The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-15
FINDS PROOF OF
PART OF M0RS
POISONINGTALE
Sheriff Gets Note Found i'm
Clock by One of Men
i'm Custody.
CALLED
TO FACE ACCTSER

WHITE PLAINS. n. Y, Feb. lt.-Sher-
m Weiscndangcr had a long interview
to-day with Frederic Mors and elected
from him information. supported by
other persons named by Mors. which he
believes is corroborative of the former
~porter's story that he caused the deaths
Of eight persons in the German d
Fellows Home.
Adam Bangert, the former superin-
iendent of the home. was taken to Mors's
cell-which is the same as that &C.
cupied for u time by Harry Thaw-
and there Mors accused him OF con-
niving with him In putting old men
and women out OF their misery. Bangert
turned pale as Mors pointed his finger
at him and declared that he was in
tho room at the time the poison was
administered in one case. Bangert de-
MED the charge. but afterward admitted.
according to the Sheriff. that he was
in the room when IIcrry Haensei died.
what interest would l have IN caus.
ing his DEATH asked Bangert.
what interest did | have" retor,ed
Mors. except that II was to your In
terest? Why don't they take up
Haensel's body? Examination will show
how | pencll,ed the mouth 60 as 10
destroy the marks of the arsenic"
Rehenrses part for sheriff.
Mors rehearscd for the Sheriff iii, sew
AZ - go, -
He also said that he had left a bottle
OF chloroform with the THREE por;crs who
are now under arrest with Bangert. lie
said after he left the bottle In their
cottage he went 10 New York with the
intention of ending his own life. Ar
irving there he decided TO tell his story
% the District Attorney. but was m
formed by two policemen that he would
be unable TO see tho District Attorney
until the next day. He returned TO
Yonkers and wrote A note. This. he
told the sheriff. he stuck in the bell Of
an alarm clock.
Max Ring. one of the portcrs under
arrest, said that he didn't find the
note.
Sheriff weisendanger then asked
Frank Schmidt. another porter who Is
. prisoner. If he got II. Schmidt said
he found the note and gave II to Mrs.
bAt SttA III 81 N''N ~ Nv A''Ai
and asked her to keep II. The sheriff
then took Schnid, to the home and
found Mrs. Zeerleine. She said that
she didn't know what was In the note
or the package that was left beside the
alarm clock and which was given TO
her by Schmidt TO keep. She said the
note and package were in her DIRE sser.
rhe Sheriff went to her room and found
both, the package being wrapped in
brown ma nor AZ MnrE had said Ina loft IL
TIL package contained the chloroform
and a hunting knife belonging to Mors.
The note said
81 cave a package with chloroforn
and my hunting knife. / ask YOU. Max
Ring, to take care of these until some
time later. Keep the chloroform in a
cool. dark place
Sheriff Wc!sendanger also talked with
Christian Biumgarten. a seventy-seven-
y~ear-old inmate OF tho home. He said
that Mors had given him morpainc ia
relieve pains in his head and on one
occasion used crloroform. He said he
begged Murs to give him enough to put
him out Of tho way. hut Mors refused,
he said, telling him that that vas only
done in the case 81 the very aged and
TO relieve IN 80 who we're suffering in
tense pain. H." said M,re told him tina
his trouble was not chronic and that he
would live "a long time,
YoNkERs. y. Y. Fch. li-Tnc min
utes OF an the testimony taken by
Coroner James =. DUNN in his investiga
ton of the story OF Frederi' Mors. a
former porter !u the German odd Eel
lows Home. will be presented to District
Attorney Frederick e. Weeks Tomorrow
At a conference OF both ofncials &c
determine some course Of action.
The officials Of Westchester county
expect 10 get a more detailed report
from Dr. Minas :. Gregory OF Bellevue
Hospital aS to Mors's mental condition
This viii probably be the basis FOR ar
application 10 the supreme o for
a commission 10 inquire int the pris'
oner's sanity.
Assistant District Attorney Seymour
Nork OF the Bronx said to-day tina
lie does not expect to cxhume the body
~ the supposed arsenic victim, Henri,
flaensel, unless he gets more definit,
proof than he has now. lie has ques
toned tho girl who preceded Anelis
Ruonopane AZ the "apothecary" in thu
r%rionport home, but the girl. Minnie
Sclm"lz. also ~. did not furnish ths
Corroboration Mors said she would