The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-10
SHOWS HOW SHE
MIXED MORS'S
POISON DOSES"



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measure out this much and wrap it up
IN paper They told me to do II many
times"
There was not an apothecary scale
or q graduate glass in sight, but the
simple girl measured out two samples
81 the usual amount for the Sheriff
and he had them weighed afterward
one OF the two doses Of asperin weighed
tweuty-seven grains and the other thirty
grains. The girl said she was directed
to put up such a dose sometimes four
To six times n day for some patients
II was administered to them, she said,
In a glass OF water. II was estimated
that these patients got from 100 to $50
grains Of the drug in ten hours. while
physicians fix the normal dose of asperin
at ., 10 and 10 grains three to four
times a day.
Even more startling to the Sheriff was
Amelia's account of putting up codene
for Mors. There was bottle of u
grain tablets on the shelf. from which
she measured them out as directed al
though she had not the slightest idea
Of the potency Of the drug or what ii
was used for
Plenty OF them" had been Mors's d.
rcCtiou to her. she told the Sheriff. dip
ping the bottle and spillng out the
plenty" as she had given Il to Mors
quantity she doled out making about
seven grains. enough, the Sheriff said.
to put an old person out OF the way
II given In one dose She put them in
a box for the Sheriff. It will be one OF
the exhibits the county authorities are
gathering to support their case against
the man now In Bellevue. Another that
was added to the list tonight went to
show, they contended, that drugs and
poisons were common property about the
home, and even matters OF careless in
difference.
Poison ms PInythinE.
Twelve-year-old Basidot Lazlth and
thirteen-year-old Charles Fairle. two
Of the hundred odd children under ~
In the orphanage attached to the home,
were found kicking about the grounds
! this afternoon blue triangular shaped
bottle labelled "bichloride OF mercury"
and almost flled with triangular tab
| lets. II had been found in the refuse
/ heap outside the back door on the path
used by the pOrters to 60 from the
I home to their quarters in "A nearby
/ frame house. Leopold Gullner. the
/ aged stable man. took the bottle away
/ from the children and scaled II for the
| Coroner. President Fuchs and Matthew
RiChartz, one of the house committee,
were standing near when the bottle was
escaped from some ones lips was
! "Hmmel there's poison every place.
Coroner Dunn OF Westchester took
/ the last OF his testimony to-day and viii
present the minutes OF his hearings n
| District Attorney Frederick G. Weeks
tomorrow afternoon. he said. He aues-
toned Henry Blum, embalmcr for Hahn
& Becker, undertakers of 1886 First ave-
nue., Manhattan, who took charge Of tha
deaths I'm the home. Blum denied the
remark attributed to Mors, Here's an
other one for YOU" and that he Mors
was helping the undertakers' business.
He did say. however, in contradiction
to Bangert's testimony that Mors al
/ ways had the key to the morgue in the
home on his key ring.
The investigation by Assistant District
Attorney Mork in The Bronx led him
to say tonight that there was gross
and disgraCeful neglect" in the man
agement OF the Odd Fellows home when
in Unionport Mr. Mork IL trying 10
fix responsibility for such alleged con-
a!:.on=. Ne .n:erds - call H"forA hir
again former Supt. Bangert and Or T.
NJ. Juster, the visiting physician AT the
home. He has learned. he said, that
Or. Juster was not called when in
mates were dying frequently,
one Of the gruesome chapters In
Mors's story was revealed for the first
.
, length with Detectives Willemse and Os
wald of the homicide squad. Wnlems,
. and Oswalde, who have been assigned
to the case and to Mr.. Mork by Capt
Carey. have visited Mors at Bellevu,
, Hospital and got from him description
of how he despatched his alleged vic
Tins.
Justides Killing Aged.
Mors, clad in a striped pair Of pa
jamas related the story while sittini
In bed Several times ne reiterated hi
belief tina; the law should provide 70
, the determination Of dependent persons
: He constantly repeated. as though t.
impress the detectives with his humanity
: that he did not Kill the victims unit
1 he had first made them immune Il
I pain by administering choroform,
He told the detectives that he first ap
piled the fluid. 20 a piece OF cotton ant
? held it to the victims nose. "Whei
. they were quite unconscious" Mors 4
= said TO have confessed to the detectives
. 81 washed their mouths out with so
, luton of formalin to take away N
9 odor Of chloroform."
. John Zuska and his wife and VIII
lam Benge, the only occupants of IN
I Enionport home where three OF the mur
ders are said to have been committed
were visited to-day by Mrs Mary HRS
a detective attached to District Attol
ney Martins office. To her they re
p told the stories published in yesterda
mornings SUN about the coming O
Mors. his characteristics and the inc
= dent about forcing Gass. one of tn
j. alleged victims, to drink "A murl<y fiui
G supposed to have caused his death tn
h day after. They said that they wer
1. willing to testify against Mors If no
r. brought to trial
Y Mrs Hirst inspected the various buid
g ings comprising the old home and wa
Il particularly impressed by the morgue,
g n small brick building nine feet squar
a and about seven feet high In ii sh
found a rough wooden coffin frozen
n the ground. In another corner was
, plain wooden embalming table some
times used by the undertakers, Mr.
Zuska explained.
II President Frank Fuchs of tine nom
/, admitted that he had asked District Al
/, torney Martin to eNhume one of the a
. legged arsenic victims.
, Managers of Home Vote TO Aid In
N yestigntion.