Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2011, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== NEWSPAPER: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York City Saturday, May 16, 1922 =========================================================================== LETCHWORTH HOME, PROMISES TO HELP FIND LILLIAN WHITE ____________________ Missing Girl's Kin Withdraw Habeas Corpus - To Sue Coro- ner for Body. Brought to the Supreme Court here before Justice Leander B. Faber, Dr. Charles S. Little, head of the Letch- worth Village Home for Girls at Thiells, N.Y., declared that his in- stitution has not the body, living or dead, of Lillian White, who disap- peared from there last September and whose fate is believed to have been revealed by the finding of the skeleton on Cheesecock Mountain, in Rockland County, some weeks ago. Dr. Anna W. Hochfelder, attorney for Mrs. Catherine Copertino of 1408 Bergen st., sister of Lillian White, told Justice Faber today that the authori- ties of Letchworth Village had agreed to co-operate and that in consequence she wished to withdraw the writ as against that institution and Bedford Reformatory, to which Lillian was first committed in 1917. She announced that some time dur- ing the day she will sue out a writ of habeas corpus against William Stahlman, the Coroner of Rockland County, requiring him to produce in the Supreme Court at New City the body believed to be that of Lillian White. "We have proof we believe is indis- putable that the woman who was mur- dered in the mountain fastness of Rockland County was Lillian White." she said. Deputy Attorney General William J. Smith as the legal repre- sentative of Dr. Little said: "There is no desire on anybody's part to obstruct any investigation and we stand ready to co-operate with Lillian White's family and Dr. Hoch- felder in their quest to determine ab- solutely, if that be possible, that the skeleton found on the mountain is that of the missing inmate of Letch- worth" John White, a brother of Lillian, told Mr. Smith: "I am positive that the body is that of my sister Lillian. I am convinced, partially by the shape of the back of her head and by other features not only of the body itself but as they were restored or ac- centuated by Capt. Grant Williams. We want to do for her in death, al- though unfortunately, we were un- able to do much for her in life. We did what we could, of course, and now we ask the privilege of bringing her to rest in our plot." After the habeas corpus was withdrawn Dr. Little, Captain Williams, Mrs. Mary Hamilton, the policewoman; Deputy Attorney General Smith and Dr. Hochfelder, also an attorney, went to the Tombs Prison on a clue that John Crawford, the former at- tendant at Letchworth Home and sup- posed sweetheart of Lillian White might be there under an assumed name. Warden Hanley of the Tombs put the suspect in a line with nine other men similarly built, and Dr. Little looked over the ten men carefully. "Crawford in not among them." he said. "I am sure of it." The party then left the Tombs and Mrs. Hamilton began forthwith to re- gain the trail of Crawford. ===========================================================================