The Washington times., 1929-06-20
DENIES He!
POISONED
YOUTH
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probably win be released in 1000
bail by the prosecutor.
Arrested at the Pennsylvania sta
ton in Baltimore when he arrived
In the city on q passenger train.
Aberts was brought to the county
seat of Hartford county and locked
B up in a cell away from Mrs. Stone.
He was taken In to see Hopkins
by Sheriff Dewey Bowman, who
brought him here, and. then taken
to the county jail across the street.
May Arrange Bond
"There is nothing for me to do
but lock him up" Hopkins said. IT
am going to question him at length
and then he probably will be re.
leased on bail"
Aberts reached town with Sheriff
Bowman and, with an air of resig.
nation, submitted to photographers.
Later, when Sheriff Bowman and
Hopkins consulted for few mo-
n1ents, Aberts told his side Of the
story.
1T haven't been reading the news
{ papers and I didn't know they
were looking for me-" Aberts said.
''I don't have anything to keep
back simply because I don't know
anything about George being
poisoned.
In Bad Light
"Mrs. Bakers CMrs. May Baker,
ssister-in-law OF Mrs. Stone) testi-
mony to the effect that was going
to run away with Mrs. Stone after
the boy died puts me in q bad
light. But the woman never men,
s toned anything about 1t to me.
All this publicity about this case
Is going to cause me to lose my
job; that's what hate about it
2 more than anything else.
9 ST am living with my wife and
children in Oxford, Pa, again and I
can't afford to lose any time with
the railroad. want to stay with
them"
Z, Apparently affected by the men.
ton OF his family, Alberts asserted
he was through with Mrs. Stone
I forever. Earlier in the day, the
to Lieuts. Joseph H. Itzel and
James Fl. Comer, of the Baltimore
5detective bureau, that he had been
intimate with. Mrs. Stone.
He was placed in cell at police
theadauarters, Baltimore, O. short
$ time before he was questioned. He
: admitted then he had gone to board
with Mrs. Stone following an argu'
ment with his wife and had boarded
there until two weeks before
Georges death. A day or so after
George died he went back to the
$ Stone house to live, he said.
& "I have been damn fool, Aberts
declared. II lived In the house with
j Hattie for several months and
: always was fond Of the boy. But I
{ had no intimation he was going to
( be poisoned. I know nothing about
: Il and never had any intimation
Of it,
Made Trip
Hopkins said that Aberts had
told him Of an automobile trip to
sAtlantic City, on which he accom-
panied Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Baker and
,sa man whose name was not given.
He said they stayed there only one
hour or so and then drove back to
Havre de Grace.
u Mrs. Stone, informed Of Abert's
& arrest, asserted he could tell moth
Ing more than Taylor Wright, an.
other former boarder, had told au.
thorities. Wright has been ques-
toned by the police, but has been
unable to tell anything Of impor-
lance in I, connection with Mrs.
stones feeling for the boy, 1t was
said.
The investigation into Mrs. Stones
alleged poisoning Of her youngest
son had met an impasse before the
arrest Of Aberts.
Hopkins asserted in statement
that Robert Pennington, son of
Mayor George Pennington, Of Havre
de Grace, had been approached by
Mrs. Stone two months prior to
! Georges death and asked whether
1T would be possible to make charges
I for clothing against the boys
inheritance of $1,000 from his
father. Pennington, according to
Hopkins, replied it would be i'm
possible and that the money would
have to remain in trust for the
boy until he was 81 years old.
Exhume Body
Hopkins said he would decide in
ward Stone, husband Of Mrs. stone,
would be exhumed. stone died in
January, 1928, while on a train
nearing Edgewood.
Stone, a chief in the Havre de
Grace fire department, is said to
= have thrown away a lunch pre-
pared for him by his wife because
sandwiches contained a smoking
substance" which fellow employees
declared to be "rat poison" He
died in convulsions. A certificate
of heart disease was given by an
attending physician.