New Britain herald., 1915-02-06
WARRANT ISSUED FOR ARREST OF N0RS
Four Others Also Held in ConntC-
 ton Wnh Murders.

New York. Feb 6.--Superintendent Adam Baukert and three porters of
 the German Odd Fellows Home in
 Yonkers were arrested last night as material witnesses in the case of Frederick Mors, the eX-orderly, who has been in Bellevue under observa- ton since his confession that he
 killed eight of the aged inmates of the home. A warrant was also issued for Mors arrest Coroner Dunn of Yon- ! kers would not disclose the charge against Mors, but said the warrant 1 would be served when the latter was i released from the hospital.
 Bankert was taken in the custody of 1 Sheriff Wiesendancer to the County Jail at White Plains. By order of the l coroner, he was not permitted to see 1 any one after being locked up. 1 The arrests followed a visit to the 1 Home in Tuckahoe Road by Coroner 1 Dunn and Sergeant Healy and Lieu- i tenant McGoWan, of the Yonkers po- l lice. On Thursday, Healy and Me- Gowan came to the city and with Detectives Oswald and Willemse. of l the Second Branch Bureau, visited 1 Mors in the psycho opathic ward at Bel 1 levue. They questioned the man at 1 great length but could not shake his l story.
 Claims He's Not Crazy. l T am not more crazy than you 1 are," he insisted, and advised the 1 detectives to go to the Home and 1 ask some of the other orderlies if 1 what he had confessed was not true. So yesterday Coroner Dunn and the police called at the Home and invited l three of the porters, Max Ring, Fritz l Reichert and Frank Schmidt, to come with them to the station. There the men were questioned at length, and their stories, it is said, tallied With that which Mors had told.
 smelled Chloroform in Room. Ring proved the most communica- tive. On August g, when the home was situated at Unionport, he said, ac- cording to the police, he had occasion tC go to the room of Christian Hltzel one of the inmates. Entering, he saw Superintendent Bankert sitting at one side of the bed and Mors at the other, he said. Ring said he also noticed strong odor of chloroform in the air.
 What is 2" he asked.
 "Oh nothing" he says they told him.
 However, the pair went to the win dew, threw it open. and lighted cigars and also the gas, according to Ring In a few moments the odor disap- peared, he said
 Mors Shaved Schultz.
 Ring also told the Coroner that on January A. after the home had moved to Yonkers, he stepped into the room of Ferdinand Schultz, another inmate He said he found Schultz in bed and Mors shaving him.
 What are you doing that for?" Ring asked.
 ITO save the undertaken the ] trouble'' was the reply, according to Ring.
 Again, Ring says, he noticed the odor of chloroform in the room. Two ] hours later Schultz died.
 On another occasion, he told the 1 coroner, Mors showed him a bottle i of chlorOform, rema rking: l
 That's the stuff that puts 'em out l of the way
 Cites Hauser Case.
 Ring then cited the case of Eliza l beth Hauser a y-nine-year-old in | mate, who died on December 2. In | the afternoon of that day the wom- l ans husband called to see her. She ] appeared cheerful and healthy. Be- fore leaving, the man went to get a 1 bite to eat. When he came back the woman was dead.
 Ring, according to the police said 1 Mors had done away with five in 1 mates since the home moved to Yonkers, and three before that In YOnkers chlorofOrm was used. he said while before that arsenic mor- l phine. and chlorOform had been em- ployed
 Placed Under Arrest.
 At the conclusion of his story Ring l and the two others were placed under 1 arrest and held as witnesses, while a | warrant for Superintendent Bankert | was sworn out. The three porters l were held in Yonkers, but it was l thought best to send Bankert to l White Plains.
 Amelia BonOpane, the fourteen ] year girl, who had charge of the l Homes Dispensary, was again ques- l toned at the corOners inquiry. She l said Mors had often spoken to her l of the useles:ness of the inmates and l that on one occasion he remarked | that 'it would be a good thing to get 1 rid of more of them.' The girl said 1 she repeated this talk to Superinten 1 dent Bankert and that the latter had ] promptly discharged Mors. A few days later the man made his confes- 1 sion.