Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-11-28
ACCUSED OF KILLING HER CHILD
DRAMATIC SCENE WHEN THE
WOMAN is ARRAIGNED IN
COURT.
HER COMPANION IS. ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH ILLICITLY LIVING
WITH THE ACCUSED
WOMAN.

Hoboken, n. j., NOV. 22.-Mrs. ELIZA
beth Dale of Chicago, who was arrested
Wednesday accused of the murder of her
5-year-old daughter, Emmiline, yesterday
was arraigned before Recorder Stanton.
Mrs. Dale, pale and haggard, was led by
two court officers into court. she was
visibility nervous, her mouth twitcilcd and
she Criticized the arm Of her chair. She
is Of the blonde type, rather goes Jock
ing, but appears a few years older than
wcnfs-:our, the age she gave. Her slight
figure trembled violently as the clerk read
the grave charge against her. When she
heard the word murder her head fell
back and she clutchcd the arm OF her
lawyer, who occupied a seat next. her.
She called out family that she WIS i'll.
She asked that her physician be sent for,
And Then Tainted.
She was reviv@:; ::.::nr a mn"tc OF two
ana was :,hlc l:,rr to answer the few
formal questions regarding her nativity,
age and name.
Police captain Hayes who presented
the charge agaias1 her, asked that the
examination be adjourned pending the re-
suit of an autopsy by The county physi-
clan.
The adjournment was granted and on
recommendation Of her physician, tho
where she will be guarded until she is
again called into court. f. l.. Bert Wal
Ter. who was Mrs. Dale's companion when
she arrived in Ho:,i;i.sn recently, and who
was arrested yesterday on the charge of
i!lctly living with her, was also ar
| raisned in court and ordered committed
to prison in default Of $1,000 bail.
Wants to See Her Child.
While in the detectives room Mrs. Dale
| \
am charged with murder and I will go
| anywhere with you. I don't care, but I
| want to see my child. Take me to my
dead child
The detective quoted her and later on
she sent a telegram to her husband in
Chicago. 1t was clearly written in a
steady hand and said:
Harvey, come on. This is horrible
treatment you are giving me-"
The message was taken to the telegraph
office by one of the detectives Later DIR.
J<udlich arrived in coach and Mrs. Dale
was taken to ST. Mary's hospital.
| Waller, when arraigned, said his home
| was in Rotterdam, Holland, and he had
no friends ir this country.
| County Physician Converse has not set
a date for the autopsy on the body of the
child, but the coroner's jury has been i'm
| paneled.
Capt Hayes of the Hobollen police said
tonight that he had falled TO ma any
motive for the killing of the cililS by it's
| mother, if she Gid do it. He said further:
| "All I know is that as aoon as the
| father of the child was te,ecrarhed that
she was dead from poison Il, wired here
through relatives for an investigation to
be made and a charge of rrIrder to be
brought if the circumstances seemed to
warrant it. We then began III? investiga-
ton and found that Mrs. Dale and her
husband had been at Odds
Poison Purchased in Chicago.
| Chicago, Nov. 22-It has been discovered
| that the strychnine tablets when were
| the cause of the death OF the liva-year-
| old daughter of Mrs. Harvey s. Dale were
| purchased proba ,iy ir Chicago sna night
before Mrs. Da,s and her friend, Elbert
| Waller. left for She East.
1t is learned further. that Mrs. Dale
and Mr. Waller We're fond of pet dogs
/ and had three running about the house
1 in which they lived at 4S3 Belden avenue.
Two weeks ago one of these dogs died Of
poison, supposed to have been placed
| in the yard by neighbor The day Mrs.
! Dale left for the East another died in
commissions, and Mrs. Mathilaa Miller,
who had the third i'll charge, after Mrs.
| DaleS departure, found that it was all
ing. Mrs Dale is the daughter of a
| physician.