The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-11

son. according 10 the dmuaNh VI W.
III. f.. Lutz. was removed from l.utzs
Office to the hospital. Or. III. T..
Welch. OF Bellevue. has shown by his
records that on March Is he issued
u Miss Lucy Orr, head nurse al the
institution. n certificate of burial for
Mrs. Daisey Davis" The issuing
physician declared that he granted
the paper on Miss Orr's mere asser'
ton that Mrs. Davis died from lobar
pneumonia. after an eight days i'll
ness"
I.utz said that Mrs. Allison was suf-
fering from septic poisoning when
taken by Meredith. and that a few
days later when he asked Meredith
how she was. Meredith replied:
"Ob. she's gone"
q. j. Goetz, Pittsburgh undertake
er. had charge OF the burial oil Mrs.
Davis" and said that interment was
made in the United cemetery here.
Unless the identity of this woman IL
established to the satisfaction OF the
district attorney. the body may be ex-
humed. Hearings In the case viii be
set for Tuesday next.
Both Meredith and Miss Orr were
out on hail today, the former in $l0.-
900 on the charge OF performing an
Illegal operation upon Mrs. Allison.
and $4,000 additional on charge OF
larceny OF her belongings. Miss Orr
was charged with larceny also, in con-
nection with the Allison case. lmme-
diately upon being given her release.
the head nurse returned TO the house
Of mystery" and ordered county de-
oil Whan
they refused TO go, she turned TO car
ing for a pup. canary bird and Kit
ten, bestowing tenderness which
seemed to belle her masculine voice
and bearing, thin lips and singuiariy
Unconditional brown eyes.
One OF the buildings on the prem
ises is large chicken coop.
Where are your chickens" re-
porter inquired.
"Oh," laughed Miss Orr. we have
just killed them all of to get new
stock" =
She conducted some visitors
through some parts OF the house.
you won't learn anything here
she said. and you may be keeping
your nose out Of somebody's business
somewhere else"
The district attorney declared today
that many articles of clothing which
obviously belonged to no one In the
house had been found there, and by
their different styles, sizes and quality
Indicated that DR.. Lutzs declaration
that he believed q number OF women
had been made away with there.
Apparently greatly distressed at
reports from Pittsburgh declaring
that District Attorney Jackson there
made the positive statement that
Dorothy Arnold was at her home
here, mentally unbalanced, Arnold,
this afternoon. offered to prove that
the statement was untrue. He In
vited reporters to accompany him to
his home this afternoon.
Come and see for yourself" Ar.
mold said. "You may look over my
home and question the servants as
to whether my daughter has ever
been there since her disappearance"
He arranged to meet reporters at
his office and go TO his home at 3
O'Clock.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 11.-"Dor-
othy Arnold, the missing New York
heiress. came to Pittsburgh soon after
her disappearance in 1910, and became
q patientNat DR.. G. c. Meredith's pri-
vate maternity hospital at Bellevue,
known az the house Of mystery. Miss
Arnold never recovered from her Ill
ness. and IL now dying at her home
In New York, where she has been
for the last four months" &n
That was the positive declaration
today Of District Attorney r. Fl. Jack
son. who, with Chief o. Detectives r..
F.. Clark and force Of sleuths. n
with all vigor the case
against Meredith and his associates,
day afternoon on charges OF malprac-
tice and larceny. He would not say
upon what he based his assertion.
Dr. H. e. Lutx. chief Informant
against Meredith. said that many
q score-have been
traced to Meredith's institHtion and
there lost track Of. And the district
attorney intimated that the case Of
Meredith has now resolved itself into
the question Of how many?'
Evidence Is coming In every hour"
he said this afternoon. by tele-
phone, by letter and by conversation.
This afternoon l will show yod the
body Of Mrs. Myrtle Allison, Of WIKI
insburg. She died at Meredith's
place, and was buried in the United
under the name Of Daisy
Davis"
Examination of the monster twin
furnaces in the basement disclosed
that they were connected like those
OF a crematory. and had single draft
pipe. Jackson said that this was 90
that odors Of burning bodies
might be carried OF without leaving
any discriminating after-scent.
The statement OF the district at
torney regarding Dorothy Arnold was
received with surprise, az, at mid
night, he had declared that her case
had become merely incidental, while
he was solving the nearer problem OF
the death OF Mrs. Allison.