Evening journal., 1914-04-10
DOROTHY ARNOLD
TRAIL LEADS TO
MATERNITY HOME
PittSburg Officials Fear That
Girl Was Cremated in
Hospital Furnace
Hold DOCTORS AND nurses
after RAID ON "BUTCHERY"
By The United Press.

BY The United Press.
PITTSBURGH. Pa. April l0.-With
further arrests in prospect startling
disclosures were expected today i'm
the case of DR.. c. c. Meredith and
his associates, arrested In a raid on
that physiciau's private maternity
hospital. at Bellevue, long known
hereabouts as the House of Mys-
terry" In the big isolated instiu-
tion on a high bluff overlooking the
murlSy Ohio, many women met
fruesome fate. according to a confes-
sion ascribcd TO Dir. II. Z. Lutz, one
OF those under arrest, and fully
credited by District Attorney r. H..
Jackson
The victims probably numbered a
score There may have been more.
according to Dr. Lutz. and among
them, he said. was Dorothy Arnold,
New York heiress. who disappeared
mysteriously IN 1910
Although today was legal holiday
IN the state. both the district attor-
Hey and Chief of Detectives r. y.
Clark were early at work upon the
the disappearance of the perfume im-
p0rtor's daughter would be fully and
finally explained. together with the
dropping from sight of other women.
According to the alleged Lutz con
fession several Pittsburgh physi-
clans acted as feeders" for the hos
pital, sending to Meredith for alleged
Illegal operations. women who came
IA fl4f.t In 80
complications resulted and we're fol-
lowed by death the remains of the
victims We're heartlessly consigned to
a monster furnace in the basement.
. according TO Lutz.
Meredith was held today iu $4,000
bail on charges Of performing an illegal
4 operation and larceny. Miss Lucy orr.
alias Lucy Adams head nurse, and his
alleged chief assistant. and Miss Mary
Snyder. % nurse. were also IN custody.
The specific charge against Meredith Is
that De performed an Illegal operation
upon Mrs. Myrtle Allison. of Wilkins
burg, near here. a year ago. Llltz de-
clared that De sent Mrs. Allison 10
Meredith
Iutz, declaring that Ne was almost
wreck as the result of his part i'm
the support of the hospital, described
Meredith as q fiend apparently obsessed
4 10y love of brutality
some time after sending Mrs. Ali
son TO Dr. Meredith. Lutz asked Mere
dith where she WAS, Dc sahl Meredith,
he declared. said she was dead
~Well. doctor. don't YOU think this Is
dangerous work =" Lutz claims TO have
asked Meredith I.utz says he was
told:
''rhere was certain party that came
70 me from New Nor, and was traced
as iar as my Office II was Dorothy
Arnols'
When asked HAT had become of her.
Meredith was said TO have motioned
skvward with both hands. indicating,
Lntz declared. that She had beeu ere
mated. Pressed for an answer as to the
fate of Mrs. Allison. Meredith made
similar gestures. Lutz said he had
witnessed cruel treatment of Mrs. Al
lison by Meredith when the woman was
removed from Lutz's office by Mere
dith's ambulance.
He literally threw her into the am
bnlance and called her a vile name
I.utz said. and when she moaned that
she would like her mother sent for
Meredith assured her with a brutal
laugh:
"Oh you'll see your mother soor
enough. all right"
District Attorney jackson smiled a
reports from New York to the effec
- that John Keith. attorney for Fran
els Arnold father Of Dorothy Ar
\ mold. had come to Pittsburgh un
known to his employer and inyest
gated q report that the MISSING
heiress was at the Bellevue institu
N tlon.
"Lutz has come through and toll
8 us everything" said Jackson today
1--WE have evidence that Dorothy Ar
mold was traced right to the door o
Merediths down town office In tn
Schmidt Building We have learneI
enough already to convince us that II
this raid we have broken up one O
the worst places In the country. I
IS too early yet to tell just what vii
be revealed about Dorothy Arnold
fate by the arrests"
Mr.. ARNOLD DENIES STORY
BY The United Press.
NEW YORK, April 10. Francis 4
Arnold, father OF Dorothy Arnold NhC
Pittsburgh dispatches said, was reporte
10 have perishcd in the hospital of Dl
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