The sun., 1919-04-19
VANISHED MUELLER
GIRL FOUND HERE
Physicians Daughter in Fur
nished Room in East
26th Street.
BRONX MAN ARRESTED
Benjamin Sherman Charged
With AbductiOn-Second
Prisoner i'm Newark.

Viola Mueller, the fourteen-year- old
daughter of. n Newark physician for
whom the police OF three States have
been looking for more than a week, was
playing Love Me and the World Is
Mine" on n piano in a furnished room
In East Twenty-sixth street when Detec-
tives William Hauptman and Frank
Mulahey of the West 125th street sta
ton opened the door yesterday morning
and placed her under arrest
The girl at first denied her identity,
but later admitted she was the daughter
of DIR. and Mrs. George A. Mueller and
that her home was 20 Baldwin street,
Newark. Viola thereupon smilingly sug-
gested that perhaps the police had had
some chase" after her, and asked for
permission to dress before going to the
station. AS she was clad at the time Ill
a pink kimono the detectives assented.
At. the station the girls bravado
changed to hysteria. She told the
matron that she had been. suffering from
aphasia and later when she was taken
to the rooms of the Children's Society in
East Twenty-second street she required
Two men, one of them charged with
abduction, and the other, Harold j.
Beatty, who the police say was arrested
in 1914 for white slavery. are held under
heavy bail to explain the girls disap-
pearance from her home a week and a
half ago and her subsequent wanderings.
Shortly after Viola had been found the
police arrested Benjamin Sherman. 81.
said to be a manufacturer with offices n
995 Simpson street. The Bronx. He was
formally charged with abduction. Beatty.
who is Porto Rican, has been under
arrest in Newark for several days on
$1,000 bail.
Sherman said that last Monday while
he was walking in Broadway Viola ap-
preached him and said:
Are you a Mason?"
When he replied in the affirmative she
then said
MY father is a Mason. and am IN
great trouble. Can't you help me?"
Sherman said that he toSk her to the
rooming house In East Twenty sixth
street. where he introduced her to the
landlord as his sister and paid $40 for
rent In advance.
Detectives previously had obtained a
statement from Nathan Cries. son of the
proprietor, confirming this part OF the
story. Cries said that Sherman at that
time and subsequently declined to give
his name, stating only that he was her
brother
1t was at the sight OF Lieut.. John A.
Brady OF the Newark vice squad that
the girl broke down. He questioned her
briefly and she told him. he said, that
Beatty had been exerting hypnotic In
fiuence over her. but that she loved him.
Lieut. Brady said that Beatty has a
police record involving similar charges
and will be brought to this city imme-
diately to be heard in connection with
the case.
Mrs. Mueller stated yesterday that she
had sought an interview with Beatty,
who had been in Newark ostensibly to do
some work as window decorator,
shortly after the disappearance of her
daughter. From some source she learned
that the two had met. She was unable
to learn anything of the girls where
abouts from him. she said.
Viola later told the police that a man
had taken her from Newark TO Boston
and thence to this city.
II love him and he loves me-" she said.
"He said he would be father to me and
that he had some one who would be q
mother TO me-