar, de-
dared Mr. Mork last night.
ON Tuesday Mork could see nothing
.rir,inal in the case II was his opin-
ION then that there might be evidence
Of rrismanagCmCnt, but not OF CRIME
Tho Bronx prosecutor also got lnforma-
,io, re 70 n death said 10 have been
,susod nv arsenic when the home was
IN I-nicnrcrt. Ne had known OF the
death and the alleged use Of poison DC,
fore but additional information gained
yesterday will be most valuable TO MS
inquiry, he believes. ,,.
70 the death Of Hanschel. 10 whom
Jors said he gave arsenic, Dr. +. NJ.
Irs.or visiting physician at the home,
did that he had prescribed tonic
which contained arsenated potash. IT
was impossible, Or. Juster said, that
death could have been caused by poi
son.
Adam Ranccrt former superintend-
ont Of tho institution. and Ring, Reich
crt and Schmidt, the employees whose
stories tend 80 substantlate Morss as
eor,ious. we're examined by DR.. Greg
ory. Assistant District Attorney Mork
and the others at the conference. Ban
cert rcpcated his denial Of the charges,
saving that Mors was trying to inJure
him because he had been discharged.
As 10 the signeu statement which
Ranrcrt received from Mors, saying
that Mors's remarks about deaths
caused by arsenic and other drugs
we're intended as Jokes, banger'
had little 20 say. 1t was simply pre-
caution, he explained, in case the
trustees Of the institution heard the
stories. lie was not asked how II came
That arsenic was specifically mentioned
Those AZ the conference were Or
Gregory, Mr. Mork, District Attorney
J. f. Weeks of Westchester, Sheriff
l'lrich Weisendanger and Coroner
James T. Dunn of Yonkers.
Nork will be at Bellevue this morn
ing TO see Mors about his new arsenic
,ew
The Yonkers home was quieter yes
tcrday than for days. Except for New
York detective there was little TO re-
mind the inmates Of the stories that
have made some Of the rooms most un'
popular
Mors includes in his list of victims, le-
clared his belief in the former porter's
confession yesterday. Hauser was tell
ing Detective Willemse, Of District At
torncy Perkinss homicide bureau
about the death of his wife.
"She was well. tell YOU" cried
Hauscr. "She might be getting along
am myself but she had never been
nm better health spoke to Mr.. Mors
about It. She's looking fine | told
him.
"'SheTI be dead in less than two
days nc says 10 me. Naturally
thought he was joking, but it kind OF
hurt nc. too, for folks hadn't ought to
Joke that way with old folks"
"Shc was feeling fine Hauser re
heated. at was December 3, and ! was
with her. Dinner was ready and ! was
going down. Hurry b.ck, Pop she
says TO me, or I'll come down and get
YOU
"When / came back she was dead
Mrs. Hauser suffered from dropsy
and Mors Is said TO have regarded her
as nuisance.
Charles Steers, another inmate Of the
home. said that Mors asked him now
and then 20 run errands. Several times
he said, Mors had told him 10 fetch
some cotton, and soon after delivering
the cotton news Of the death Ct one OF
Mors's charges would reach him.
While Willemse was waiting for
Hauser in the reception room, Mrs
Josephine Buonopene, whose fourteen
year-old daughter. Amelia, vas in
charge Of the drugs az the home, IN
tered Mrs. BuonoPcne was there &c