The evening times., 1898-10-05
DEATH REVEALS Crime
Dr.. DetWiller's Diagram Points
the Way to Plunder.
| NEWPORT SENSATION
The Physician, before Diving, Draws
Plan of the Hiding Place of Ger
tain Chattels-The Paper Falls
Into IL Detectives Hands, Who
Finds the Property Is stolen.

Newport Oct. 5.-When DR.. DetWiller
and his wife arrived in Newport about a
year ago they took possession of house
in fashionable Lincoln Street. 1t was
furnished handsomely The couple ap-
ment.
Mrs. Detwillers gowns attracted atten-
ton even in Newport, the richest summer
colony in America and where the best
dressed women in the world congregate.
DR.. Detwiller put out shingle. but he
appeared to be utterly Indifferent to pa
tients, When he was summoned he re
sponded quickly, but neither he nor his
wife made any efforts to place themselves
on a friendly footing with their neigh
bors. 1t was plain that they preferred
remaining in shell.
When Fitzhugh Whitehouse called on
DR.. Detwiller and practically made him
the family physician, it gave him pres
tige. With this opening alone he could
easily have gained fashionable practice,
which means u lucrative one.
But DR.. Detwiller was indifferent He
preferred TO drive, TO talk with his wife
and to read, when he was in Newport, for
he made many journeys to neighborins
towns and frequently TO Boston. Mrs.
DetwiIlers 5 gowns came from fashion
able dressmaker in Boston.
The villagers, as the people who reside
in Newport the year round are called 10
distinguish them from the summer visi-
tors who own magnificent places they
cali cottages, are naturally curious.
They wanted to know all about DR.. Det-
willer and his wife. But during Wnole
year they found out absolutely nothlnS.
The Detwillers would tell nothing about
| themselves, and no one else knew. 1t was
| not even discovered whence they came
The general impression was that DIR. Det-
Willer hailed from Boston, and that he
was man of large means VINO preferred
study TO general practice.
Speculation about the Detwillers had
almost ceased when DR.. Detwiller died
| last week. Immediately there came SEN
| sation. While the woman whom New
| port knew as and believed to be DR.. Det-
! willer's wife was mourning for him, an
| other woman appeared upon the scene.
| She said that she was DR.. Detwiller s
| wife; that they had beeen married long
| before he met the woman with whom he
! lived in Newport, and that they had never
! been divorced. The first Mrs. DetwiIer
was accompanied by her brother, VIII
liam Dorster, of Bethlehem, Pa.
The second Mrs. Detwiller had ordered
a coffin that cost $500 for the dead doctor
The first Mrs. Detwiller sent 1t back 10
the undertaken and had a cheaper one
| substituted.
| There were scenes of course. The New
port Mrs. Detwiller told the nefghbors
that she was being prosecuted. They
knew her and they did not know the
| Bethlehem Mrs. Detwiller. So when the
| Newport wife gathered all the bric-a-brac
jewelry, rugs, pictures, and china that
! could be easily carried off they agreed tc
| take care of them for her until she could
! return.
She placed DR.. Detwiller's will and pa.
pers in the hands of a lawyer, and dis
| appeared, leaving the Bethlehem wife
and brother in full possession. The will
! was drawn by DIR. Detwiller himself Ev-
! erything had been left TO the Newport
wife There was no suggestion as tC
the amount OF his estate
To one paper Mrs Detwiller No. .
that is the Newport wife, called the
| lawyers attention particularly. Before
DR.. Detwiler passed away he called the
| Newport wife TO his side and handed
her a diagram. He told her she must
guard it carefully, and in case of his
death she was to follow its directions
implicitly.
The Newport Mrs. Detwiller told the
lawyers she was sure that the diagram
would reveal the hiding place of bond:
! and other things of great value.
Detective Denman went to the house II
Lincoln Street when the two young wive!
were threatening each other. He saw
there several chemical appliances anC
delicate apparatus, which seemed to hin
out of place. Denman Immediately re
lid ha iahr ta,-1- of pr-oF Gn1
colt Gibbs was robbed on March 6, ani
that Instruments as well as silverwar
were carried away.
Denman went to the lawyer and fount
out about the diagram. They went to tn
house together. They found creditor
stationed there to prevent the carrying
off of more furnishings.
Nothing was easier than following tn
instructions of the diagram. They wer
led to the inside stairway. The thir
step was marked with a cross.
The top of the step was pried open wit
| a hammer and chisel. The space beneat
/ was packed full of loot There wer
packages of pure silver silverware bear
ing the mark of Prof. Gibbs, costly II
struments of delicate workmanship, coil
OF platinum wire and other booty, tn
whole of which was valued at about s2 O0
; Many of the articles were identified b
| Prof Gibbs as his property. One or tW
, packages bore his own handwriting.
, Denman was so much excited by tf
| discovery that he did not search the re:
of the house The police are going to q
| that tomorrow.
The Bethlehem Mrs. Detwiller said thf
the doctor was once a rich man. Whe
| he deserted her for the Newport Mr.
| Detwiller he had at least s501, 600. bl
L | that the second Mrs Detwiller had ruiz
ed him. She thinks that most of II
money had gone before the couple can
; to Newport to live.
The police had found out that DR.. De
1 willer made many quiet visits to Fa
: River, Warren, Bristol, Providence ar
l other enighboring places. They ha'
: learned that man named Rand in Bo
ton bought silverware and other articl
:, of value from man in Newport who
. description tailed with that OF Detwille
. and they think that he may be connect'
with many burglaries in Newport whlt
they could not explain.