The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-27
MILLER GOT THE MONEY.
Alleged Murderer of McVIcar Not
Vet Located.

Vet Located.
San Francisco. March 26.-The mys-
terry connected with the finding of the
dead body of Albert n. McVicar In q
trunk at the Southern Pacific depot at
Stockton on Saturday night has prac-
tically been solved, though a few de-
tails of the crime are lacking. The
Identification of the body yesterday,
coupled with the fact that a woman
who passed as McVicar's wife, but
whose real name is Mrs. Emma Le-
Doux, 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 a
statement made before Justice of the
Peace Abbott. declared 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 were drunk. McVicar had
lots of money, and Joe Miller gave him
carbolic acid. Then I don't know Just
what happened. Miller and I put the
body in the trunk and sent it to the
depot. wanted to go right away to
my mother at Jackson, but Miller
would not let me. He made me go to
San Francisco with him Saturday
night and Sunday. Last night we left
San Francisco with tickets for Stock
ton. At Richmond Miller left me and
went back to San Francisco, and I got
off here at Antioch.
Says Miller Did II.
'I did not kill Mcvicar. He died
after a quarrel with Miller. 1 went
into the room and saw McVicar froth-
ing at the mouth. He may have been
given carbolic acid by Miller when I
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, land I do not know how much
there was; but he got it. After Nc
Vicar was dead I went out and bought
went to the Southern Pacific station
after he put the body in the trunk.
helped him do that
Plumbers Story.
The local police learned that Mrs.
LeDoux was visited in this city on
Saturday night by Joseph Healy, a
plumber, and he admitted to them that
he did so in response to q telegram
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, he said:
4 remained at the lodging house
quite late Saturday night, and went
back again Sunday. I was sitting in
the ladies' parIor reading when I hap
pened to notice the story of the Stock
ton murder. I told her it was a ter
rible thing She was very cool, and
said: Yes, it was
Then I did not know it was Nc
Vicar who had been killed, so I asked
her what had become Of McVicar. She
said he had died at Sonora, and that
brother had shipped the
body to Denver, Colo. She also told me
McVicar had a $1,000 insurance policy
that had been made out to her as ben
but he had later had it trans
ferred to his mother. She said that
brother had told her, how
ever, that he would get her $1,000 out
Of it"
Police Believe Him.
HeaIy visited police headquarters
The police believe his
story and find a motive for the Stock
ton crime in the references to the
the money he was known to possess.
They are now hunting for the woman's
alleged male accomplice, who is not
believed to be far away.
Mrs. LeDoux is well known in the
redIight district Of San Francisco. Her
maiden name was Emma Head. Sew
eraf years ago she married man
named Barrett. but they soon separa-
ted and she became the wife of Will
liam williams. They went to Arizona
where William died, It is said, under
peculiar circumstances. She is alleged
to have collected a heavy insurance
policy on his life. She returned to Cal
fOrnia and married LeDoux, q French
man. residing at Jackson, Amador
county. At the Stockton hotel. where
the crime occurred, the murdered man
registered for the two as "a. n. Nc
Vicar and wife" In this city she reg
stered as Mrs Z. williams.
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