The Jersey City news., 1901-11-21
MOTHER ARRESTED
Mrs. Dale Must Face
Charge Of Numbering
Her Daughter.

Mrs Elizabeth Dale, mother of Emeline,
the five-year-old child who died of poison-
ing early Tuesday morning at Bush's
Hotel, Hoboken, was placed under arrest
at the hotel late last night on charge
of murder. Elbert Waller, her compail-
ion, who accompanied her from Chicago,
returned to the hotel last night. He was
also arrested on a charge of living with.
Mrs. Dale in open lewdness. He admitted
having lived with her in the country hs
her husband for the past eight months.
The arrests were ordered after a consul
tation between Police Captain Hayes and
Assistant Prosecutor Vickers.
Waller was locked up at Police head
quarters, but Mrs. Dale was permitted to
remain at the hotel because of her fraii
physical condition. She demanded to be
taken to TIE police station, however, rs
soon as she learned that Waller Was
locked up.
She went there about 10 clock with De-
tective Weinthal and had a talk with
Captain Hayes She asked to see Waller
but Eer request was not granted. Then
she became hysterical and had to be fairly
dragged out of Captain Hayes's office.
She admitted to Captain Hayes that sne
was in love with Waller and as she was
assisted back to the hotel she exclaimed,
"Oh, let me go to him. Put me in cell,
too."
When she was taken before Recorder
Stanton for a preliminary hearing this
morning she tainted as the charge of
murder was read to her She revived
soon afterward, but was so weak that
her counsel advised that she be removed
to a hospital. She was taken to st.
Marys Hospital, wher she will remain
until she regains her strength.
Waller was araigned in court and re-
manded for further hearing next Monday
in default of $1,000 bail. Waller said that
the Dutch Consul at New York would
furnish bail as soon as he was notified.
Waller is a Hollander and is said to
come of a prominent family. He gave
his age as thirty-four and said his adj
dress was No. 154 Arch street, Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Dale admitted that she and her
husband had not been living together re-
Gently. She told the detectives yesterday
that Mr.. Dale consented to her taking
Emeline to her own home for day,
but told her it must be only for day,
and that he made threats against her
if she dared to take the child away from
Chicago. She did bring the child away
from Chicago last Friday. She was ac-
companied on the trip by Mr.. Waller
Mrs Dale's husband was expected to
arrive in Hoboken last night, but Captain
Hayes received word at late hour that
he had changed his mind and would not
come from Chicago unless his presence
was demanded by the police, saying that
he was too much overcome already by
the death of his child to subject himself
to further shock.
County Physician Converse will prob
ably perform an autopsy on the dead
child today. The bottle of strychnine tab
let's, it was learned, was bought at Wolf
stirn's drug store in Hoboken. DR.. Wolf
stirn says he had only seventy-two tab
let's When he filled the order and that he
made up the on hundred asked for with
pills. The police say that Of the twenty
eight pills only one remains in the bottle.
Mrs Dale has retained Russ & Heppen-
heimer, the Hoboken lawyers. Yesterday
afternoon she went to their office. She
knew that she would be shadowed and
invited Detective Weinthal to accompa ~
her. Later in the day she asked Wein-
thai to take her to Volks's undertaking
establishment, as she wished, she said,
to see her dead child. When she looked
at the child she exclaimed:-'Oh, my
poor darling Emmeline, how could they
say I killed your?
Mrs Dale still sticks to her story that
the child got up in the night and swal-
lowed number of the tablets, thinking
they Were candy