Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-04-11
SAYS MISS
. ARNOLD IS
NOW DYING
Pittsburg's Prosecutor Insists
She Has Been at Home
Four Months.
NEVER RECOVERED
FROM HER ILLNESS
Despite Denials of Father of
Girl, He Claims to Have
Positive Proof.
NEVER RECOVERED
FROM HER ILLNESS

Pittsburg, April 11.-Dorothy Arnold
is not dead, according to declara-
tion by District Attorney jackson
here today. She is dying at her home
in New York, he asserted. He added
that he had positive information she
was a patient at Dr. c. c. Meredith's
maternity hospital here.
dorothy came to Pittsburg soon
after her disappearance from home in
1910 and entered the Meredith hos
pital as a patient,'' said Jackson.
"She never recovered from her illness
and is now dying in New York, whore
she has been for four months"
The district attorney, although posi-
tive in what he said, did not make
public the information on which he
based his statement. He did say,
however, that he knew from the con-
fession by DR.. Ltitz, Meredith s assist
ant, that many women, possibly q score,
entered the hospital and disappeared.
{" Evidence is coming in hourly"
said the district attorney, "by tele-
phone and by mail. This afternoon
I'll show you Mrs Myrtle Allison's
body. Unlike most of the others, it
was buried instead Of being burned.
Mrs. Allison died in Meredith's place
and was buried in the United ceine-
terry under the name Of Daisy Davis.'
Zone of the nurses also told me Of
another woman, whose name has not
hitherto been mentioned in connection
with the case who was operated on at
tho hoaVttol JfaI ~.
effects"
Examination Of the monster twin
furnaces in the hospital basement re-
vealed the fact that they were con-
nected like those in crematory and
50 arranged that the odor from tho
burning bodies would not be noticed.
Missing -Four Years.
Miss Arnold disappeared from the
home OF her father Francis Arnold,
about four years ago. The search for
her was countrywide. At first the
family welcomed the newspapers aid.
Then, few weeks after the disap-
pearance, they suddenly became re-
ticent, refusing to discuss the case
and expressing the opinion that the
girl was dead.
Jackson's assertion that for many
months she has been back with her
parents, the public meanwhile assum
ing that she was still missing, created
tremendous sensation. She never
recovered from her illness at the
Meredith hospital said Jackson, and
it was from its effects that he main
tanned she is dying now.
Her Jewels Missing.
A tan fur coat and a black hand
bag found by the police at the hos
pital, or the "house of mystery, as
it is beginning to be called were
identified by four persons today, ac-
cording to Jackson, as those of Miss
Myrtle Allison, the girl supposed to
have died in the hospital from the
effects of an illegal operation year
ago.
But her jewels were missing.
Chief Of Detectives Clark was in
vestigating today the death at the
hospital the day after Miss Allison
was taken there of Mrs. Davis, one
of the patients mentioned by DR.. II. Z.
Lutz, Meredith's s assistant, in his con-
fession. 0. J. Goetz, the undertaken
who buried the body, was questioned
by the district attorney and it was
thought likely the corpse would be
exhumed for examination.
DR.. Meredith Is hearing was set for
next Tuesday. He was charged with
performing an illegal operation on
Miss Allison and with the theft of her
belongings. Meredith and Nurse Lucy
Orr were out on bail.
Arnold Denies 1t.
New York, April ll.--Francis Arnold
today denied positively the assertion
by District Attorney Jackson Of Pitts
burg that Arnold's daughter Dorothy
is dying at his home Of an illness
with which she was patient in Dr.
O. c. Meredith's maternity hospital
in the Pittsburg suburb Of Bellevue
some time ago. Arnold reiterated his
belief that his daughter is dead.
Arnold was especially infurated at
Jackson's statement that Dorothy was
in his own home. "I say he's liar,'
he exclaimed passionately. "What ne
says today isn't what he said yester-
day and il he's wrong on one thing
he's probably wrong on more than
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