Show n 9 wit nia THER W W IS N UK a U TO STAN D ff I 1 my id charged with avith murder for insurance I 1 money new york feb 24 judge higgins of ojersey Jersey city yesterday decided that police chief murphy had presented a prime facie caso against adolf legler the young man who was accused of th C in milder t I 1 ir d e r of ill his S br bro ath C it car J raj s committed to the county jail prose P rose autor speer will submit the evidence to the grand jury according to the testimony of mr mrs henry rutherford carl legler who was mas an assistant steward on a steamship and who slept with his brother alexander was severely burned one night last december A bottle which had been filled with benzine was lying on the floor door empty she testified when she and her husband were summoned by alexander who assisted in extinguishing the blazing bed bede clothing lothing A doctor dressed the h young mans burns and he was wag conva convalescent loscent five days later however alexander it is alleged administered a powder to carl who was waa attacked with convulsions and died an hour later the physician said ho he had prescribed a powder that would induce sleep R II 11 downs a drug druggist glat testified that he was well acquainted with the brothers a and nd t that hat alexander ac lagler gler frequently frequent ay visited the drug store after ills his brother was burned and while sitting in III the room where the prescription ions si aro are compounded talked about the various kinds of poison henry white an employed of an insurance company testified that carl leglers life WAS insured for s 1 alexander being the beneficiary and that tho the insurance company suspected foul play and declined to pay the amount of the policy letters found in III young Log logters lers clothing showed th that a t lie he and his father alexander Me xander IA legler gler sr were engaged 11 in promoting the Al tamaha transit company and other concerns young legler glor Is from georgia |