Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-27
NJ VICAR KILLED
FOR HIS MONEY
ACCUSED WOMAN CONFESSES
TO THE POLICE
Arrested at Antioch, She Is Taken to
Stockton-CIaims Man Named
Miller Gave Poson-Story
Is Discredited
BY Associated Press.

ny associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.-The
mystery connected with the finding of
the dead body of Albert N McVicar in
trunk at the Southern Pacific depot
at Stockton on Saturday night has
practically been solved though a few
details of the crime are lacking The
identification of the body yesterday,
coupled with the fact that a woman
passed as McVicar's wife, but whose
real name is Mrs. Emma LeDoux, had
left Stockton shortly after the tragedy,
was followed today by the arrest of the
woman at Antioch in Contra Costa
county. She admitted that she knew
of the murder and in statement made
before Justice of the Peace Abbott de-
clared that the actual perpetrator of
the crime was a man whom she knew
as Joseph Miller. Mrs. LeDoux made
the following statement:
I'VE had all been drinking and Nc
Vicar and I were drunk. McVicar had
lots of money and Joe Miller gave him
| carbolic acid. Then | don't know just
what happened. Miller and 1 put the
| body in a trunk and sent it to the de-
pot. 1 wanted to go right away to my
| mother at Jackson, but Miller would not
| let me- He made me go to San Fran
cisco with him Saturday night and
Sunday Last night we left San Fran
cisco with tickets for Stockton. At
Richmond Miller left me and went back
to San Francisco and 1 got off at An
| tioch.
Poison Theory Suggested
Il did not kill Mcvicar He died
| after a quarrel with Miller. l went
into the room and saw McVicar froth-
ing at the mouth. He may have been
given Carbolic acid by Miller when 1
| was out of the ROOM"
Here the woman produced a bottle of
| carbolic acid from which some had
been taken and also a knife which she
said belonged to Miller.
miller got all the money" she con-
! tinued II do not know how much
there was, but he got it. After McVicar
was dead 1 went out and bought the
| trunk. Yes, that's true. Then we went
to the Southern Pacific station after
he put the body in the trunk. 1 helped
| him do that"
The local police learned that Mr.. Le-
Doux was visited in this city on Sat-
urday night by Joseph Healy, A
he did so in response to a telegram
! from Mrs. LeDouX, whom he had
known for several years. At one time
| he said they were engaged to be mar
ried, but the engagement was broken
off at the solicitation of his mother.
| continuing, ne SAID:
Insurance Feature
| Il remained at the lodging house
| quite late Saturday night, and went
back again Sunday. I was sitting in
| the ladies' parlor reading, when l hap
pened to notice the story of the stock
ton murder. I told her it was a ter
said, Yes, 1t was
"Then | did not know 1t was Nc
Vicar who had been killed. so I asked
her what had become or McVicar. She
said he had died at Sonora and that
McVicar's brother had shipped the
! body to Denver. She also told me Nc
Vicar had a $4,000 insurance policy that
| had been made out to her as benefi-
| ciary, but said he had later had 1t
transferred to his mother. She said
that McVicars brother had told her,
however. that he would get her $4,000
out of it,
Healy visited police headquarters vol
UNFAIRLY. The police believe his story,
and find a motive for the Stockton
crime in the references to the insur-
ance policy on McVicar's life and the
money he was known to possess. They
are now hunting for the Woman's male
accomplice, who is not believed to be
| far away.
Mrs. LeDoux is we'll known in the
red light district of San Francisco. Her
maiden name was Emma Head. Sew
eral years ago she married man
named Barrett, but they soon sepa-
rated and she became the wife of Will
liam Williams. They went to Arizona,
where Williams died, it is said, under
peculiar circumstances. She is alleged
| to have collected heavy insurance
policy on his life. She returned to
California and married LeDoux,
Frenchman residing at Jackson, Am
ador county.
At the Stockton hotel, where the
crime occurred, the murdered mac
registered for the two as "A. N. Nc
Vicar and Wife" In this city she reg
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