Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-03
WOMAN ADMITS SHE.
BURNED BABE; HELD
ON MURDER CHARGE
PERU ITALIAN SAYS SHE PLACED
BODY OF NEW BORN CHILD IN
STOve-ARREsTED BY POLICE
THEN ADMITS ALLEGATION.

Mrs. Adala Salvatore. mother of
three children and Il resident of
'Piety Hill" a district in the extreme
northeastern part OF Peru. is held in
cell at the Peru Jail in what police
OF that city term one OF the stranv-
est cases in the criminal annals OF
the county. Mrs. Salvatore is said
to nave confessed to Chief O. Police
Potthoff that she burned the BODY ot
an infant in a kitchen stove AT her
home.
The possibilities OF a murder charge
loom large against the woman ANA
States Attorney Wiley. il was an
nolnced today. went to Peru this
afternoon when Mrs. Salvadsre was 10
be arranged before Magistrate Dau.
Der Tor preliminary hearing.
Police Enter the Case.
The investigation by the police at
Peru was started thru a request from
states Attorney Wiley. Residents Of
the neishborhood where Mrs. Saliva.
dore resides. their suspicious aroused
placed their information before the
state prosecutor and last Saturday
Wiley in telephone conversation
with Chief Potthoit asked the author
itles to take up the Investigation.
II was but a matter OF an hour or
TWO after the states attorney vas
in communication with the police dc.
partment head before The chief was
the woman at her home
licr denials of the story were re.
peatcd and emphatic pottholf's oncs.
tlons we're put thru an interpreter
and elected nothing but dcnials. Mrs
Salvatore denied that she had been
III AT all and said thai the story anone
the noiehboIs was without fouuda.
ion.
Quixzed Second Time.
Not satisfied with the FIRST que
toning, CHIEF PouhoG returned to
he Woman's home the follow INK diy
sunday, and again subjected her IT,.
A quiz1ing by this time the chic
VAS Of the opinion thar the woman
was concealina the truth OF the st0re
ana ordered her to appear At q phys.
.cians office Monday for an cXamiu-
ition This was proposed 10 deter
nine definitely whether the woman
was tuthful in her statements and
she agreed to the plan.
Monday afternoon Mrs.. Salvatore
put III an appearance. hul before The
'Namihati0n was started made y uu-
Necessary by an explanation which
t true. dispelled the entire ease.
This Was the first break in the,
Somans denias ana when questioned
IS to her reason for not makn~ thc
EXPLANATION before, told the police
'hiel that she did not want TO make
he statement thru the Interpreters
Aho bad accompanied him to hey
lonso on the prcccdins dar
Taken to the Station.
It was when the woman left tho
physicians Office following her nd.
MISSIONS that she was taken inio Gus.
ody and taken to tho chicr+ Office
1t the station
Once more Mrs SaNadorc's story
Sas subjected to a series Of qucs
ions which it is said brought rlr.
her admissions sUenahhcning Dhe
Sob which was being drawn abou
LEI. It was during this examination
hat the woman Is said to have made
he first admission Of The childs hirth
md then launched into the sord1d
tory. That the little being was with.
'u' life Is the wOmans contention.
This occurred on December ~. nc.
'ording to her story, ind she con.
called it in bundle of RAGS in her
lome until last Saturday morning,
she told the police chief Then she
JIaeed the bundle in q kitchen sloNe.
According to the womans asser
ions she burned the RAGS and their
'transc contents on the morning Of
he day TINT Chiet potthofl first MP
cared AT her home.