The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-12
ROBBERS FELL
MAN IN OFFICE
Gardiner G. Hull, Fulton st.
Stati0ner, Probably Nor
tally Wounded.
MYSTERY IN THE ATTACK
Clues in Finger Prints Left on
Checks and on Hammer
Used as Weapon.

UseU dS WetpOH.
Thomas Timonylo. porter Of the
Downing Building at 1oS Fulton street,
began his daily tour Of the offices.
closing windows and making things
shipshape soon after s o'clock yes
terday afternoon. 1t was 5:15 when
he reached the fourth floor and
stopped at the offices of Hull & Dep
pisch. stationers. who occupy two
small rooms in the back of the build
ing. Finding that Gardiner c. Hull,
senior partner OF the firm and a girl
stenographer were still in the offices.
he continued his rounds and II was
fifteen minutes later when he visited
the stationer's place OF business again.
The porter had entered the little
room and was advancing toward the
window when for the second time he
saw the senior partner Of the firm. this
time lying on the floor between his
desk and the radiator near the wind w.
his head covered with blood which
had already made a little pool on the
cement floor.
unconscious Timonylo rushed down to
the office of the superintendent of the
building, from where police from the
Old Slip station and DR.. Nachasum of
the Volunteer Hospital were summoned.
Meanwhile the superintendent and his
helper raised the unconscious mans
head and placed a towel under 1t. be-
lieving that his wounds were not of
much consequence and that he had
struck his head on the radiator as he
fell in a fainting Mt
Four wounds at Base of/sLull.
The ambulance surgeons examination
revealed four wounds at the base of the
skull, apparently inflicted with a sharp
instrument. The skull was fractured in
as many places and portions OF the brain
were injured, with tho victims chances
OF recovery poor. the surgeon added. The
unconscious man was removed to the
Volunteer Hospital where at late hour
he had not recovered consciousness and
the physicians held out small hopes of
his living.
The man had been brutally assaulted
and probably the cash drawer had been
robbed, though this IL not certain in
the space OF fifteen minutes, while Full
ton street. Nassau and William, and the
elevators of the Downing Building itself
were hlled with homegoing throngs.
The frm Of Hull q Depplsch Is COM
posed OF Gardiner C. Hull. Sc years old,
Of TAI Chauncey street. Brooklyn. and
August Deppisch. who lives at Hicks
Vile. L. 1. Mr.. Hull was the active
partner in the concern and attended to
all financial details. His partner Ii a
minister who, while not regularly at
tached to any church. visits prisoners In
Long Island Jails. He was one of the
few persons who saw DR.. Wilkins after
the latter's CONJUNCTION OF murder and
was called as a witness at the suicide
inquiry.
Mr.. Hull is married and has one
daughter. whose husband. Everett Jones,
died during the influenza epidemic last
winter, and who lives with her parenta
Both Mrs. Jones and her mother have
been spending the summer at Caldwell,
N. j.. where Mr.. Hull was accustomed
to pass the week ends.
The stenographer who was with Mr.
Hull when he was last seen alive is
Mary Smith. She left the building soon
after the porter first entered the office,
according TO her statement to the police
last night. Whether any other employees
OF the firm remained in the once after
- "a
der investigation. Detectives assigned
to the case refused to state whether any
other persons had seen Mr.. Hull after
the stenographer left the ONCE.
They did reveal, however. that ham,
mer with bloodstains on the handle and
head had been found on a table in the
adjoining room and that finger print
experts were examining It as well as
the papers on Mr.. Hull's desk.
Finger Prints on Checks.
Among the latter were a number of
checks which lay In a small cash box
on the senior partners desk. These
checks bore the imprint of blood smeared
fingers. Whether any money had been
placed In the cash box along with the
checks was another point under inves-
tigation.
II robbery was the motive for tho
crime the person or persons who COM
mitted the assault overlooked the VIC
TINS watch and the small sum OF money
on his person. The assailant or assail-
ants probably were frightened away by
some other tenants OF the building pass
ing the door on their way toward the ele-
vator. Then It would be easy to get to
the street to be lost in the stream of
homeward bound clerks and stenograph-
ers who I'LL Fulton. Nassau and William
streets almost from curb to curb at the
hour when the crime must have been
committed.
Mrs. Hull and her daughter were sum-
moned to tho hospital from Caldwell by
saIa ioh k0V Lac a