The San Francisco call., 1906-04-01
Empty Walls Found
in Room at Lex
ington.
Man Tells of Selling
Chopper to the
Woman.
Samples of Cyanide
Given CHEMIST
to Examine.


District Attorney Norton of San Joa-
quin County stole stealthily into town
yesterday morning, accompanied by
Sheriff Sibley and a stenographer. The
purpose of Norton's visit here was to
/ Interview the proprietor and servants
of the Lexington lodging-house, where
Mrs. Ile Doux was supposed to have
attempted to poison McVicar some
weeks ago. Norton talked with the
attaches of the place, after which De-
tective Charles Taylor managed to
locate the hardware man who sold Mrs.
LIE Doux the cleaver. Taylor took Nor
ton to the dealer. and he was also in
terviewed by the Mill City prosecutor.
who seems to have assumed also the
sleuth end of the case.
1t now seems assured fact that
Mrs. LIE Doux attempted TO poison Nc
Vicar at the Eddy-street Iodging-house
on the night OF March II. The Japan
ese servant who attends to the rooms
there found three small vials on the
floor of the room the day the couple
left, March IA. He threw these away,
but noticed that one of them bore a
red label and was marked with skull
and crossbones.
Captain of Detectives Burnett de-
tailed Detective Charles Taylor to help
Norton out when the latter arrived yes
terday morning. Taylor quickly sue
ceeded in finding the hardware store
where Mrs. LIE Doux purchased the clea-
yer on the afternoon of March 13. This
place is located at 235 Powell street,
and is owned by e. Lord.
MRS. LIE DOUX BUYS CLEAVER.
Lord is positive in his identification
of the woman. He said she appeared at
his place of business on the afternoon
of Tuesday, March 13, and purchased
an ordinary cleaver. She said she
wanted 1t to cut meat with. and did
not display any sign Of emotion when
making the purchase. She was alone
when she entered the store, and after
paying for the cleaver departed without
attracting any more attention.
Lord thought nothing more of the
incident till ne read of the finding of
the cleaver in the room at Stockton.
When Detective Taylor located him and
! questioned him regarding the woman
who bought the article on the after
noon of March I3 his memory was re-
freshed and he recalled the incident
without difficulty.
After leaving the hardware store
Norton, in company with Taylor, went
to the Lexington lodging-house with
his stenographer to interview the pro-
prietor, Fritz Kleinschroth, and the
Japanese porter, Harry Al1azaki, who
waited on McVicar and the woman, and
whom the latter sent to purchase so4e
tamales. The Jap is an unusually
bright lad, and remembered the Incl
dents of the case thoroughly. He made
the following statement to Norton:
JAPANESE TELLS HIS STORY.
"Mcvicar and Mrs. lie Doux came
! here on Monday morning, March IL. 1
showed the couple to the room on the
third floor. They seemed very affec-
tionate. McVicar appeared to be in
perfect health. She appeared to be
, trying to persuade McVicar to lie down
when I left the room.
The next time saw Mrs. LIE Doux she
was at the telephone in the office, talk
+ ing, I think. to Dr. Dillon. Between 6
and in the evening DIR. Dillon called
to see McVicar, and remained In his
, room until about 1920 When he left
Mrs lie Doux came with him to the
, head of the stairs.
"At 7:3O O clock the same evening Mrs. LIE
Doux sent me out to buy some tamales.
She gave me 25 cents, of which l spent 20
cents for the tamales. When returned
with them she asked me for plate and
fork for each of them. / saw her no more
until the following day, when Mrs. lie
Doux went in and out of the house sew
eral times in the course of the AFTERNOON.
"Mcvicar and Mrs. LIE Doux stayed /
think, two days in the Lexington Hotel.
After their departure cleaned the room
and found three small round bottles.
They were about the size Of half-burned
cigar / threw them in the ash barrel and
they were removed the following day.
do not know where they were bought.
think one of the bottles had a red label
with crossbones, but am not sure of this.
THINKS MURDER WAS TRIED.
AFTER 1 read in the paper that Nc
, Vicar had been killed by Mrs. LIE Doux
! at once concluded that she tried to kill
, him while they were here in the hotel and
that the bottles which had found prob
ably contained poison
"When Dr. Dillon left heard him say
to Mrs. lie Doux that Mcvicar was suf-
fering from an attack of stomach trou-
ble''
Fritz Kleinschroth. proprietor Of the
Lexington lodging house, said:
"Mcvicar was taken sick here in the
afternoon of the 12th- Dr. Dillon was
called the same evening. When he left
he told me that McVicar had an attack of
stomach trouble. Tut that he would prob
ably be all right in the morning. l saw
nothing in the behavior Of Mrs. lie Doux
to excite my suspicion"
Professor Roy Ravone Rogers, the chem
ist who examined McVicars stomach and