The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-08
HINTS MURDERS
BY WHOLESALE
IN I.O.O.F.HOME
Coroner Says Evidence
Points to Unbelievable
Disclosures.
COMPLETELY OF AN
OFFICIAL MOOTED


raUu- disclosures ending T. prove
"o rol.su, murder" and criminal com
ru.'s. 90 least ,ulpable negligence. or
TIE par, " orc Of the officials connected
VIA tho German odd Fellows Home
o. the Tuckahoe road we're promised
to.azht by Coroner James =. Dunn as
= result o. investigations In three coun.
t.. ot the deaths Of eight feeble old
Inmates NJ 'he home whose end for
me- porter now 70 the observation ward
a, Bellevue Hospital. said ho FASTENED
b. raisor.
Coroner Dunn made public last night
the statement made last Tuesday by
Mlrs 10 Deputy Assistant District At;or-
ney Deacon Murphy In this statement.
which was az first reported as the raw
sngs Of q mad man, Mors confessed the
eight murders now under investigation.
T. viii ne several days. Coroner Dunn
estimates. before all the evidence is
vaipped into presontable shape. and
then hs added. people will scarcely be-
levc the revelations he expects to
make. n tho story OF Frederic Men
srik-Mors a. he called himself, the
dLchar-ed porter is found to he true,
tho Coroner Is prepared to show in
,lca case why the death OF the inmate
vas desired From the other porters
ard from other attendants at the in
s;tution no has learned. he said to-
night. circumstances and remarks of
Mors winch Immediately preceded the
deaths OF the Old people and which
tend to bear out the truth Of the mans
confession even more than the poison
md surgical instruments found in his
closet NJ the odd Fellows home
Snre of Convictions.
VIVA, these startling disclosures will
~ was indicated tonight both by the
Coroner and by Chief Of Police Wolf
Wolf said frankly that hc expected to
ne able 10 prove wholesale murders"
at the German odd Fellows Home AM
that vnen tho time come ne will have
sufficient evidence to convict several
persons. Coroner Dunn said Bangcrt
had not told all he knew about the
conduct of the home and the deaths
of inmates. lie will also call again Dr..
Jua'er. with whose testimony nc said
tonight he was not entirely satisfied
The most sensational development
along this line to-day WAS the discovery
o. the sudden disappearance OF signed
statement which Mors made to saugert
=, the latter's request Lieut.. Patrick
MoGoWdn Of the Yonkers police went
% the home this afternoon TO get It
tor the Coroner. but could not find IL.
Il is said to be gerry important.
According to information in the hands
OF The authorities Mors told Robert
Mensc the present superintendent, that
all ID" needed was some more medicine
for those sick patients that would put
them out Of thu way" AIenge told
bangert what Mors said and Rangert
Is supposed to have got Mors to sign
statement IN German denying what he
had told Menge and referring to the
whole thing as joke
To Question Underwriters.
Coroner Dunn would not say whether
10 expected to find that other deaths
had been FASTENED. hut he will confer
with District Attorney Weeks OF West
chester county tomorrow after getting
reports OF the New York and Yonkers
"lertivos The next witnesses he will
eau, he said would probably he August
Hahn and Louis Becker Of 936 First
avenue, Manhattan the undertakers who
buried All eight Of the old people be-
UeN'i 10 have been victims of poison
Ih" German odd Fellows undertook
m investigation Of their own to-day
Ioey also are working in cooperation
WIN the authorities to sift the case &c
me bottom Thirteen ~ the twenty,
tNre" members Of the hoard OF directors
oi mo home spent most Of the day hero
examining every one connected with the
n'"" Frank e. Fuchs. president OF the
nome AMI Thomas W. Mcknight grand
master OF tho German Odd Fellows \
lawyer OF Manhattan. VINO IL counsel
10. we order, conducted the investiga
ION but as Coroner Dunn had all the
books and records which would tend tC
h'o" light on the situation their search
u'a rather handicapped. They are IN
o'n"d 10 doubt tho veracity Of Nors',
ne" but in the face OF the findings Of
authorities they are absolutely non
hl-S'1 and want to help all they can
Inmates Not Worried.
= ougn back stairs" gossip It was
san that soma OF the inmates were
considerably disturbed over the revela.
IONS concerning the deaths of thciI
''rne. companions Most of them, how,
''r. laugh AZ the story Of the man nov
m 30 I'vuc No alarm could be seen by
'all"r tnls afternoon. The usun
1No'nle games were in progress in tn,
'N'r'tg room and the customary cx
'.tHr0 Of gossip In other quarters
N".r Visitors than Is usual journeyeC
" '3o place to-day. Most of the in,
ti's sFlrpathi2e with Adam Bangert
no. suspended superintendent, now held
3D." material witness, with three por
'".t IN 'h" white Plains iail.
I"" rap.ditY with which the mex
moves in III" official Investigations ar,
"i' depend on the outcome of the eV,
~. nation Of Mors AZ Bellevue Hospital
pHFe br Mlnas S Gregory, head o.
Tho psy nop3thiC ward. has him In
Hrgr nr. Gregory and his medca
nav" not set completed their oh
'r''Nons Of the man, but some con
1n va. he reached probably TO-DAY
M tomorrow DR. Gregory would eN
'''.s no opinion until the examination
Wished lie believes II best not :,
''-to0 tho man too much just at pres
Whatever his report 20 the MaGs
,"l' who committed Mors, however
.' man W.ll hC arrested on a Warrln
.HM N"ct"hest"r county as soon az n.
1arged from the hospital
INr authorities OF Wcstcheste
'NH'', coroner Dunn and District Al
"rh'y Weeks, are working in conjunc