Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-06
SUSPECT
 ARRESTED
Police Hold Man In Phila-
 delphia Poison Case.
LOST HIS WIFE RECENTLY

ooIice Theory Is That pr. Wilson May
 Have Encompassed Her Death, Lead
 ing Husband to Take Physicians Life
 In Revenge - Prisoner a Printer
 Whose Description Seems to Answer
 That of Man Who Sent Poisoned Ale
 to Wilson-story of Secret Marriage Revealed.
 Philadelphia, July 6-Frederick Gies, foreman of department in the press rooms of the Curtis Publishing com pany of this city, was taken into cus- tody by the police as a suspect in con- nection with the murder of Dr. Will liam H. Wilson, who died on June 26 after drinking bottle of poisoned ale which had been sent to him through a local express office. A direct charge has not been preferred against Gies, who denies any knowledge of the mur- der, but in their investigation of the crime the police authorities found cir cumstances in the life of Gies and his family that tallied so closely with the marked points and incidents in the his- tory of the Wilson murder that they felt bound to act. .'. ..t.
 In seeking for the murderer they looked for man who desired to avenge the death of his wife, who died while under the treatment of Dr. Will son. They learned that Gies' wife died recently, and, according to Edward Haas, fellow employee of Gies at whose home Mrs. Gles died, she had been attended by Dr. Wilson. Just what the cause of death was is not certain because of complications which presented themselves. +
 Conflict of Dates Alleged.
 On the day that Dr. Wilson received from the murderer a decoy letter in which 1t was stated that bottle of sample ale was being sent to him. os- tensibly from the brewery of Peter Schemm & Son, notice of the death of Mrs. Gies, whose full name was Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Alexander Gies, ap- peared in the Philadelphia newspapers. She was buried from the home of her brother-in-law, William c. Patterson, in West Philadelphia on that date. The death notices stated that she had died on June 19, and Thomas Graham, the undertaken who inferred the body, de- nIarod thaf daatb ano,rrad n,, fhot 5or and that the cause as he understood was Brlght's disease. If this was the case 1t would eliminate Gies as a pos sible suspect because the murderer is known 10 have purchased two initial letters at the Keystone Type foundry on June 15, which he called for a cou- pie of days later and which were sub- sequently used to stamp the seals on the bottle of poisoned ale. But the police allege that Haas told them that Mrs. Gies died at his home on June 6 and that Mrs. Haas corroborated him in this statement
 Furthermore. Mrs. Sarah Elliott, an undertaken, had been called in to take charge of the body of Mrs. Gies, which she did, subsequently, turning 1t over to Graham. Mrs. Elliott told the po- lice that the death occurred early in June. She would not declare positive ly that is was June c. but said 1t was certainly long before June 10. In ad- dltion to this 1t is alleged she told the police that on June she was called upon to bury an Infant child of Mrs. Gies.
 Back of this story of the incidents which could inspire crime such as the Wilson murder. in which the phy- sician, according to letters received by