The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1906, Page 3

. JOSEPH HEALY SINGULARLY FREED FR YOUTH TELLS RIS STORY TO POLICE Meets Her in This City and After She| Has Committed Crime and Spends Much Time With Her. SAYS SHE ANNOUNCED T0 HIM THAT “POOR MAC WAS DEAD” Murderess Is Not Perturbed Whatever When Attention Is Called to Tragedy Headlines. TALKS WITH HER OF RING AND THEIR SHATTERED ROMANCE _—— embled with excitement. “Whom do ove the better,” was her final plea, S other or me?” “I love better the pure woman who has raised and fed me,” he answered. MYSTERY OF A LETTER. The letter which possibly may have saved e young man from a fate as fearful as ago he had with him yesterday. With all grammar, ngenuous spelling ne as follows: and it family, Joe and myself an as fends ower «¢ver since he eighteen montas ago i while_ di same Mrs. four times and vorced from two Williems is not She is to in this town who years and n from han we can compre- ast from her own fami v of her cu: has won him she has money she is souly dependent s aiways been to opposed to e such a buse fighter is sur- us all is & falr warning due time hope all will profit by it. Respectfully, A Committee of Friends. ports to be, a warning from friends. there are other facts about it. First, ritten, and at that time Emma x wrote much of her correspond- n & typewriter. Secondly, the night he letter was received, Emma Le Doux said, to her young lover, “I.feel as it something queer was going to happen. 1 feel that our marrlage will not take place.” THINKS INAMORATA WROTE IT. And now Healy is persuaded that it was she who wrote the anonymous missive. He does not know why she should have done so0, for he is not of those that read souls. But in all probability, when mma Le Doux wrote the letter that told the truth about herself, she did it on the pulse that had prompted her be- refuse the troth-ring offered her. trap was on the point of . a sudden access of pity indness of her victim shatter it to pieces. afterward can be under- under this same hypothesis— ath the depravity that was her there glowed a luminous fiver of g better and in a degree redeem- , a feeling almost worthy of belng called love, for the boy who had believed in her. Time and time again she tried to see him. And he, though he thought that e had driven her from his mind, decefv- perhaps ing himself also made efforts to see her. The ha exc se of both was the ring which early bound them. She had kept r the parting. He demanded the of it often and made appointments with her to get it. She, on her side, ob- talned appointments by promising to give to him, and husbanded this resource by him. OFFERED PRETEXT. 21 of last year he went up to >reek, where she was staying with | her mother, to demand the ring. He had o |an interview with her and went away fascinated | ,goin—without the ring. . He wrote to her afier this, always for the ring, and she answered, begging him to let her keep it. | In July she married Le Doux, her pres- | ent husband. The correspondence ceased. Then later Healy heard that she was liv- ing with McVicar, the man whose body was found in the trunk Saturday. he voung plumber thought she was She refuscd the mo o omever, | d€finitely out ‘of his life when, two g ¥ Sdenly shat. | Weeks ago to-day, while he was at din- e Hes e enly shat-|ner 4t home with his parents and - GRRE BuneTres s MOUS | hrothers and sister, she ra e truth abo r 2OD's De- ng him up on the telephone. She told him that she was in the city, and that she wanted to see him to give him the ring. Seized with the old weakness, he agreed to meet her that same evening at the corner of Stockton and Geary streets. She falled the appointment. The follow- ing morning she again called him up on the telephone to excuse herself for hav- ing missed it. Her excuse was that McVicar was ill, and #s terms seem sardonic to incredibiljity in the light of what has since happened. “Poor Mac,” she sald In compassionate voice, “he has not long to live.” >0or Mac” In truth had mot long to live. Within two weeks he was to be | found lifeless in a trunk, and the pity- ing telephoner was to be in prison ac- cused of his murder. ‘What §s the matter asked Healy. “Oh, he is dving as all miners die,” was the sad response. “He has miner's consumption.” OTHER CRIMES LIKELY. And now Healy remembers that Em- ma Williams, as he knew her, always had ascribed the death of her first hus- band, William Willlams, to “miner's consumption.” In a few days perhaps t first-young Healy refused to e, but when finally the proof stared t in the face there was a the lovers. He told | i as he told of it he twee Why Do You Hesilale o Buy a Piano? e umpon a time there were reasons why people paused before purchasing Pianos. But mow there is none—we have made it easy for almost every home to possess a Plano. DO YOU REA with him?” | Z YOU CAN BUY AN EXCELLENT it will be discovered what is that PIANO FOR THE SMALL “miner's consumption” which takes off SUM OF 86 PER MONTH? the men who love Emma Le Doux. “Le Doux,” by the way, is a French name, which means “the sweet one.” Last Saturday night, the day that the trunk with its nameless contents had been found in Stockton, Healy recelved a telegram from Emma Le Doux. It is by tracing this telegram that the de- tectives discovered the young féllow. The missive read: “Leave on the 2:15 train. the Royal House.” Healy went to the Royal House, 126 EI- 126 Geary Street. lis street. Emma Le Doux had not yet Got the “WISE HABIT” Yet? A arrived. He went out and stopped at the S | cic:: sioro of Charléy Foar on Fifth When you can have a Piano on such wonderfully easy terme, and #t_n remurkably low price. con- sidering the exceptional 1 why should you hesitate CLARK WISE & CO. EVERETT DEALERS, Meet me at which came to McVicar a few days | no avale. She bas already | | would like to | he has good chances | hy he is s0 determined | the slums of | first sight this letter seems what it | iling in her promise every time she saw | ARCH 27, 1906. —— I i | | | YEAR HER-~ o | + street, near Market. While e was put- ting & nickel in the machine on the coun- ter Emma Le Doux came up from behind and tapped him on the shoulder. He asked her what she wanted. She said, T want to give you your ring. 1 want to be on the square with you.” They went into a nearby restaurant and there she begged him to let her keep the ring and to take instead its money value. He refused, and they went back to the Royal House. She excused herself from giving him the ring by pleading that her things were all packed. She told He: that McVicar was dead (almost at that very moment the po- lice in Stockton were opening the trunk {to make their gruesome discovery) and | again her words were full of an awful frony. ' she sald; “well, he died an ga BETRAYS HER MOTIVE. She acoded that a brother of McVicar had shipped the body to his home in Den- changed from my name to his mother’s,” ]she said, “but his brother promised me that I'd get $1000 and his mother $4000.”" Healy left at 9:30. He went again to the Royal House the next morning (Sun- day), at 10 o'clock. Emma Le Doux was not ready. He sat down in the parlor and waited. To pass the time he picked up a paper. He wak reading it when she came In. “Look at this! Ism't it horrible?” said to her, pointing to the paper. looked at the page at which he p “Isn't it awrul?’ she said, calmly article that he was showing her was an account from Stockton of the finding of the trunk with its yet unidentified body. Then they went out on the cars to the Presidlo. There ‘they had cracked crab at a little restaurant, and, as seemed (o be her rule when with him, she drank nothing stronger than soda water. They returned to the Royal House at half-past 1, and there in the parlor had one last talk about the ring. She begged him to see her off on her boat, and finally he agrecd to do so if she returned the ring. She ran upstairs and came back with the ring. *Joe,” she said, “that ends it all. You've always been 4 gentleman to me—not like the other men I have known. Now, will you do one last thing for me, he She nted. and I'll never bother you any more. See me across the bay to my train.” SAY LAST FAREWELL, Healy went with her and carried her grip. They took the 3 o'clock Santa Fe boat, and she bought a ticket to Stock- ton, refusing to have her grip checked. Healy put her on the train. “Good-by, Joe,” she said; “‘you have the ring at last, and it is all over.” It was all over with a completeness of meaning that she did not intend. She left | the train at Antioch and the next morn- ling the iron door of retributive justice had clanged upon her, to open perhaps never again. Healy's story clears up man$ points {not known before. First, as to the movements of the Le Doux woman. Two weeks ago today she was in San Francisco. She telephoned to Healy, “Poor Mac, he has not long to live.” This shows that at that time she had already her mind made up to -the murder. After the murder she came directly to San Francisco. She arrived Saturday night. She left Sunday afternoon at 3 Although buying a ticket to Stockton, she refused to have her grip checked there, showing that she intended to get off at gome other point. These clews enabled the detectives to trace her to Antioch, where she had left the train. During her stay in San Francisco, al- though she knew that her plans had mis- carried by her fallure to Have the truank checked, and that she was in deadly peril of discovery, she was extraordinarily calm. . ver, Colo., and that the dead man had | left her his trunk, valise, gold watch and chaln. “He had his insurance policy X . i | | | | | | MBETS YRs 1z Dol PIPTH AND MARK | | 4 . | MAN WITH WHOM THE | TON MURDE SE DAY IN THIS CITY. | | = MRS, LE D00y S CAPTURED I ATy Coutinued from" Page 1, Column 5. will go' with you," said Mrs. Le Doux | quietly. The constable at once took her | into custody. The woman admitted knowing all about ! the murder, but told the constable that | Joseph Miller, who she said was a | “sandy complexioned man with a smooth | face,” had given MeVicar carbolic acid. | She "admitted that she had bought the acid and that she helped put the body in the trunk. Her story about there being a man named Miller was not readily be- | licved by the Antioch officer, her manner | not bearing it out. A telegram was sent to Sheriff Veale at Martinez and Under Sheriff P. H. Cun- ningham, who was at Black Diamond, | hurried to Antloch in a launch. In her woman strongly denied that she had com- mitted murder. < “Don’t quote me as saying that I killed this man, for I dldn’t,” she said, showing the first trace of excitement since her arrest. Being denied permission to go to her 3 - Globe, Ariz. She told every one that he had died of “miner's consumption.”” She also eaid that he had left her $10,000 life insurance. When she telephoned to Healy that Mc- Vicar *“had not long to liv she sald that he was dying of “miner’s consump- tion.” When she told Healy that Mc- Vicar was dead she added that, although his insurance had been changed to his mother's benefit, she had been promised $1000 of ft. When she first knew Healy he had $1000 life insurance for the benefit of his mother. When the date of the intended marriage between them was fixed, she drew from Healy a promise that he would take another insurance policy for her benefit. It can be strongly suspected from all this that Emma Le Doux may have murdered ‘more than one man by the same method and for the same purpose. o'clock on the Santa Fe Stockton traln. | Her method was to marry them, have them insure their lives and then murder or have them murdered to collect the insurance. The eerie calmness and calculation of the woman, together with her singular carelessness in covering up her tracks in the last affair, would tend to lead to the conclusion that she is the prey of some monstrous mania. Simplicity 1s the basis of appropriate framing. The per- HAD LONG PLANNED DEED, Secondly, as to her past and her mo- tives for murder: Her ‘first husband, Willlam Williams,. died under suspiclous circumstances in t fect harmeny as to patern, proportion and size becomes . part of the picture. Our experts frame pict tes from & standpoint to produce these results We invite you to see our art gallery. The Vlection of pictures s compre- hensive and complete. Sanborn, Vail & Co., T4l Market street. . ¥ ©ozes Her oFF ox — TOR. STOCKTON & | talk with Whelehan and Cunningham the | —g room alone she said to the officers: “I'm not going to kill myself; not on your life.”" 3 Then the woman assumed a rather flip- pant air that gave some indication -of mental derangement. Asked by a Call photographer whether he might take her picture she &ald jauntily: ‘Why, sure.” “Will you raise your veil? he asked. “Why, sure,” she repeated in the same tone and posed as if it were a very natural thing to do under the circum- i stances. Mrs. Le Doux was taken before Justice of the Peace Abbott soon after her ar- rest and made this much of a confession: SAYS DRINK CAUSED DEED. “We had all been drinking at Stockton {and McVicar and I were drunk. Joe Mil- {ler gave him carbolic actd. McVicar had {lots of money. I d know all that happened, for I wasn't in a condition to know just what I was doing. I helped Miller put the body 4n the trunk and then I sent it to the depot. I wanted to go to my mother at Jackson, but Miller made me go o San Francisco with him. We left San Francisco last night with tickets for Stockton, but Miller left me at Richmond. “I bought the acid in Jackson. It was among my things in the room at Stock- ton. When I entered the room after Mil- ler had given it to McVicar the bottle was lying on the floor with other of, my things. I did not see the acld given.™ Mrs. Le Doux gave a detailed state- ment of what she alleged to be the cir- cumstances surrounding the killing of McVicar. She said that he and Miller were out drinking together and came to the room in the California House several times during the night. Finally when they came back the last time at 4 o’clock she went out of the room for a short time and when she returned McVicar was lylng dying on the floor, frothing at the mouth. She and Miller put ‘him on the bed and he died there. She started to run from the room, but Miller displayed a knife and pistol and said he would kill her if she did not remain and keep quiet. VEALE THINKS MILLER MYTH. She said’ that Miller rode with her on the same train, but in a different car én the trip to San Franecisco until Niles was reached, when he came back and sat with her. Upon reaching here he told her to go to the Royal House. She says she went there and telephoned for her half- sister, who lives at 112 Fourth street. The next day Miller met her again and they started for Jackson. but when they got to Richmond he told her he was going back to San Francisco and for her to go on to Antioch and he would join her there. Sheriff Veale said last night he thought Miller was a myth. Mrs. Le Doux was asked if, when speak- ing of Miller, she did not have in mind Joseph Healy and whether it was not a fact that Miller was merely a person of her imegination. She stoutly declared that Miller existed and that she did not refer to Healy when she spoke of him. I don’t want you to get these men mixed,” she said. “Miller and Healy are | entirely different men.” In a telescope basket belonging to Mrs. Le Doux were found a bottle one-quarter filled .with carbolic acid, two pocket knives and two keys. Tt was from this bottle, ‘she said, that the fatal draught had been given McVicar. Deputy Sheriff Black and District At- torney Ngrton of San Joaquin took Mrs. Le Doux to Stockton this evening. —_— HEIRS OF MRS. STANFORD ASK FOR THE LEGACIES DUE THEM SAN JOSE, March 26.—The following petitions for partial distribution of the estate of Jane L Stanford, deceased, were filed In the Superior Court' this afternoon: ident of the Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses, San Fran- cisco, $10,000; the Catholic Orphan Asylum. $§5000; California Woman's IHoupn.al. $10,000; Mrs. Charles Robert- son, $1000; Edward Largely, $1000; Bertha Berner, $15,000; Sisters of the Holy Family, $10,000; San Jose Sani- tarium, $5000; College of Notre Dame, San Jose, $5000; Charles G. Lathrop, $1,- 000,000. Emma A. Harrington, pres-j returned to the mountains. One who was OM WOMAN'S NET 'PRISONER LAUGHS WHILE ON WAY TO PRISON. Crowds Surge About Railroad Station and Jail to Get View of Her. Stockton Officers Think Miller Is Creation STOCKTON, March 26.—Mrs. Emma | Le Doux, believed pokitively by the po- | lice to be the murderess of Albert N.| McVicar, whose body was found in | a trunk at the Southern Pacific station | in this city last Saturday night. is in | the County Jail here. She was brousht | | from Antioch this evening by Deputy | Sheriffs Black and Case and District At- | torney Norton, and faced a throng of wildly curious people when she was ! taken from the train. The woman was !in good spirits when she arrived and ! Jaughed several times while on the way | to the jall, where another crowd surged ! through all the strect space in hopes of i getting a view of her. The people In the throng showed far more excitement than this fragile woman, whe Is ac- cused of a deed as flendish as any ever committed by the desperate murderers of criminal history. The authorities here have concluded that the woman killed McVicar and handled the body alone. She insists that the man Miller was the murderer, 1t but officers believe that she herself | planned and executed the deed. ?::} rolled the body off the bed into trunk, so the officers claim, and crowd- ed it into the receptacle. She is show-| ing remarkable nerve, and joked as she | went to her cell. Miller is a mythical person, according to the police. “District Attorney Norton stated this evening that the worgan's arralgnment would not be keld in the immediate fu- ture. So far as s known, she has made no effort to obtain legal aid. | The body of McVicar has been viewed | by a constant stream of people today. | Morbid women and girls were promi- nent. No attempt was made to stop the crowd. Even schoolgirls elbowed thelr | way in and gazed at the features of the | murdered man. One woman was Su cu- | rious that she drew the sheet from the | | body. Deputy Shuster concluded that | this was golng further than even the | iax Morgue rules permitted and he hus- | tled her from the place. Efforts will be made to locate the rel- atives of the man before the remains | are disposed of. It is believed lte had a brother in Denver. A friendly letter from that city was found in his pocket, its terms Indicating that the writer was a brother. MORBID CROWDS IN STOCKTON. Fftorts are also being made to ac- count for the picture of the murdered man taken with a little girl. As it was only a stamp-photo and did not bear the photographer’s mark, the {dentification of the child has not been made. Scenes never before witnessed in this city attended the return of the Le Doux woman. Morbid curiosity seemed taken possession of Stockton. The news had been widely dissemin- ated that she would be brought in on the evening train, but whether it was to be the Santa Fe or the Southern Pa- cific was uncertain.. People began gathering at both places a half hour before train time. ¢ Men, women and children jostled each other at both places and when the trains rolled in they made a rush for to have every exit from the coaches. he police office had made no aFrange- ments to receive the party, and,.although | the people were good natured, it looked | for a while as if it would be separated. | The -woman was the coolest person in the | lot. She smiled as she emerged from the | car and saw the crowd rush toward | As she where she was to leave the car. came down the steps she smiled again in apparent curlosity and amusemem‘al‘ the eagerness displayed to see her. She | was both vain and game. As she had { posed for her photgraph at Antloch she was willing also to be the center of in- tesest here. ASKS ABOUT HER MOTHER. On the train the alleged murderess is said to have asked the officers if they thought her mother knew of her plight. The papers she read with some relish, but her face betrayed no mental com- ment, if she was making any. Most of the trip from Antloch was made in a baggage car. lf‘lsss'.aled by an officer that for three | or four days previous to the arrival here | ©of Mrs. Le Doux and McViear a man an- | swering the description of the swarthy | looking foreigner, who is reported to have been with her at the depot the day she | fled the city, watched the trains from the | mountains anxiously. He scanneds the | passengers and the baggage and made inquiries. He became known to at least one policeman. who says the man dropped | out of sight the Friday the couple ar- rived. The incident would not have been re- | called but for the story of the stranger | who was with the Le Doux woman at the depot, shared her excitement over the non-arrival of the trunk and rushed with her at the last minute to the lrllr}. i There is reason to believe the woman's statement to the officers today as to her movements in Stockton confirmed the re- ports gathered by the local officers. She | readily acknowledged buying the trunk at Rosenbaum’s, purchasing the rope af Shaw's and to the transactions at Breu- J rniture store. ne;: t!o“her conduct outside the California lodging-house there seems to be no reason for dispute. The mystesy begins in room 97 of that rooming place. Joe Miller, i myth, or misnamed accomplice, is brought into her affairs Friday afterncon. She iclaims him as an old acquaintance in Arizona. McVicar and Miller are alleged to have been friends. STOMACH TO BE ANALYZED. District Attorney Norton states that he | erop. 3 vinced that Miller is a myth and I::mim(‘he woman did the murder single- déd and alone. hu.\nt this point a previous matrimonial ex- perience of the Le Doux woman is i brought to the foreground. In the latter } part of 1¥1, or early in 1%2 or there- abouts, she married Willam Williams at Bisbee, A. T. Those who knew her in the mountains were aware of the mar- riage. The man died at Globe, A. T. The circumstances are not kmown, but con- sumption is said to have caused his death. Shortly afterward the Le Doux woman there at the time and who knew her wild disposition sald there was quiet comment that she had shaken him or left him in some canyon. Now comes the report that she collected $10,000 in life insurance on Willlams' death. She does not deny this, nor does she y that McVicar, whom she next took for husband, shared this money. It is said that she charg:s that he dissipated it in mining speculation and high living. Although saying that she of Mrs. Le Doux’s Fancy. Physicians Still Say That Death of Mc Vicar Was Due to a Blow. held no enmity toward MeVicar, making way with her money, she yet be- jtrays some feeling indicating that he had not been fully forgiven. Coroner Southworth has taken chargs of the stomach of McVicar and it will go to an expert chemist in San Franeisco. in order that its contents may be thorough- ly analysed. The surgeons still say a blow on the head killed McVicar. Deputy Sheriff McCulloch is at James- town. working on the mysterious man theory. It Is said that he was sent to inquire particularly as to one man's movements, Much information may be gained there that will be valuable. TRAIN' DROPS INTO STREAN Falls Through a Trestle in Wyoming and Six Persons Are Killed and Score Hurt CASPER, Wyo.,, March 26.—Melting snow and high water caused the worst wreck in the history of the Wyoming divi- sion of the Chicago and Northwestern Rallroad when a work train returning to Casper from the construction camps west of here dropped into a stream near Na- trona, twenty miles west of here, this morning. Six men are known to have lost their lives. One of these, Charles Noll. was foreman of the outfit. The names of the others have not been learned. Twenty- one were injured, some fatally. The wreck occurred at 5 o'clock as the train was crossing the stream. The en- gine passed over safely, but its weight broke down the piling, which had been undermined by the flood waters, and the cars following dropped into the ravine. The one coach of the train was fllled with Austrian and Italian labarers. This coach was telescoped by a heavy water car fol- lowing and was crushed like an eggshell. Many of the passengers were caught un- der the wreckage, and it was hours befors they were taken out. One or two were drowned and some were killed outright. Several of the laborers were thrown into the water and narrowly escaped drown- ing. Word was sent to Casper as quickly as possible, but it was cighteen hours before relief could be “extended to the imjured. The weakened condition of the bridges, due to the floods, made it unsafe to send a train to the sceme, and handcars were pressed into service and three surgeons and a party of citizens set out for the place. Shortly after starting the rellef party ran into a severe snowstorm and was compelled to abandon the cars and proceed on foot. In the meantime pile- drivers and bridge gangs were sent from Rapid City and the bridges west of Cas- per repaired. At noon a relief train was | sent cut and later brought in the dead and irjured. The blame for the wreck seems to rest on no ene in particular, as the train was proceeding slowly and cautiously under orders to be on the lookout for bad places |in the track. The Coroner will hold an inquest tomorrow. STEAMER BURNED AT NEWPORT DOCK Other Property Destroyed and Loss Will Reach a Million Dollars. NEWPORT, R. I, March 27. —Fire early today destroyed the Fall River Line steamer Plymouth as she lay at Ner dock here, the north picr of thé fréight shed and hoisting apparatus aajoining. and damaged the freight steamer City of Lowell. Much other property was tempo- rarily threatened. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. —_—————— RAISE IN PRICE OF RAISINS MAY RESULT IN A “WAR” Canners’ Association Flaunts “Red Flag” Before the Mercantile Comcern, Its Rival. FRESNO, March 26.—The California Canners’ Association, which has enter- ed the raisin fleld in active competition | with the Mercantile packing combina- tion, has advanced the price of raisins to 3% cents a pound. The Mercantile people announced that 3 cents was all they would pay. The canners say they will build packing houses of sufficient capacity to handle the entire raisin \ $1.60 AND MORE *‘ON AND OFF linuneolr