Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-03
ON TRAIL
 OF SLAYER
Police Believe They Know
 POisOner.
HAVE MANS DESCRIPTION

Express Company Employee Tells of
 Receiving Box Containing Fatal Bot
 tie of Ale For Transmission to Dr.
 Wilson = Three Letters Figure In
 Philadelphia Case-Physieian's Entry
 Book to Be Destroyed by District At
 torney-Details of Dead Mans Ca
 reer Revealed.
 Philadelphia, July 3.-After six days of baffling clews the coroners, detec- tives and the police are sure they are on the trail Of the murderer of pr. William H. Wilson. poisoned by bot tie of ale sent to him. It is a true lead, and perhaps today may see the physicians slayer under arrest and the mystery surrounding this crime laid bare.
 The murderer Is a man about forty years old, and the authorities have such good description of him that when 1t is coupled with the history of Wilson's past, much more of which came to light, it should be an easy matter to fix his identity and effect his capture.
 The bottle containing poison which Wilson drank was delivered to his res idence from the office of the Philadel- phia local express company. The pack age was received at the office by Fred Buckman. BuckEan, who is now in Atlantic City. describes this man as being about thirty-five or forty years old. He was smooth shaven, of dark complexion, well dressed and wore derby hat. Buckman says the man came into the express office about 8 o'clock and placed on the counter the package, which he describes as large enough to have contained pint bot tie. It was apparently a bottle in- closed in regular pasteboard carton, and the ends looked as though the cover had been glued together On one side was Dr. Wilson's name and ad- dress, which was written in black ink. Buckman says the man desEed to pay for the delivery of the package in ad- vance and paid % cents. Buckman did not know the man, but says he would know him again if he saw him.
 Two Letters In Case.
 On the heels of the discovery of this lead to the murderer it became known that beside the forged circular letter of the brewing company which was received at the Wilson home on Mon- day, June 2, advising the doctor that the ale was to he sent there are two other letters which figure most impor- tantly in the case. The first of these was received by the police on the day following the poisoning. It was post ed at Bristol, Pa, and in substance said:
 T am printer. I killed Wilson be- cause he was menace to society. He poisoned my wife and child. That Is why I killed him. He bad no right to live. The world is we'll rid of him."
 This letter was typewriter, as was the other letter, and the second, which was received from Boston on Tuesday. This second letter said that the author was writing to explain that robbery had not been the motive for his crime as he feared might be sus- peeted from the fact that the night Wilson drank the poisoned ale some body who had entered his house had stolen the physicians diamond stud. The letter writer said he had seen c report of the theft in the newspapers.
 Doctors Book to Be Destroyed.
 Another sensation was the seques- tration of the doctors main entry book by the district attorneys office. This book contains names of women moy- ing in the highest and most respected circles in Philadelphia and New York. The book is a perfect powder maga- zine of scandal. The district attorney will retain it only as long as necessary and will then see to it's destruction.
 New and curious details of Wilson's life were revealed. His name was not Wilson. but William Freihoff. It is al- legged that he was a bigamist. He has a son in the regular army in the Phil. ippines He had been an actor and managed troupe in Pittsburg By a Es E. ah. Ia. k.t