The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-10
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bulance and called her vile name,
Lutz said. and when she moaned that
she would like her mother sent for,
Meredith assured her with brutal
laugh:
"Oh you'll see your mother soon
enough, all right
District Attorney Jackson snrEed at
the report from New York to the er-
feet that John kisth attorney for
Francis Arnold, father Of Dorothy
Arnold had come to Pittsburgh un-
known to his employer and investi-
gated the report that the missing
heiress was at the Bellevue institu-
tion. "Lutz has come through and
told us everything" said Jackson
I'VE have evidence that Dorothy Arm
old was traced right to the door of
Meredith's downtown Office in the,
Schmidt building. We have learned
enough already to convince us that in
this raid we have broken up one Of
the worst places in the country. It
is too early yet to tell just what
would be revealed about Dorothy
Arnold's fate by the arrests.
Strange things we're found by de.
tectives searching the house of mys-
terry" today. Among the belongings
of Miss Orr. head nurse, was found a
red wig and complete set of face
colorings. In the closet was found a
complete set Of instrum antsa They
were covered with pile OF old
clothes. A secret path over which
patients were said to have been taken
to the house was discovered. Ashes
in the basement and the earth in a
stone walled pit will BE- examined
for tracer Of bone dust and quick
lime
Did Not Find Dorothy.
NEW YORK, April 10.-Full details
of search Of Pitsburgh's house Of
mystery the Bellevue sanitariupa, /,
whose proprietor DR. g, g. e. Meredith.
il under arrest there az possibly re-
sponsibIe for the deaths OF women,
were given to the United Press here
today by John Keith. who personally
went through the mysterious sani--
tarium on a search for Dorothy Arnold.
the missing New York heiress.
Keith, despite reports to the con-
trary from Pittsburgh. is still firmly
convinced that Miss Arnold was not in
the "house OF mystery" at least at the
time Of his visit
He declared that before his pres
ence in the vicinity was known, he
had posted two detectives. one on
each side of the lonely house on the
bluff above the Ohio, and he believes
that the girl he sought could not have
been spirited away without their
knowledge. -
From admissions made to him by the
doctor in charge, Attorney Keith sa1a
he had no doubt there was much about
the house which the physician desired
to conceal.
Il was first led to Pittsburgh,
Keith said. "by letter from proml-
nent lawyer Of that city. Writing to
me as the attorney for the Arnold fam
ilv while the search for Miss Arnold
was still fresh. he declared woman
there, was CerLAlh Lude Wise Anoo
was there in sanitarium near the city
Arriving in Pittsburgh ] went to the
office of my correspondent.
Where is the woman who. knows
where Miss Arnold is - asked. Can
you bring her here?'
mo" was the reply. ."she cannot
come here. She is a nurse in the
Bellevue sanitarium-where Miss Ar
mold is-and you will have to go out
to see her.
"Then I was given directions as to
how to reach the place, got two detec-
tives from a local agency and started
out by trolley. When we arrived at
the designated street, we got OF the
car and went up winding road, al
most impossible to vehicles, until We
got behind the lonely big house on the
hill. Seeing that could not approach
by the inmates and not de-