The Washington times., 1919-12-11

muroer OF three-year-old BILLY" Dam
sey, has challenged County Prosecutor
Gaskill to "show one shred of his
secret evidence pointing toward
guilt
Mrs. White, sobbing frequently as
she sat in an automobile in front Of
the county Jail at Mays Landing, tried
all yesterday afternoon to gain ad-
mittance to her husbands cell.
Mrs. White bitterly criticised inti-
nations by detectives that the body
OF the Dansey child might have been
hidden in the White home, near Ham
monton, and later taken to Folsom
swamp, where it was found a mere
skeleton, on November 81. with the
childs clothing nearby. She added
that IL the prosecutor has evidence
OF a concrete nature that she and
others of the family will be only too
glad to meet the issue squarely.
Prosecutor Edmund G. Gaskill and
! his first assistant. Herbert N. yoor-
hees. were at their homes, where they
were reported i'll all day. 1t is re-
ported that Mr.. Gaskill Is laid up
with pleurisy. Aside from saying that
no further arrests are contemplated
| for the present, Prosecutor Gaskill
| dismissed callers with: II am a very
SICK man. / have nothing at all to
say ABOUT the case"
Tells Of Police Dog.
Mrs. White, who had been under the
| care of a nurse since her return to
her home. near Hammonton from Wis
iting relatives in Philadelphia on
Monday, six hours after her husband
| and Mrs. Jones were arrested, re-
vealed the fact for the first time since
the disappearance Of little BILLY"
Dansey on October from the home
of his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Hercules
Dansey, adjoining the dahlia farm on
which the Whites reside, that a Ger
man police dog. a highly trained ami
NAL. had been put on the scent as
early as October 0 and had .'nosed"
/ through the White home for days
seeking the Dansey child.
She continued:
"A German police dog, trained by
Philadelphia man OF wide expert
ence in such matters, was given the
scent from 'Billy's' clothes. That
was the day after the disappear
ance. Our home was the first place
the dog hunted. In fact. our home
was thrown open voluntarily to the
authorities and to newspaper re-
porters.
Surely IL that boy had been hid
den in our house that dog would
have found the body, as every nook
was searched. Furthermore. detec-
tives time and again went throug h
our house and grounds as thoroughly
as they searched the grounds of tho
Danseys. They questioned us time
and again and we always told the
same story"
Sweater Important Clue.
The little brown sweater, one of
the garments worn by BILLY" Dansey
when he disappeared from home on
the afternoon of October s, picked up
by George Eckhardt one month and
thirteen days later in Folsom swamp,
while he and companion were gum
ming, promises to become one of the
most important clues in the posses
sion Of Prosecutor Gaskill in the So
luton of the mysterious death of the
child.
This sweater, the first article of
clothing noticed by Eckhardt, was
lying about twenty feet or more from
the skeleton, and with the other ar
ticles found nearby was turned over
to the prosecutor. 1t is known that
the clothing has been turned over to
experts. The presentation Of the en-
tire case will be made to the grand
jury when the prosecutor receives
the report from the experts, it was
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