Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-14
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Special by GATED Fr@.s Wire.
Albany, N. T., Jan. I4:--Mrs. Id
ith Melber, self-confessed murderess
of her four-year-old son George,
will be brought here either late to-
day or tomorrow from Rochester.
She il in such a state OF collapse
that the plan to bring her to Albany
this morning had to be abandoned.
An Indictment charging murder In
the frst degree, Will be returned at
the earliest possible moment, and a
speedy trial for her unnatural crime
Is expected.
The woman has nothing to add to
the confession made In Rochester
last night. The police credit the wo-
man with basest of all motives In
killing her child. The desire to be
rid OF him in order that she might
marry again. This is the view
shared also by Charles s. Smith, the
woman's brother.
She continually talked of her little
boy being In her way, Smith said to-
day, and intimated that IL 1t were
not for the lad she WOULD get along
better In the world.
On the theory that Mrs. Melber
may have had an accompIice who
prompted her terrible act, the police
are looking for an intimate friend OF
the woman, who Is said to have left
The west
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Rochester, Jan. Mrs. Edith
Afslber, slayer OF her four-year-oid
boy, Is now enroute to Albany in the
custody OF Detective Reed, of that
city, where she VIII arrive late this
afternoon. Mrs. Melber collapsed
early today following her confession
and was taken to a hospital. By
noon, however, she had sufficiently
recovered to warrant her removal to
the scene OF the crime Mrs. Melber
was arrested as she claimed her
trunk at the New York Central sta
tion here.
In explanation ct her crime, the POI I
lice say, Mrs. Melber asserts that she
has been widow four years, during
which time she has had a struggle to
care for herself and her child and that
this battle for an existence drove her
to take the boys life.
Grandfather Wanted to Adopt Him.
The lads grandfather, however, had
begged her to let him adopt the child. |
She Is an unusually attractive young
woman and at the end Of her exam
ination was unnerved and weeping
hysterically.
When first taken to police headquar- |
ters Mrs Melber was questioned for
an hour. She said at first that her name
was Ada James and that she was stay
Ing at the Y. W. G. A. while she was
looking for work. When one OF the Of
ficials opened handbag she had been
carrying and produced q letter ad- /
dressed to Edith Melber and asked her
IL that was not her name she declared
it was not. She insisted that the bag
did not belong to her.
The young woman told many con- |
ficting stories as the investigation |
proceeded and finally broke down and /
confessed thai she was the mother of |
the boy found near Albany, and then
she admitted that she had poisoned
him.
a Man In the Case?
after visiting the Albany home for
children, she said, and being unable |
to place him there because none OF the
officials We're present she became dis
couraged. 1t was then, she said. that
she decided to dispose OF the child
Going to drug store she bought 10 /
cents worth Of carbolic acid. Then |
she boarded suburban car and went |
to Schenectady. After walking intoE
the country q distance she finally gave
the carboIie acid to the boy and fled.
The police learned that Mrs. Meiber
had OF, late been keeping company with |
an electrician employed IN Science
tady and that she intended to marry /
him, The police are now trying to find I
this electrician to learn IL he knows /
anything about the tragedy or the mo
tive for It, Among some of Mrs. Mel |
ber's acquaintances In Schenectady 1t |
Is said that she had told some OF her
friends that she intended to get mar
ried again and move to California.