The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-13
HILDA PETERSEN IN JAIL.
PoLICE BELIEVE SHE KILL nd HER
CHILD FOR LoVE OF n NAN.

The Confessed NIurders-s writes to . swedish
Tailor Tn BroohiSn fmplorinE Him to
Help Her-Detective Captain McClusky
Takes Ne Sleek In the Accomplish Theory.
Itilda Petersen, who murdered her 3-ycar-old
daughter Annie at Rockville Centre, l.. J.. on
tho night OF March 4, was turned over to tho
police OF that village by Magistrate Simms In
the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday.
She was taken to the Jail in Long Island City
and put in the cell occupied by Mrs. Mack dur
ing her Imprisonment there.
In court the woman appeared calm and self
possessed. She was not asked to make any
statement. Can't. McClusky explained the cir
cumstances in the case to tho Magistrate and
the latter turned the woman over to Chiefsof
Police Shelly of Rockville Centre.
To q U reporter Capt. McClusky eaid that
he did not expect any fresh developments instho
case. Tho positive Identification OF the child
and tho confession Of the mother left nothing
undiscovered except the possibility OF her hav-
ing had an acoomplice. Tho head of tho Do
tective Bureau did not believe in the accom-.
plice theory. he said, because thereJsn't the
slightest evidence to show that anybody but
the mother was concerned in tho murder.
The prisoner while at Police Headquarters
yesterday wrote q letter to A. Dahluuist of III
Fourth avenue. Brooklyn. Dahlquist is a
swede, 25 years old, q tailor. and the police bo-
lieve that no was Hilda's lover. The letter was
written In Swedish. and, translated. was as
follows:
MI DEAR DAuLeu1sT-Now you cannot como to see
mo moro a. I eau think that you heard about my
trouble in which I am sitting here crying SO my heart
rode to Jail to-day for l have done harm to my little
sirl AND nap nay s, /, don't Heb s,pp met ss. ss Sp s s9ss m 7 ri %. % naHs
week. Don't let Forsoil see this. Answer me good.
From your naughty
r. s.-Dear Dahlquist-Help me in my trouble.
The police have another latter from Miss
March 8, Ave days after the murder. There
had evidently been a quarrel between the two.
her. declaring that the stories he has heard
about her are untrue, and that she loves him
passionntely. There is no reference to the MUIR
Dahlquist and the man referred to in the wo-
mans letter as Forsell live at 3s1 Douglass
shop at ,I75. Fourth avenue: Forseli said yes
she was IA years old. They lived in the same
village in Sweden. Up to Two months ago, said
FSrsell. the woman worked In the home ZONE Of sam n
charged for being, ,impudent to Mrs; Unger.
She went to Forsell's wife and asked permits
sion to make her home there until she could get
soils Ave weeks. during which time she and
Dahlquist were very friendly.
Forsell he said that he had never spoken g word
Of oti love e to C6 Miss o Ps'e snS her ! h6 man said named anS s Mi1 5o5
told him that she loved Wilson and would
| willingly die for him. She, was. q fckle girl,
said Dahlaulst, and ready to fall in love with
almost amy man. She was running around with
so many men,. though. he said, that he was
afraid she would get in trouble. and not caring
to be involved he kept away from her. Ho
couldn't understand why she should writo to
him, he said.
Aaron Olsen. who lives ct SGT Barley street.
Brooklyn, and whose wife Is q cousin of Miss
Petersen. said yesterday.
"Hilda Petersen is a cruel and wicked woman.
She was brought up by her uncle, my wife's
father. Her mother was dmenteed. Hild9's
father treated his wife brutally. One night he
lured her out into the woods. and strangled her.
1t was said that he did II because OF another
capped punishment because there were no wit
nesses to the murder.
"Hilda brought her child here In October;
1896. when it. was g baby: We took 1T in and
child came we didn't feel able to take care OF
Hilda's child any longer, She promised to take
1t away, but didn't until Friday, March 4.
she came here about $50 o'clock that sf-
ternoon and announced that she had como for
the baby. The little one was playing with my
child in the kitchen. and, as IT was stcrming.
day. Hilda refused to wait. saying that she
had made arrangements to take the baby to an
institution In Vanderbilt avenue. The little
one said: Mamma, don't take me now. want
to play in the back yard
.'Hiida was very cross and replied: Come.
hurry up; I want YOU to go with me now My
wife dressed the child and Hilda took 1t away.
That was tho last We heard of her until we read
vile Centre TO identify tho body"
The funeral services over the child were held
yesterday in q stuble in the rear Of the under-
takers shop at Rockville Centre; They were
Church of the Ascension. Tho interment will
probably take place to-day.