Evening journal., 1914-04-11
BELIEVE OTHER
WOMEN Died in
MYSTERY HOUSE
Dorothy Arnold Probe Rests
While Pittsburgh Attorney
Searches for Mrs. Allison
find COAT and BAG
OF The missing WOMAN
BY The United Press.

by Ine Unlteu Press.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 1.-THE
mysterious disappearance Of Dorothy
Arnold in its possible connection with
Che house of mystery" DIR. C. Mere
diths private maternity hospital at
Bellevue, was cast temporarily into the
shadows today by District Attorney
K. II. Jackson The official faced the
nearer problem of connecting DR.. Mere
dith and his associates with the death
Of Mrs. Myrtle b. Allison of the neigh
boring city of Williamsburg, who dropped
from sight almost as mysteriously in
March, 1913, as did the New York
heiress in 1910.
Apparently things were coming the
way Of the district attorney. Search OF
the big drab house on the banks of the
Ohio brought to light fur pony coat
of tan shade and block dog, both OF
which were said to have belonged to
the missing woman. Early today the
district attorney said that four persons
one a salesman in a downtown store
had sworn that the pony coat belonged
to Mrs. Allison, and that their atlidavits
we're in his safe. Two others, he said
had identified her.
Valuable jewclry which was in her
possession, however. has not been found.
This was giving the authorities some
concern. as DR.. H. +. Lutz, chief in
formant against Meredith, set forth in
his affidavit that when he delivered
Mrs. Allison to Meredith he gave Mere
dith the woman's jewels.
Investigation was being made of the
death of a woman in the hospital on
March Is. the day after Mrs. Allison,
according TO the affidavit of DR.. II. y.
Imtz. was removed from Lutz's Office
TO the hospital. DR.. II. i. Welch, Of
Bellevue. has shown by his records that
ON March Is he issued TO Miss Lucy
Orr. head nurse at the institution, a
certificate of burial for Mrs. Daisy
Davis" The issuing physician declared
that he granted the paper ON Miss OTIS
more assertion that Mrs. Davis died
from lobar pneumonia after an eight
laws illness
i.utz said that Mrs. Allison was suf'
fcring from septic poisoning when taken
bv Meredith and that a few days later
when he asked Meredith how she was
Meredith replied:
"Oh. she's good
o. ]. Goetz, a Pittsburgh under.
taker. had charge of the burial ol
Mrs. Davis" and said that intermen'
was made in the United Cemetery
here. Unless the identity of this wo'
man is established 20 the satisfaction
of the district attorney, the body may
he exhumed. Hearings in the case
we're set for next Tuesday afternoon
Both Meredith and Miss Orr were
ont on bail, the former in $4,000 on
the charge of performing an illega
operation upon Mrs. Allison and Szi'
GOO additional on a charge OF lar
cenv of her belongings Miss or
was charged with larceny also, IN con
nection with the Allison case. I'm
mediately upon being given her re
lease. the head nurse returned 10 tn'
"house of mystery" and ORDERED
countv detectives and all others away
When they refused to go. she turned
to caring for a pup, canary bird an'
a kitten. bestowing a tenderness
which seem to belle her masculine
voice and bearing, thin hips and sin
euiarlv unconditional brown eyes.
one of the buildings on IN
nremises is a large chicken coop.
"Where are your chickensF
reporter inquired.
aOh." laughed Miss Orr. I'VE hav
inst killed them of to get new stock.
She conducted visitors through
some parts of the house.
you won't be learning here" sh
said. "and you may be keeping you
nose out of somebody's bushes
somewhere else"
The district attorney declared to
day that many articles of clothin
which obviously belonged to no on
in the house had been found there
and by their different styles, size
and quality indicated that DR.. Lutz'
declaration that he believed numbe
of women had entered the institutio
never TO be heard of again would b
borne out. He considered importan
the finding among Miss Orr's effect
OF a red wig. artificial complexio
set and bank deposit book shown
S41 to the credit of Miss Lucy Damn
a name said to have been assumed o
occasions by the woman.