The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-06
ARREST SUSPECT
 IN POISON CASE Foreman in Ladies Home Jour nal Plant Locked Up Be-
 cause of Suspicious Cir cumstances.
NO DIRECT CHARGE MADE
Man Is Printer, Answers Dcscrip- ton of Murderer and Wife Died on Day of Doctors
 Murder.

Philadelphia, July 5,--Frederick Gies, foreman of department In the press rooms of the Curtis Publishing company of this city, was taken into custody tonight by the police as suspect in connection with the mur- der of Dr. William II. Wilson who died on June 26, after drinking q bottle of poisoned ale which had beeen sent to him through local express office. A direct charge has not been preferred against Gies, who denies any knowledge of the murder but in their investigation of the crime the police authorities find circumstances in the life of Gies and his family that tallied so closely with the marked points and incidents in the history of the Wilson murder, that they felt bound to act In seeking for the murderer they looked for a man who desired to avenge the death of his wife, who died under the treatment of pr. Wilson They learned that Gies' wife died re- gently and, according to Edward Haas, a fellow employe of Gies, at whose home Mrs. Gies died, she had been at tended by Dr. Wilson. Just what the cause of death was Is not certain because of complications which pre- sented themselves. In fact there are several stories regarding this matter, and if the information secured by the police Is correct some means was used to throw the authorities off the trial in an effort to hide the true cause and time of death.
 s On the day that Dr. Wilson re- ceived from the murderer a decoy let ter in which 1t was stated that a bot tie of sample ale was being sent to him, ostensibly from the brewery of Peter Schemm X Son, notice of the death of Mrs Gies, whose full name was Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Alexander Gies, appeared in the Philadelphia newspapers. She was buried from the home of her brother-in-law William C. Patterson, in West Philadelphia on that date.
 Death notices stated that she had died on June 19 and Thomas Graham the undertaken who inferred the body, declared that death occurred on that day and that the cause as he under stood was Brights disease If this was the case it would eliminate Gies as possible suspect, because the murderer Is known to have purchased two initial letters at the Keystone Type Foundry on June b which he called for couple of days later and which were subse- quently used to stamp the seals on the bottle of poisoned ale But the police Rllege that Haas told them that Mrs Qks died at his home on June 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 sine did. subsequently, turning it over to Graham. Mrs. El- liott regarding the date of death told the police that it was early in June, she , would not declare positively that 1t was June, but said 1t was certainly long before June 19, In addition to this 1t Is alleged she told the police that on June 9th che was called upon to bury an infant child of Mrs. Gies. Back of this story of the incidents which could inspire a crime such as the Wilson in which the physician, according to letters received by the coroner, was Killed because of his il- legal practice. is a tangled story of a secret marriage.
 Mrs. Gies, it was learned had been employed as a proof reader with the Curtis Publishing company and subse- quently became teacher In the public