The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-31
NELL CROPsEY
BODY SENT NORTH.
Will be Buried W here She.
Spent Happy Childhood
CASE AGAINST WILCOX
Lawyer Cropsey VIII Return to.
Prosecute Him.
SPIRITED AWAY FOR SAFETY
falen from Elizabeth City in a Wagon Bound
for NorfoIk-fie Was Seen at midnight
In Seeming Effort 10 Drag the
Young Girl Towards The
River-Wicox Has
Friends.
SPIRITED AWAY FOR SAFETY
fsncc,sI Dispa,ch to The Times. /,


SUFFOLK, VA, dec. SIN the pres
ence of 500 people gathered in and around
The Elizabeth City Railroad Station this
afternoon The caskct containing Ella
Cropsey's remains was Started to its
Northern resting place. 1t was a sad
faced asscmblage which had come to bid
silent farewell to all left of the sweet
young woman whose tragic and mysterl-
>us death aroused heartfelt interest all
through tho South and East.
Nclrs mother was TOO much af1ected to
-idc TO the station. The intermcnt Will
be held about IL o'clock TUESDAY from the
new Utrecht Reformed Dutch burying-
;round, at Eighty-fourth ST. and Sixteenth
avenue, Brooklyn. When Ella was a
little school girl in Brooklyn she tripped
by there every day" said Lawyer An
5rcw G. Cropsey, of New York, who is
With the body. She attended pubic
school No. 101, whose site ! sold to the
trustees in 1889
Mrs Cropsey- has gazcd out irto the
river every day and night The effect
has been so great that one eye is very
painful, because a cord is badly strained.
OPINION OF WILCOX
Discussing the case aginst Wilcox as
the train sped northward, M. Cropsey
continued: Il don't think he can escape.
] think Wilcox would like to go out ana
be a Western ruffian, but that can never
happen. for ] don't believe he will ever
seave elizabeth City alive.
NO | don't think the body was thrown
into the river on the night Of her disap-
rearance. think Wilcox tried to make
she would not
lie was Jealous Ella said to me ii Octo-
Der: Uncle Andrew. ! have made UP my
mind not to have anything to do with
Jim Sometimes he's very nice. but then
he's eccentric and has such peculiar ways.
] don't think Wilcox did it alone, and
don't think he meant to Kill her that
night"
WANTED wHISKEY.
According to the guards, wilcox tod
his sister that the jail was no place for
her when she came to see him. ASKING
# she could do anything for him, Wal
cox replied that she might bring MN a
quart of whskey. Lawyer Aydlett sala'
wilcox may make another statement
within a day or two. but wa2ts f'rst 10
see his father. and he is sick.
You can say there will be enough
evidence before the grand jury to secure
an indictment. This is a hard case, nuS
no stone will he lett ulrtuFneu. --eiE
10 some Very damaging evidence, which
believe would insure his conviction,
but there is doubt as to its admissl-
hility.'
EVIDENCE AGAINST WILCOX.
The strongest alleged evidence against
WILCOX. il il can be proved in court. IS
that he was seen graphing with MISS
Cropsey about midnight after her dis,
appearance in front OF the Cropsey home
in a seeming effort to drag her to the
river. 1t is also claimed Wilcox cannot
account for his whereabouts letween
the Cropsey residence and his home
and that he did rot so home the usual
way. A part OF the citizens committee
believes they have complete state S
case.
Wilcox clains 10 have no fear of lynch
ing. Confinement is already telling, ana
before the March grand jury it is believed
his assumed Indifference will vanish.
Wilcox is in a murderer's cage, the
strongest in prison. Wilcox has some
friends who hold that most public SYM
patty should go to his family.
LATEST EVIDENCE,
The latest alleged evidence against WIT
cox IS an empty .whiskey bottle found
near the river bank. A liquor dealer
Identified the bottle as having been sold
at his place. and said that Wilcox
bought the bottle, or one like IT.