Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-06
Stockton Sheriff and District Attorney Make Stay in
 BiSbee.
PROSECUTING MURDERER
 TOE FORMER BlSBEEITE
Is, ,5sEJ .IeeA ,EtTsYdo2 A II, Gather Material to Be Used
 Against Mrs, le Doug for Alleged Killing of A, N, Mc- Wicker by Fomer Bisbeeite,
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After spending three days in Bisbee, during which they secretly attempted to gather information to be used in the prosecution of Mrs. Emma le Doug for the alleged murder in Stock
 ton of A. N. McVicker, formerly of Bisbee, Sheriff George T. McNoble
 and District Attorney Walter T. Sibley
 of Stockton, Cal. left yesterday for 1 Tombstone. ... In Tombstone, these two officials
 lost no time in getting from the train
 to the office of Probate Judge Good body. where they asked and received permission to examine his books for
 the purpose of determining positively that McVicker had married Emma
 Williams, which was then her name. While in Bisbee McNoble and Sibley employed Constable Doyle to assist them in gathering eyidence.1 Which wlli be used in the prosecution of Mrs.
 le Doug. They called in the services
 of several others, and it is said learn ed much of a material nature.
 While in Bisbee the two California officials acted with the greatest se- cTecy, almost swearing everyone with whom they had dealings to a promlse that nothing would be divulged re
 garding their presence in the clry, | their purpose here or anything they
 might learn.
 Not only in Bisbee did they make a search, but they drove to several sur rounding places. Most of what they
 learned from people with whom they l talked was taken in shorthand by a
 stenographer and later typewriter to be used when the trial of the woman comes up in Stockton.
 McNoble and Sibley delved deeply | irto the death of the woman nus
 band. Williams, to whom she was
 married before the alliance with Mo Wicker. It is said that they attempt ed to learn that there was ground for 1 believing that Williams death was not due to natural causes. but to pol- son administered by his wife, who is
 now charged with the murder of Me 1 Wicker.
 Several who were in the city when i Williams died recall that there was
 some gossip regarding the manner of ] his death. His widow received several 1 thousand dollars in insurance money, 1 1000 of 1t being from the Workmen | lodge, in which Williams was an ac- tive member.
 | It is charged against Mrs. Ie Douz that she administered an opiate to
 McVicker, from whom she had receiv- ed a divorce, and while he was in this condition struck him on the head with a blunt instrument, causing his death. ! This. 1t is claimed, was done in a
 rooming house in Stockton. the motive being to secure the proceeds of fur
 niture bought by McVicker.
 After his murder McVicker's naked body was placed in a trun, and sent
 to the Southern Pacific depot, the in- tenticn being to ship 1t out of that
 city. The plan failed; the railroad en- pIoyees noted the disagreeable odor
 coming from the trunk, opened it and found the decaying corpse of Me Wicker
 It took several days to locate Mrs. le Douz, she having left Stockton as soon as her scheme for disposing Of the body miscarried She was later ap-
 prehended near the home of her
 mother in Jackson county. She ciaiE2- ed that the murder had been com
 mitted while she was present by an other man. He has never been found, and the officials take no stock in her story.