The San Francisco call., 1897-11-12
TO
SOLVE THE
MYSTERY
Dixon's Double Murder
Still Puzzles the
Officers.
THEORIES, BUT NOT A
CLEW.
Failure SO Far to Connect
Anybody With the
Crime.
FRANK EELEW AND WIFE
INTERVIEWED.
Indignantly Deny Number Of Ru-
morS- Excitement Over the
Crime Unabated.
Failure SO Far to Connect
Anybody With the
Crime.
FRANK EELEW AND WIFE
INTERVIEWED.
Indignantly Deny Number Of Ru-
mors- Excitement Over the
Crime Unabated.
Special Dispatch 10 THE CALL

WOODLAND Nov. IL. - The Belew
POISONING case is still mystery to most
Of those who are directly concerned. Tne
officers have been working to-day upon q
theory that death was the result of foul
play and that there was strong motive
Tor it, but they have not been very sue
cessful In accum ulating evidence. They
learned that Frank Belew met his wife at
the Davisvile depot Wednesday night
and perhaps attached more i'm portance to
the circumstance than it deserved. They
have been living apart for some time and
there was much speculation as 10 the mo-
tive that brought them together on the
day OF the double funerai.
District Attorney Deviin, Sheriff Rush
and Constable Newly, all of SUlano
County, went to Davisviile to-day and
sought an interview with Mrs. Belew.
She was verv reluctant to talk. but finally
consented 10 answer any reasonable ques
tions that might be asked her. She ex-
planned that the meeting at the depot
Wednesday wa not prearranged. She
went to the train to meet her sister, VINO
attended the funeral The officers had
been told Mrs. Belew had made. the stat E.
ment that her huS band had declared that
a part OF the estate was justly due him
and he intended 20 have II by fair means
if possible, but by foul means if necessary.
Mrs. Belew denied this in the most posi-
tive terms. She said, however, that there
never could be any reconciliation between
herself aud her husband and that she was
afraid to live with him.
Belew returned from Sacramento on the
afternoon train. He got off at the Davis
vile depot and shook hanL with friends,
but made no effort 10 see his wife. He
continued his journey to Dixon. A CALL
repre- ~entative met him on hi, arrival, and
told him frankly that he was suspected of
knowing something about the poisoning
of his brother and sister, and asked him
if he had any statement TO make. He
stoutlv protested his innocence, and said
be courted prompt and thorough investi-
CATION. He Omitted that there had been
IN ill feeling between himself anu bis
brother ana sister. but declared that there
had been a reconciliation, and that for
some time befor the awful tragedy they
had been on amicab BILE terms. He deniel
that he had made any objections to the
proposed marriage of his sister with young
Ehmann. He did object to her marriage
with Harry Allen. AM he and his wife
had been instrumen a, in breaking off the
match. He spoke with much bitterness
concerning Allen, and while he made no
direct accusation there was an evident de-
sire 10 give out an impression that Allen
is a bad man.
District A torney Devlin to-day received
a telegram from the San Francisco chem
ist who is making the analysis OF the
stomachs, water and various articles of
food, stating that the water contained no
evidence of the presence of arsenic. He
advised the chemist to hurry up ne analy-
sis OF the salt Late Wednesday evening
he received another telegram stating that
there was neither arsenic nor antlmony in
the salt.
Professor Grinstead of the Dixon High
School applied the Marsh test to-day to
water taken from the tea kettle and found
arsenic. Water from tn, kettle was used
in making coffee and mush in the morn
ing and soup in the afternoon. The Off
GERS now believe that the arsenic was put
in the kettle and not in the we'll. The re-
suit of the stomach analysis is awaited
with great anxiety.
Although the victims have been buried
and the employees who were poisoned are
considered out of danger, the excitement
is nabated: indeed, the feeling is so in
tense that conclusive proof of the guilt of
any person would PROBABLY incite lynch
ipo hpe