New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
'MORS ACCUSES
HEAD OF Home
Self Confessed POisOner
Says Bangert Is Part
ner in Guilt.
LATTER DENIES ALL;
is HELD AS WITNESS
Admits lie Was Present When
One Inmate Of German Odd
Fellows Home Died.

Frederick Mors, former porter IN the
German Odd Fellows Home in Ionkcrs.
accused Adam Bangert, superintendent
Of the institution, to his face yestcr-
day Of participating in the murders
Mors says he committed. The CONVEX
sation was in the cell OF the White
Plains Jail formerly occupied by Harry
Thaw. II is now Mors's quarters.
Sheriff Ulrich Wiescndangcr was pres
cnt.
You know you are as much TO blame
as l." said Mors ia German
Bangert, pale and nervous, denied
the accusation. Mors insisted that
Bangcrt had been in the room with
him when the victims died. Again
Bangert denied II. but when pressed
by Mors he admitted that they had
been together at ono death bed.
What interest would have in put
ting these people out Of the way?
asked Bangcrt.
What interest would | have re-
torted Mors. unless II was to your IN
terest. too"
Additions to his story yesterday con-
WINGED Wiesendanger that the man was
telling the truth. Search in tho home
revealed a package of chloroform and
note which Mors said he left there
when ne came TO New York 10 give
himself up.
Mors said that when he finally left
the place because he was sickened by
the acts which were urged upon him
he left 100 grams Of chloroform and
note to Max Ring, another porter
Ring is also n prisoner. He told the
Sheriff that the note had been turned
over TO Mrs. Agnes IwCrlein. the cook.
Sheriff Niesndanger went AZ once
10 the home ia Ionkers, accompanied
by Ring. Mrs. Iwerlcin remeT red
that Ring had given her a package.
She didn't have any idea what was IN
il. but il was in drawer Of her, ou-
reau. Upstairs went the searching
party. and in the bureau was a pack
age. tied with shoestring. as MorS had
described it With il was this note:
81 leave package with chloroform
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
When he wrote this note. Mors said
ne had just been dissuaded from TAX
ing his own life. When he left the
place he confded to Ring and another
employe. he said, that he intended TO
do away with himself. They per
suaded him to go to the authorities in
stead and tell his story.
He tried to get to District Attorney
Perkins. he said, twice before any one
would listen TO him. On his first WISH.
a policeman told him he could not see
any one that day. Then he returned
and left the chloroform and note for
ling. He stuck the note in an alarm
clock. he said That part Of his story
was also verified by Wiesendanger.
While at the institution the Sheriff
took up another part Of Mors's story.
Mors had told him that Christian
Baumgartcn had implored him to re-
lieve him from his sufferings. Mors
refused, he said.
Baumgarten was in his room yester-
day. He told Wiesendanger that Mors's
assertion was true.
~ had severe pains in my head said
the old man. 81 could not sleep, and
had taken so much morphine that it
made me sick. asked Mr.. Mors to
give me something else to make me
sleep. He took some chloroform and
with his handkerchief covered my face.
Then he dropped the chloroform or it,"
Baumgarten illustrated to the Sheriff
tho actions of Mors. His depletion was
almost an exact duplicate of the per-
Torrance Mors himself had given but
a short time before.
81 slept continued Baumgarten;
chow | slept! When woke up |
begged Mr.. Mors to give me more. that
! might die and be rid OF my pains.
lie told me that the pains were not
serious. that ] had many years to live
yet and he would not kill me-"
That, too, was in accord with Mors's
story,
MOrs said that he never killed any
/ but the very old. and then only when
they suffered. Asked by the Sheriff
Why he sometimes used arsenic and
sometimes chloroform. he replied that
at first he used arsenic. but after TAX
ing it the patient required too mach
attention. He changed TO chloroform
with much more satisfactory results,
/ he said.
/ 81 am a convert of theism, which
/ means God universal Of ALL" dc.
Clarcd Mors.
Wiescndanger declared that so far
as his descriptions of his own acts
we're concerned he was convinced that
Mors spoke the truth.
Coroner Dunn announced yesterday
4 that he had found the source Of Mors'.
drug supply used TO put the inmates OF
the home out of the way. II was pur-
chased outside Of the home. he said
Dunn believes that his discovery will
aid in prosecuting the inquiry to dc
termine whether any one aided Mors in
his acts. Both chloroform and arsenic
/ it was said, were purchased in New
York in extraordinary quantities.