The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-10
RAID BRINGS NEWS"
OF DOROTHY ARNOLD
Missing New York Girl Said to
Have Been in "Hospital"
Near Pittsburg.
FOUR PERSONS ARRESTED
Mr.. Arnold, the Father, Calls
Latest Report Absurd-Still
Thinks Her Dead.

Pirrserro. April e.-Evrdence secured
here to-day after raid on maternity
hospital" in Bellevue. fashions BILE
nearby suburb. has led to n suspicion that
Dorothy Arnold. the missing New Yorl;
girl who mysteriously disappeared over
three years ago. was among the young
women who visited that place and gre now
numbered among the missing.
District Attorney Jackson to-nirh,
said that the woman suspected OF being
Dorothy Arnold was traced to the office
OF a doctor In the Schmidt Building on
Fifth avenue and from there she dropped
out OF sight
A short time after this when quest oncd
by another physician the Schmidt Build
ing physician II said to have admitted
that the woman visited his office. but
would say nothing to explain what had
become OF her.
Raid on the "WospitaI.'
Headed by Chief Clark and Assistan,
District Attorney John y. Dunn a squad
of county detectives this afternoon raided
Nht ioSpitdi w btteNu's EouT pfTSoriS
were taken in the raid. They ere Or. c.
c. Meredith. DIR. II. T. Lutz. Miss Lucy
D. orr. nurse. and Mary Snyder. a SER
want
Dr. Meredith was Immediately COM
mited to Jail in default OF $4,000 ball on
charges Of performing a criminal opera
ton and committing larceny. DIR. Lutz
was taken In charge by District Attorney
and Miss Orr. the nurse. was
placed in Jail.
Admission to the hospital was obtained
through strategy. The detectives had ar
ranged with DR.. Meredith to care for a
young woman and through this ruse they
entered the hospital unobstructed.
District Attorney jackson says that he
has evidence Of five women who were
patients in the place. According to DIR.
Lutz. one OF these women. Mrs. Myrtle
Allison. aged about 40. disappeared In
March, 1918.
DIR. Lutz. In a statement made to the
District Attorney tonight. said that Mrs.
Allison came to his office March II. 1913.
and while there collapsed. He cared for
her and after a few days she grew rapidly
worse. On March II she made an ante
mortem statement.
Drops Out of sight.
According to Dr. Lutz the woman was
taken away that night At | o'clock ana
has not been seen alive since that time.
Witnesses whose identity the District
Attorney refuses to disclose are said T.,
-, Aa,
sons body cremated in the big furnace in
the hospital"
Several other young women reported
missing are said to have been seen enter
Ing the hospital"
Dr. Lutz told the District Attorney that
he had asked br. Meredith about Dorothy
Arnold and that the latter had told him
that the New York girl had visited his
Office. For a time ne refused to speak
further on the subject. Later in another
pr. Lutz said that DR.. Mere
dith admitted that after Miss Arnold had
visited his Office she had disappeared,
In the cellar of the hospital were
found two large furnaces.
d strict Attorney Jackson says that he
expects further developments that may
lead to more definite information regard
ing Miss Arnold's disappearance.
The despatch concerning the reported
visit of Dorothy Arnold TO Pittsburg was
repeated In brief TO Francis A. Arnold.
her father. last evening at his home, los
East Seventy-ninth street. Mr.. Arnold
insisted that the story was not true and
described 1t as absurd.
..The story Is ridiculous" said MIR.
Arnold. "and absolutely untrue. | told
YOU frankly when the report came from
Los Angeles about my daughter being
,b.ra that I had heard of that months be-