Evening star. [volume], October 09, 1935, Page A-5, Image 5

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Mrs. Creighton Signs New
Confession—Is Held for
Grand Jury.
By tha Associated Press.
M1NEOLA, N. Y.. October 9.—Mrs.
John Creighton was arraigned and held
for the grand jury today on a murder
charge in the poison death of Mis.
Everett R. Applegate after District At
torney Martin W. Littleton. jr„ said
Bhe had made a second confession ab
solving the woman’s husband.
Littleton said she had confessed that
*he poisoned Mrs. Applegate gradually,
•without help from any one else, be
cause of a desire “to get even.”
This desire, Littleton quoted Mrs.
Creighton as saying, was prompted by
rumors Mrs. Applegate was spreading
concerning Mrs. Creighton’s connec
tion with two poison deaths in New
ark. N. J-, in 1923. At that time Mrs.
Creighton was tried ana acquitted on
charges of poisoning her brother,
Charles R. Avery, and her mother-in
law.
Former Killing Hem Admitted.
The district attorney reiterated to
day that Mrs. Creighton had con
fessed fhe gave her brother poison "to
end his suffering" because he Was a
cripple. She has denied, however,
Littleton said, that she administered
poison to her mother-in-law.
Applegate, whom she had implicated
In a previous statement, has been in
Jail on a charge of criminally attack
ing Mrs. Creighton’s 15-year-old
daughter Ruth. He will await grand
Jury action in the assault case, which
police said was disclosed during the
tnurder investigation.
Mrs. Applegate, 36, died on Septem
ber 27 in a bungalow shared by the
Applegates and the Creightons.
Story Summarized.
Littleton summarized the story he
said Mrs. Creighton had told in her
confession as follows:
“She drove to a. cut-rate drug store
at Baldwin September 11 or 12 and
bought a box of rat poison at 23 cents.
She began a series of administrations
Immediately, giving the poison to
Mrs. Applegate first in coffee, then in
Various foods.”
He said Mrs. Creighton admitted
she continued the doses until Septem
ber 21, when Mrs. Applegate was taken
to a hospital, and resumed them when
the returned September 25.
He had not discovered how much
poison or how many doses had been
administered, Littleton said.
“I gave her a terrific dose,” he
quoted Mrs. Creighton, "the night
after she returned from the hospital.
I put it In an eggnog Mr. Applegate
and I made. He gave it to her with
out knowing what was in' it.”
Geneva
(Continued From First Page.)
telegrams from the secretary general
to all governments will be started.
Radio Bulletins Planned,
f Long-wave radio bulletins will be
broadcast nightly beginning at 10
ofclock, and short-wave broadcasts
Will begin at midnight. The special
bulletins will be handled in special
broadcast.
The International Red Cross office
also hummed with activity, resem
bling a general staff headquarters for
world humanitarian efforts.
Sidney H. Brown, secretary of the
International Red Cross Committee
here, trying to charter a plane to
carry members of a Red Cross mission
awiftly to Addis Ababa, paused to ad
dress a special appeal to the United
States Red Cross.
“The American Red Cross has al
ways responded generously to the ap
peal of humanity no matter from
what country such an appeal might
come,” he said.
Relief Needed Urgently.
"We are counting heavily in this
emergency on the support of our
chapters throughout the United States
which form the largest individual Red
Cross organization in the world."
- Brown said relief was needed
Urgently in the Ethiopian war zone,
especially from surgeons.
7 The Swedish Red Cross took the
Creighton Girl in Court
Ruth Creighton, 15-year-old daughter of Mrs. John Creighton, shown
in Mineola, N. Y„ court yesterday. Her mother is said to have admitted
she aided Everett Applegate in poisoning Applegate’s wife and to poisoning
her brother 12 years ago. Applegate is accused of criminal attack on the
Creighton girl. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
lead in offering ambulances. Others
were expected by the international
headquarters from the United States.
Belgium, Great Britain, Norway and
the Netherlands.
The Red Cross planned also to or
ganize hospital commissions in each
country to go directly to Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian Red Cross was said
to have estimated the cost of main
taining emergency hospitals at $50,000.
The International Red Cross will
appeal to its national units to assist
in raising this fund.
Many delegates to the Assembly
pledged themselves privately to ratify
at their historic session the Council's
Indictment of Italy's campaign against
Ethiopia, leading to inevitable appli
cation of sanctions.
Eden and Viscount Cranborne of the
British delegation had divided their
forces to line up the delegates.
Eden conferred with the Austrians,
Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, Sal
vador de Madariaga of Spain and For
eign Minister Maximos of Greece.
Cranborne saw the Hungarian repre
sentative to impress on him the im
portance of League solidarity in sanc
tions.
Even before the session the League’s
staff for applying "economic pressure”
against Italy was already in Informal
action, although it had not yet been
officially constituted.
League sources disclosed that it
would include all members of the
Council except Italy and that the
technical experts to help it in its com
plicated task already were arriving.
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ATTORNEY1 IS SILENT
SOMERVILLE, N. J., October 9 OP).
—Defense Attorney Frederick Pope of
counsel for Bruno Richard Haupt
mann declined to comment today on
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and Appeals upholding Hauptmann's
conviction.
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