The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-11
MAY ARREST
MORS TO-DAY
IN POISON CASE
Odd Fellows Home Porter
Expected to Be Released
From Bellevue.
Authorities BEGIN
TO DOUBT CONVICTION

yovKrns y. Y, Feb. 1O.--Frederic
odd Fellows Home. may be released
ron Bellevue Hospital tomorrow noon.
three hour conference this afternoon
between pr Minas : Gregory. head OF
tno psychopathc ward and the county
authorities Of The Bronx and West.
chester failed to reach conclusion as
to his mental condition. but arrange
ncnts were made to turn him over to
Deputy sheriff John g. Moore of West.
chester county, VINO planned to bring
ilu before coroner James y. Dunn on a
warrant charging him with the killing
o. Frederick Horn and others by poison
or other means at the home where he
used to b. employed.
Whatever may he the opinion Of DR..
Gregory as to the sanity OF the porter
T. Was no; divulged to Coroner Dunn.
District Attorney Weeks, Sheriff Ulrlch
wesendanser or Assistant District At
torn,y Seymour Mork OF The Bronx. who
attended the lengthy conference.
begin 90 See Doubt.
Adam Bangert. the suspended super
irtcndent, and Max Ring one Of the
portels In the home. were examined by
the alienlst and the otner officials in
Particular reference to Mors's confes sion
o. wholesale poisoning. but their tcsti-
nc. y, according 10 the authorities. only
confirmed the conviction that II Morss
story is true neither Bangert nor any
o. the others at the home mad anything
e. do with the porter's confessed actions
District Attorney Frederick c. Weeks,
Nlo has been waiting for the Coroners
minutes, said tonight that whether or
no, Mors is declared sane he will be
surrendered to Westchester county. Al
though Col. Weeks did not attend the
examination to-day he said he did not
think there was sufficient evidence to
convict anybody In the case OF murder
especially IN this county. Emphasis was
laid on the lack OF legal proof of
Mo-ss alleged "poisonings" in the home
a, Yonkers whatever may be unearthed
In Tie Bronx. No one saw Mors ad-
minister poison to his supposed victims
and no corpus deficit can be produced
in this county to take the place OF eye
tVesses.
Doubt was cast too on the possibility
or securing results from prosecution OF
Nors in Bronx county. Col. Weeks as
serted again that District Attorney Mar
TN NJ The Bronx had the whip hand.
Rut MI Martins assistant, Seymour
Mork. said tonight that he had learned
that FOwler's solution potassium arsen-
itel had been prescribed for Henry
Hsensel, one OF the supposed arsenic
poisoning" victims in The Bronx and on
'.at account elimination of the body
would disclose traces of the poison any
how without establishing the truth Of
MOrs's confession. In this connection,
however, Mr.. Mork will examine a new
Witness a girl. tomorrow who Is said
10 have dispensed drugs in the Unonpori
home as did Amelia Buonopane at Tuck.
Ahoe
There was diversity of opinion
among the officials tonight as to Mors' $
mental condition Officials who sat
through the whole examination. which
was conducted almost entirely by DR..
Gregory, who brought along the life his
tory Of Mors furnished by the man him
self, seemed TO think that DIR. Gregory
deemed Mors had lucid moments, II he
vRs not sane