The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-08
TAKE UP NEW SCENT
Philadelphia Police Convinced That Gies Did Not Send
 Poisoned Ale.
ARE NOW TEN DAYS BEHIND
Tracing Supposed Murderer by Means of Letters Sent to the
 Coroner.

Philadelphia, July With the elIm- ination of Frederick Gies. jr. from the case the police of this city today be- gan tracing the movements of the sup posed murderer of Dr. William II. wil- son through Bristol. ;enton. Jersey City and New York toward Boston. Frederick Gies practically proved to the satisfaction of the authorities that he had nothing to do with the sending of the bottle of poisoned ale to Dr. ! Wilson on June 26. He was arralgned today before a magistrate and held In ss,o00 bail pending an investigation into
 the death of his wife, Elizabeth Will son Alexander Gies on June 10, though no charge was preferred against the prisoner. Detectives simply stated that In Investigating the Wilson mur- der they came across suspicious cir cumstances in connection with the
 death of the prisoners wife and desir- cd to have him held pending investi- lgation.
 Although no quantltative analysis has been completed 1t was officially an
 nounced at the coroner's office here to-
 day that Dr. Robinson the city chem
 ist, and Prof Meeker in an examina-
 tion of the ale sent to Dr. Wilson, found in that portion turned over to
 them. sufficient cyanide of potassium Ito kill twenty men. The chemists also reported that partial examination of
 the vlscera taken from Dr. Wilson's
 body show that 1t was literally satur-
 ated with cyanide.
 Detectives Long and Paul today sue
 ceeded in tracing the man supposed to
 be the murderer from here to Jersey
 City. The first clue in this direction
 came from the letter supposed to have
 been written by the murderer and sen' to the coroner from Bristol, Pa. The
 man who Is supposed to have mailed
 that letter got on Pennsylvania rail. road train at Torresdale a, suburb, or Saturday, June 27, at 12:S5 D. m. When the train reached Bristol al
 1249 he alighted and mailed a lette, and then got back on the train. From , the crew of the train the police secur f cd a description of this man and trac ed him to Trenton The found that Inc | got off the train there a few minute! after 1 o'clock and waited for the con meeting train to New York, which ht
 took The man got off the train at Jer f sey City and supposedly went to New
 York, though the days work of the de 2 tectives ended at Jersey City. The de scrlption of the man who travelel oi this train to Jersey City correspond s with that of the man who purchased 5 the type letter IS" from the Keyston
 Type foundry and which was used {, f stamp seal on the neck of the bottl 1 of poisoned ale.
 The description also corresponds wit :, that furnished by Fred Buckman, wh 8 received the package of ale at locs express office the day 1t was shipped { 5 Dr. Wilson,
 . The success of the police in tracin . this man convlnces them they are te u days behind time In taking up the rigf Il trail in the matter, and tomorrow the = will continue in their efforts to trat Il the supposed murderer to Bosto, whence a second letter was received b . the coroner from the supposed mul e dsrer.