New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Warrant Taken Out for
Whites Sister-in-Law Is
Held Up by Her Illness,
Says Her H IL b a n d
Father Weeps Over
Accused Man in Jail
"Not Acting for Fun, -
Prosecutors Replies to
Criticism of Theories
staff Correspondence

Staff Correspondence
MAYS LANDING, Dec. O.
The name of the third person for
whom warrant has been issued in
connection with the death of three
year-old Billy Dansey, who disap-
peared from his home in Hammon-
ton, N. j.. October 8, was revealed
today. Louis White, next-door
neighbor of the Dansey family, told
friends that John P. Wilson, chief
Ct Atlantic County detectives, had
brought warrant to his home with
the intention Of serving it on his
wife, Susan.
He said ne had persuaded the de-
tective not to serve the warrant be-
cause his wife was i'll and both of
their children suffering of typhoid
fever. The warrant charged her
with being an accessory after the
fact, he said.
Woman Tells of Seeing Boy
Louis White is a brother of
Charles S. White, who is in the
county jail here charged with the
murder Of Billy Dansey. The ac-
cused mans home is next door to
Louis and two doors from the Dan
sey home.
At the Coroner's inquest recently
Mrs. Susan White testified that she be-
eved she was the last person to see
Billy Dansey before he disappeared.
Charles, her brother in law, disputed
this. He said he believed he was the
last person. Susan and Charles, about
the time Billy's mother started to seek
for him. We're in different parts of the
big dahlia field cutting blooms for the
New York market
Chief Detective Wilson refused to-
night to discuss the warrant for Mrs.
Susan White with the same firmness
that has marked his steadfast refusal
to reveal What evidence prompted MIN
to arrest Charles White and Mrs. Edith
No Confession as Yet
Chief Wilson referred inquirers to
County Prosecutor Edmund c. Gaskill,
who said:
"rhe authorities of this county never
arrest any one in sckbed More l
cannot say. We haven't got any con-
LESSONS, but, just the same, we are
not ARE sting anybody for fun. Our
case is we'll founded. won't leopard
ize it by talking too soon"
Mr. Gaskill said he would present all
facts in his possession to the grand
Jury within a few days.
Neither MIR. Gaskii nor his detec-
tives Wilson and Benjamin Nusbaum
went to Hammonton to-day. All were
In Mays Landing.
During the afternoon Edward H.
White. the father of Charles, came
mere from Atlantic City TO try to per
suade the authorities to permit him to
talk to mis- son. He was accompanied
oy William Jones, a contractors esti-
mator, who lives in Phi adelphia. Re is
son of Mrs. Edith Jones, and wanted
10 see his mother.
After standing about the courthouse
yard for several hours in misting rain
Doth men received permission to hold
are locked in cells in widely separated
portions of the Jail.
Father Weeps in Jail
The elder White is thin to the point
Of emaciation. He wears a battered
black felt hat on his white head and
the lower half of his face is as shielded
by long mustache as though he wore
beard. His eyes were red from weep-
ing WHEN he left the jail late this ae
ternoon. From time to time he reached
down into an inside pocket of his worn
and faded overcoat and pulled out Il
paper sack Of chewing tobacco When
ne wasn't talking his Jaws we're nerv-
ously occupied in chewing the tobacco.
!, My son has been locked up on
theory and lot of rot" he said. DE
tective Wilson rode over on the train
with me from Atlantic City. | guess
ne was seeking information, but he
gave me a little bit
III tell you what he told me and
wwhat l repeated just now to my SON.
lou can take it for what it is worth
ne said they had evidence, had good
reason to believe, that Charlie had
started to chase the Dansey boy or
mayoe the Dansey fox terrier Jack, out
i...ur y, our dahlla field and had injured the
ssstie boy.
Parent Defends Prisoner
c,N seems ridiculous to say that
thes t1hnaries would pick up stone and
ntSsow 1t at baby when he himself is
a., sas ia1her of a baby-Charles White jr.
i ,Asas sas same age as Billy Dansey. But
H. what they say. / don't want to
~ 100 positive about the stone, al
uusn think Wilson said stone. Any
~s.RR ne said Charles had hit the boy
-. something and, finding the child
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