The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-04

Upon the Identification Of . body. now
lying In Bonney & Stewards morgue,
which was nshed out OF the bay Friday
afternoon. depends the question as to
whether or not a brutal murder. with
robbery az the incentive. was committed
in this city about ten days ago. The
body answers tho description in . re-
markedly accurate manner. considering
its condition. of Julius Wilson, who Is
known to have arrived in Seattle from
Tacoma on October q with over $500 in
his possession.
The strong evidence. though entirely
circumstantial. tending to show that the
body now lying In the morgue 10 that OF
Wilson was yesterday developed In the
search for her husband by Mrs Wilson.
who arrived in this city from st. Paul
via Tacoma yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon, to . Post-Intelli-
gencer reporter. Mrs. Wilson described
infinitely her husbands appearance. She
stated that she left st. Paul for Ia
coma on Tuesday last to join her hus-
band. who until recently was employed
in the erection of the Northern Pacific
warehouses at Tacoma. When Mrs. Wilson
arrived in Tacoma she ascertained that
her husband. who had expected her to
arrive on the Saturday previous, had left
instructions with the postmaster to for
ward his mail to this city, stating that
he was coming here to seek employment,
and would call for It at the general de-
livery.
Mrs Wilson, accompanied by her two
children. boy and girl, aged respec-
lively and years. arrived in this city
yesterday, and. failing to locate her hus-
band, proceeded to the postoffice. where
she discovered several letters awaiting
delivery, among them one from herself
written at st. Paul. explaining that she
would be delayed in her departure
Thinking It strange that the letters had
not been called for, yet with no thought
that her husband had met with foul play,
Mrs Wilson reported the matter to Po-
lice Matron Taylor.
When advised by q Post-Intelligencer
reporter that the description of the body
now lying In the morgue Tailed striking
ly with that given by her Of her husband.
Mrs. Wilson accompanied the police
matron and the reporter to the under
takers to view the remains.
overcome with fear that her now thor
oughly aroused suspicious were we'll
founded, yet hoping that they were not,
the women entered the morgue Fore
man Watson provided her with a mfnute
description OF the body, but she remained
in doubt as to its identity. Finally she
summoned courage and looked at the re-
mains. The color of the hair mustache.
height. weight and character of clothing
worn by deceased were carefully pointed
out to her In an effort to establish the
pody's Identity independent OF its feat
ures, which are unrecognizable owing to
long submersion in tho water.
Mrs. Wilson stated that in each of
these respects the body tailed with the
description OF her husband. A peculiar
arrangement of the front teeth OF the
missing husband Is the one feature which.
In the body of the man recovered from
tho bay, fails to correspond with that
OF Wilson. The upper front teeth Of
the body are smooth and uniform. where
as. Mrs. Wilson states. those of her hus-
band slightly overlapped at the center
Of the mouth. Decomposition. however,
Is in such an advanced stage that the
teeth may have thereby been loosened
from their natural positions in tho mouth
The failure of Mrs. Wilson to estab-
lish the identity of the body adds addi-
tional complications to the case. The
police department Is of the opinion that