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Show MURDER CONFESSION AFFECTS PHYSICIANS Inquiry Into Death of Inmates of Lodge Home Widens In Scope. YOXKEB3, X. Y.; Feb. 6. Investigation Investi-gation of Fred Mors' story that he put to de.ath eight aged and infirm members mem-bers of the German Odd Fellows ' home here, " because they were old and a nuisance," nui-sance," extended today to physicians who are said to have signed the death certificates in some of the cases. Adam Bangert, superintendent of the home, and three porters are under arrest as material witnesses. Mors is in Bellev-ue hospital. Xew York City, under the surveillance of alienists. The coroner said that the three porters por-ters told 'him that when an inmate of the home died a certain mark was chalked on thei door of the room in which the body lay and that a physician physi-cian was supposed to see this mark and examine the bodv before issuing the death certificate. The porters said, according to the coroner, that in some instances the doors had been passed by and the death certificate made out showing the cause of death to be apop-lexv. apop-lexv. According to the story told by Mors, when he walked into the district attorney's attor-ney's office in ew York a few days ago, five inmates were killed with an anaesthetic and three with other drugs. |