Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-24
NO NEW LIGHT
ON WILCOX CASE
POLICE CHIEF BELIEVES WIFE
COULD NAME MURDERER
No Evidence to Prove Woman Was
3 Married to Dead Man and She Is
Said to Have Another
Husband

No arrest has yet been made in con
nection with the probable murder o
Jesse Wilcox, the young employe o.
the street railway who was found deaC
In his bedroom at 6SS San Pedro stree
Monday night under suspicious circum
stances.
. All evidence has been turned over tc
the district attorneys office and nc
complaint has been issued so far by the
district attorney The police are still
working on the murder theory and Bit
by bit are gathering new scraps of cir
cumstantial evidence tending to show
that Wilcox was murdered just before
midnight by a person who had n mo-
tive for the terrible act
District Attorney Fredericks said
yesterday: Il have all the evidence at
hand in this case. | have not issued
any complaint and will not say what
this office may do in the case"
Thinks wife Can Explain
Chief of Police Auble said to the re-
porters yesterday: Il think that Mrs.
Wilcox can explain the death of her
husband. So far she is the one person
who seems to know how her husband
was killed. The case has been reported
to the district attorneys office ana it
Is for them to order an arrest of Mrs.
Wilcox or of any other suspected party,
II they deem the evidence sufficient"
The police say that Mrs. Carrie Flem-
ing Wilcox has been under suspicion
ever since the shooting, but that there
has not been enough evidence so far to
arrest her on so serious a charge.
Although practically admitting that
she was never legally married to Will
cox and admitting that she was drunk
on the night of the tragedy, the wo-
man denies positively that she knows
more about the death of her
husband that she has already told. She
claims to have loved him dearly and
said their life together was a happy
one.
Even if arrested there would not be
any more proof of Mrs. Wilcox's con-
nection with an alleged murder than
now.
She is being watched, naturally
enough, by the police, and others are
also being shadowed.
Woman Is Frustrated
Mrs. Wilcox is now in a delicate con-
dition and ever since Monday night has
been hysterical and nervously pros
trated. 1t has been with the utmost
ullllCully lHdI dllylHlllS IdnRlDle COulQ
be gotten from her and nothing has
been given out by the detectives work.
ing on the case that would throw new
night on the puzzling death of Wilcox.
1T might surprise you," said a men,
ber of the police department who has
been following the case closely, "if
someone not even mentioned by the pa
pers should be arrested in connection
with the killing of Wilcox. Supposing
that Mrs. Wilcox knows who did it
and refuses to talk"
Mrs. Wilcox has all along claimed
that her husband committed suicide
and although not being able to give any
reasons for her belief she has denied
he theory of murder, upon which the
police have been working.
The father of the decedent, NJ. III.
still believes that his son was
murdered and accompanied the de-
ectives to the district attorneys office
yesterday to have a conference with
Captain Fredericks.
Mrs. Wilcox was formerly married to
lanes A. Fleming, an architect and
t is stated that her first husband was
A. S. Waring of Roxborough, N. Y.
chief of Police Auble found in San
Francisco no record of her marriage to
Wilcox and, if she did marry him, by
1er own statements she is guilty of
Oigamy.