Milford chronicle., 1908-07-10
RELEASED ON BAIL
Fred Giles Had Nothing to Do With
Wilson Murder.
HELD FOR WIFES DEATH

! Convict Nominated For President BY
Socialist Labor Party - Sherman
Welcomed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Will
Filed-Fall On Hay FOrk Fatal.
With the elimination of Frederick (
Gies, Jr. from the case, the police
Of Philadelphia have begun tracing
the movements of the supposed
murderer Of DR.. William H. Wilson
through Bristol, Trenton, Jersey City
and New York toward Boston. Fred
erick 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.. Will
son on June rs. He was arraigned be-
fore a magistrate and held in 5000 bail
pending an investigation into the death
of his wife, Elizabeth Wilson Alexan
der Gies, on June 10, though no charge
was preferred against the prisoner.
Detectives simply stated that in inves-
tigating the Wilson murder they came I
across suspicious circumstances in
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oner's wife and desired to have him S
held pending investigation.
Though no cumulative analysis has
been completed, it was officially an.
nounced at the coroner's office that
Dr. Robinson, the city chemist. and
Professor Meeker, in an examination ;
of the ale sent to DR.. Wilson, found in U
that portion turned over to them suf o
cient cyanide of potassium to kill "
twenty men. The chemists also report 1
ed that a partial examination of the II
viscera taken from DR.. Wilson's body II
show that it was literally saturated ~
with cyanide. ."
Detectives Long and Paul succeeded 10
in tracing the man supposed to be the ~
murderer from here to Jersey City ~
The first clue in this direction came II
from the letter supposed to have beer W
written by the murderer and sent to y
he coroner from Bristol, Pa. The mar pd
who is supposed to have mailed that Pc
etter> got on a Pennsylvania railroad 81
rain at Torresdale, a suburb, on Sat
lrday June 27 at 1886 p. m When
he train reached Bristol at 12.43 he
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hen got back on the train. From the 1,
rev of the train the police secured no 30
description of this man and traced him 80
o Trenton They found that he got of -
he train there a few minutes after d.
ne o'clock and waited for the con r.
Getting train to New York, which he 80
)ok. The man got off the train at Jer ~.
ey City and supposedly went to New no,
DIRK. though the work of the dc H.
sctives ended at Jersey City. The ~,
escription of the man who Travelled NJ.
n this train to Jersey City cores "a
)nds with that of the man who pur a.,.
lased a type letter IS" from the Key sbr
one Type Foundry, and which was
ied to stamp a seal on the neck OF
e bottle of poisoned ale The descrip
on also corresponds with that fur A
shed by Fred Buchanan. who receiv the
the package of ale at a local ex mis-
ess Office the day it was shipped tC mat
e Wilson. peri
The success OF the police in tracing is
is man convinces them that they that
We been just ten days behind time il Feb
king up the right trail in the mat lard
p and they will continue in -theh now
orts to trace the supposed murderer Abo
Boston. whence a second letter was load
.eived by the coroner from the sup grou
5ed murderer.