New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
GOnkerS Coroner Now
Sure Old Inmates Were
ChlOrOfOrmed.
MORS THOUGHT MAD
WHEN HE CONFESSED
Superintendent, Girl and
Two POrters Held as
Chief Witnesses.

When Friedrich Mors walked into
District Attorney Perkins's Office on
Tuesday and announced that he had
killed eight useless octogenarian in
mates Of the German Odd Fellows
Home, in Yonkers, he was looked upon
as lunatic and sent to Bellevue. Yes
terday Coroner James P. Dunn, Of
Yonkers, announced his belief in the
truth of the story OF Mors, and after
an Investigation four arrests were
made
Adam Bangert. superintendent OF the
home. was locked up in White Plains
jail as material witness Two por-
tcrs, MAJ Ring and Fritz Reichert,
we're put IN the lonkers city jail and
Amelia Buonopenc. fourteen year old
servant. was paroled in the custody Of
the matron Of the home. A warrant
for the arrest of another porter, Frank
Schmidt, was not served.
There is no question that Mors
killed all eight people said the Cor
oner. "All we're chloroformed.'
Ring corroborated the story told by
Mors in all its details. He has not
seen the Bellevue prisoner since the
revelations came out, and the Coroner
places great reliance on his testimony.
Aors will probably be taken to Ion-
kerS to-day, when the prisoners are
further grlled BY Coroner Dunn and
District Attorney Weeks, who will
enter the case al this time.
Says One Died Hard.
According 10 Ring. one Of the aged
inmates of the home disappointed Ban
CERT when he did not die from a fall
from his bed "My God. we'll never
get rid of him" the superintendent vas
quoted by the witness as saying. An
other case was told of where Stephen
Bleymar, who is past ninety, lay be
side an inmate who was chloroformed
and knew nothing about it until morn
ing.
The German home moved to Yon-
kerS from Unionport in The Bronx.
last June. The alleged killings had
been going on prior to that time. ac-
cording 20 testimony. Ring told how
he went into room one morning ard
discoyered the stronb smell OF chloro-
form.
keep still" he said Bangert replied.
"ths mans dying" With that Mors,
who was also present. lighted the gas.
although the sun had been up some
time. Ii was explained that the burn
ing of gas covered up the odor OF the
The porter further testified that he
believed at least three inmates had
been killed before the home moved 10
Yonkers. lie declared that arsenic
was used in one case.
At Yonkets Police Headquarters the
odor Of chloroform and iodoform was
strong last night. This. it was said,
and effects Of Mors had been removed
TO headquarters from the institution
in Tuckahoe Road
Nors Denies Insanity.
New York officials are cooperating
with the Yonkcrs and Westchester
County authorities. Detectives Oswald
and Willemse. Of the homicide bureau
in this city, have been on the case. and
il was through their conversations with
Mors in Bellevue that the detailed
corroboration Of Rings testimony was
established.
The death Of Henry Horn is the case
used as a test in the present investi-
CATION. J he other alleged victims OF
the easy way TO eliminate undesirable
inmates were Christian Hitzel. Henry
Hendle, Carl Gass. Mrs. Katherine Pi-
azza, Mrs. Frederica Frey, Mrs. Eliza
beth Howeson and Ferdinand Scholz.
According to Mors, when he visited
the District Attorneys office here, he
was not lunatic, but desperately un-
fortunate.
Sunday ] was fred" he said. al
most penniless came TO New York,
where a violent desire came over me
to go back to the Fatherlsnd. ! knew
] could not obtain passage money, so
determined to try the scheme of telling
the authorities that ] had assisted in
several murders | thought would
promptly be daported as an undesir-
able alien
Mors was for a time a student at
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