New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
Dictograph Used as Rela.
tives and Friends See
Suspected Pair for First
Time Since Arrest
White Has Alibi,
His Lawyer Says
Wife Asserts Innocence of
Accused as Willful Muir.
der Charge>1s Revealed
Stat Correspondeuc,

Stat Correspondence
MAYS LANDING. N. j., Dec. 12.-
Seven relatives and friends of Charles
White were permitted one at a time to
be alone with him this afternoon in a
room in the county jail here Appar-
entity not even a turnkey attended
1hese visits, but in a nearby room,
eavesdropping by the aid of a dicto-
graph, were representatives. of County
Prosecutor Edmund c. Gaskill.
When White, who is charged with
numbering little Billy Dansey, had
talked with his wife and the six others
he was returned to his cell Then Mrs.
Edith Jones, the aged housekeeper of
the White family. who is charged with
being an accessory after the fact, was
taken into the room, and one by one
the same people were taken to see her.
The room in which White and Mrs,
Jones were allowed to receive their
kinfolk is in wing of the Jail sepa-
rate from the portion in which are
tneir cells.
Listening Device Installed
An attache of the jail admitted to-
day that dictograph had been deliv-
cred to Sheriff Perkins Tuesday, the
day after White and Mrs. Jones were
locked up. Whites father was per-
mltted to have a brief conversation
with his son that day and Mrs. Jones's
son, William, was allowed to talk with
her. Since then, however, neither has
been permitted to see any one from the
outside; they have had no newspapers
and told their relatives to-day that
neither Prosecutor Gaskill nor his de-
tectlves had been to see them
Mrs. Blanche White, who was denied
admission after coming eighteen miles
from Hammonton to the Jail yesterday
and on Wednesday, presumably because
the listening device was not properly
Installed, was the first to see her hus-
band to-day. turnkey led her to the
door of the witness room, and then her
husband was brought in. That was
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. She
remained an hour and a half When
she was brought down to the jail Of
fee Mrs. Charles Wilson, Whites sis
ter, was taken in. When she left Mrs
Driebach, of Camden, sister of Mrs
Jones, was taken to see him.
Mrs. Robert Henry, daughter of Mrs
Jones, was the next to be taken up
and then E. A. Burdick, chief of police
in Hammonton and friend of White
was admitted. By that time Edward
White, the father, had returned from
Philadelphia, where he has a paint
store, and was allowed to see his son
Trick Used Prolongs Visiting
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and he only remained inside the jail
o'clock. The turnkey, who is the un-
dersheritf, then started the round OF
visits to Mrs. Jones, and it was well
on toward 9 o'clock before the last
of them had seen both Mrs. Jones
and White. Had they been allowed
to 60 up together all of the visits
might have been finished inside of one
or two hours, and there are a dozen
witness rooms equally comfortable
from which to have selected room,
for Mrs. Jones to receive her rela-
tlves while White talked with his had
the prosecutors only purpose been to
keep the prisoners apart
When Mrs. Blanche White left the
Jail she said to newspaper men:
"My husband said he had no com.
plant to make. He was getting plenty
of food. He asked me not to talk
about the charge against him and tolc
me not to worry, because he said every.
thing would be all right soon. We both
wept a little when we remembered that
this is the seventh anniversary of oul
honeymoon and he has spent the time
IN q jail"
When Chief Burdick came out he
said:
well, I hope the county detectives
had pleasant afternoon with theil
dictograph. They must have learned
about this business in correspondence
school course. None of US had a thine
TO conceal and we talked freely.
don't know whether it occurred to the
others, but knew, of course, that these
elaborate preparations meant only one
thing-dlctograph!"
Mr.. White Anxious to Face jury
When old Mr.. White finished talkinf
with his son he said he had found hin
cheerful and anxious to get his cas-,
before jury.
"He told me-" said Mr. White, "tha
he was quite willing to stay in jai
until he had been acquitted. He sale
he didn't want to have to go around ex
planning to people that he was innocent
He also said he hadn't the slightes
idea why the detectives or the Prosecu
tor suspected him. told him that we
were doing everything to protect hi.
rights"
Attorney G. Arthur Bolte made pub
lie to-day d copy Of the commitmen
signed by Magistrate George E. Strous
Of Hammonton, on which White wa
locked up.
This said that John P. Wilson, tn,
chief Of the county detectives, charged
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