Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-16
Believed a Victim---PittSburg
Doctor Admits HeireSS
Visited Hospital.
RUSE TO GAIN ENTRANCE.
Three Others Arrested By De-
teCtiveS in Raid on InSti-
tuition In Suburb.

Pittsburg, Pa, April l5.-Evi- |
dence obtained here following the |
raid on maternity hospital in Belle
vue, a fashionable nearby suburb,
indicates that Dorothy Arnold, the
missing New York heiress who mys-
teriously disappeared over two
years ago, may have been among the
young women who visited that place
and are now numbered among the
missing.
District Attorney Jackson stated
that Dorothy Arnold was traced to
the office of DR.. c. c. Meredith in
the Schmidt building on Fifth ave-
nue., this city, and from there she
dropped out of sight. A short time
later, when questioned by another
physician, DR.. Meredith, with an air
u bravado, is said to have admitted
that Miss Arnold visited his office.
On being pressed for further infor-
nation about her, he is alleged to
have intimatedN that her body had
gone the way of several others
in the murder house." which was
raided.
Headed by Chief Clark and Assist
ant District Attorney John N. Dunn,
a squad of county detectives raided
the maternity home, which has been
conducted by DR.. Meredith for the
past two years. Four persons were
taken in the raid. They are DR.. C.
c. Meredith, DR.. H. E. Lutz, Miss
d. Orr, nurse in the home, and
Mary Snyder, domestic.
DR.. Meredith was committed to
Jail in default of $4,000 bail on Sc
rious charges. DR.. Lutz was taken
in charge by District Attorney Jack
son, and Miss Orr, the nurse, was
committed to Jail.
WORK RUSE TO ENTER.
Admission to the murder house"
was obtained through strategy. The
detectives had arranged with DR..
Meredith to perform an operation on
a young woman, and through this
ruse they entered the house unob-
structed.
District Attorney Jackson stated
that he has evidence of five women
who were operated on in Meredith's
maternity home. One of these wo-
men, Mrs, Myrtle Allison, aged forty
years, who conducted a boarding
house in Williamsburg, myteriously
disappeared in March. 1913.
DR.. Lutz, who was arrested with
DR.. Meredith, in a statement made to
the district attorney, said that the
Allison woman came to his Office
March IL, 1913, and while there col
lapsed. An examination revealed
the fact that an operation had been
performed on her. He cared for her
and after few days she grew rap
idly worse. On March IL, she made
an ante-mortem statement in which
she admitted that DR.. Meredith had
operated on her.
| According to Lutz, he then called
DIR. Meredith on the telephone and
the latter visited the woman that
night at II o'clock and after admit
ting that he had performed the oper-
alton, he obtained a wagon and re-
moved Mrs. Allison at o'clock in
the morning. She has never since
that time been seen either alive or
dead by any one.
BODY PUT IN FURNACE.
| Witnesses, whose indemnity the dis
trict attorney refuses to discuss, are
said TO have testified to having seen
Mrs. Allison's body placed in the big
furnace in the murder house"
while she was unconscious but still
breathing.
Several other young women, who
have been reported missing, are