The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06
FOUR HELD AS
CORONER Sits
POISONING TALE
superintendent of German
Odd Fellows Home One
of Men in Custody.
CORONER THINKS EIGHT
INMATES WERE KILLED

YoNNEss. y. Y. Feb. 5.-That I'VE old
men and three old women were delib-
erately chloroformcd az they slcp, in
the German odd Fellows Home near
Nonl,oTs. that they were murdered be-
cause their age and general debility
made them too much Of burden for
those who cared for them and that their
deaths were announced simply az due
TO old age, liz now the belies OF Coroner
James j. Dunn OF Yonkers
The Coroner expressed this belief TO-
session OF the inquest which ne Is
making into the eight deaths AZ the
home lie Immediately issued warrants
for the arrest OF three porters at the
home whom he had questioned. and for
Adam Bangert. the superintendent. All
were locked up without bail as material
witnesses. The three porters are being
held at the Ioukers prison and Bangcrt
at the Westchester county Jail at White
Ilaine. As yet the four men have not
Painters story the Clue.
Coroner Dunns inquest was caused
by the story told by Frederick Mors. a
porter who was discharged from tho
home last Sunday for idzinesS. Mors
went on Tuesday to the office OF District
Attorney Perkins In New York with the
talr that eight inmates of the Odd Fol
i IA.
story was listened 20 with care. bu; he
WAS thought mentally deranged and was
sent TO the pSychopathic ward At Belle
Vue
The German odd Fellows Home was
located in Cnionport. The Bronx, until
July OF last year, when the home WAS
I moved 20 its new quarters here. II
/ now furnishes retreat for 1850 of the
! n ged members Of the society and their
! relatives Because three OF the alleged
| murders arc said TO have been com
mitted when the home occupied the
/ buildings in New York. Detectives Os-
! wald and Wllemse OF Mr.. Perkins's
/ homicide bureau were given the case.
II was on the strength OF their in
vcstlgat,-ns among the porters and in
mates of the home, as we'll s the work
of Coroner Dunn and Oief OF Police
Wolf OF Yonkers. that the warrants
were issued They questioned, among
others, Max Ring. Fritz Reichert and
/ Frank schmidt, the three porters who
are under arrest. They also got lnfor-
nation from Amelia Buonotane. the
fourteen year-old girl who was on
trusted with the care of the medicine
closet AT the home. She was let go
Coroner Sees Rig plot.
/ After the inquest tonight Coroner
/ Dunn said:
81 have no doubt from the testimony
that the eight old people at the home
were killed There was plot to get
rid Of the oldest. the most senile, those
. that We're the most In the way and
caused tho most trouble In each in
stance ] believe that rag soaked with
/ chlorOform WAS held over the face OF
/ tho victim. Each was found dead IN
! the morning and was generally supposed
10 have died during the night OF
natural causes. without medical atten-
/ ton"
Coroner Dunn also said that Dr. L
NJ Juster the homes physician. signed
tho death certificate in all of the cases
though, according TO the Coroner In on,
case he admitted that he had not seer
the deceased for six days previous I,
death.
The Coroner said that one porter
testified that ne went into the room OF
an inmate several months ago and
/ smeled there choroform. Two othe
men were there al the time. The porter
said that one of them pulled down tn,
shade and lighted the gas TO dissipat'
the odor of the drug. The Coroner sale
Ring testified to having heard what h,
thought was tho sound OF a mar
stranglnE. When he entered the room
of Henry IIaendel Ring said. he smeleC
choroform, but was told by the man II
charge that the patient was dying.
He was my boss. 40 left" sale
Ring. according to the Coroner
The aged men and women who ar.
supposed to have been murdered ar,
Christian Iitzcl, Henry Haendel, Car
Cars, who died at Unlonport Catherine
Piazza, Mrs. Frederick Frey, Mrs
Elizabeth Hansen and Henry Horn, al
of whom died at Yonkers.
Coroner Dunn will confer with Dis
trict Attorney Weeks OF Westcheste
county tomorrow morning about TAX
ing steps toward exhuming the bodies
of the eight.