New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-14

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tanned a good job. and would take niue
George with him. So. she said, she took
the child to the station the next day.
where, after fearful parting her cou-
sin took charge OF him. She then ro-
turned TO Schenectady, and on Thursday
left there for Rochester, where she IN
tended 70 earn some money. and then 80
e. Chicago TO find her boy and cousin.
Accused Of the Murder.
DO you know" said Acting Director
Mcguire, speaking slowly, that the dead
body of your little son has been found III
q vacant lot just over the city line OF
Albany? Do YOU know that he was
killed by being forced 20 drink carbolic
acid and that you are charged with the
murder"
MY Cod" screamed Mrs. Melber. My
God, / charged with my boys murder!
To Gods face declare my innocence.
sobbing hysterically. the woman was
removed al once to the matron's floor
where she was formally charged with
murder in the first degree. As the
charge was read to her she broke down
completely and admitted that she had
lied throughout She said that when
che failed TO get her little son in the in
stitution at Albany she took him to
drug store in Albany, where she bought
ten cents worth Of carbolic acid. They
walked out into the suburbs, and While
walking the child said he was thirsty
She said she gave him the bottle and he
drank the acid. She could not recall
what happened after that. she denied
that she forced the child to drink the
poison. She did not recall she SAID
leaving his little body in the tall weeds
of the lot. She was then locked NJ.
Albany. Jan. 19.-The body Of the Ave-
year-old boy found dead in swamp on
the Schenectady road last Tuesday and
believed to have been murdered by the
forcible administration Of carbohc acid
" as identified by relatives to-day as that
NJ George Melber. Of Schenectady. The
Identification was made by George Mel
Der. 2 Schenectady blacksmith, the boys
grandfather, and Charles 5. Smith, Of
schenectady. an uncle
George Melber's father, a well-to.do
mathinist, died in 1907 Mr.. Smith said
to-day that from the first there was fric-
ton between Mrs. oIelber and the hus-
bands family regarding the care Of the
child. and that in September, -909, not
understanding the desire Of the family TO
take charge Of the lad. his mother placed
him in the Schenectady Children's Home
Last week THURSDAY, Mrs. Melher |
,allsd for the boy at the home Of Mr..
Smith the uncle. and took him TO the |
house where she was working. They !
spent Thursday night there.
Mrs Melher left schenectady with |
George last week on Friday afternoon.
She told her husbands relatives that che |
Vss taking the boy 70 Albany, where he
would meet an uncle, who would take |
him West and look after him She re-
turned TO the place where she worked
at o'clock in the evening. and remained
there until last Wednesday.
on Wednesday night the story Of the
finding of the body appeared in the
newspapers. Early that day Mrs. Melber
told her employer that she had received
a telegram from Syracuse which made
necessary a hasty journey 10 that city.
For some reason her mistress was sus-
picious. and on calling up the local tele-
graph Offices, the police say. she learned
that no message addressed to Mrs. Mel
Der had been received. On Wednesday
morning Mrs. Melber drove off alone in
a cab and. it is learned, took the 1892
express for the West. checking her trunk !
TO Rochester.
Relatives told the police that they had |
suspected for some time that Mrs. Mel
Der intended to marry and move to Cali /
fornia Before the arrest in Rochester |
the authorities We're trying to get the |
description of man who bought ticket /
70 California at the Schenectady rail-
roaa office last Wednesday on the suppo-
sition that the woman might have joined .
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