Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-07
GOOD CASE FOR GEES.
Evidence Against Philadel-
 phia Suspect Weak.
HELD FOR WEES DEATH.

Man Alleged to Have Sent Poison to
 Dr. Wilson Arraisned on Charge of
 Being Accessory to Cause of Young
 Woman's Taking off-He is Be-
 Iieved to Be Able to Prove Alibi In
 Regard to Other Charge.
 Philadelphia, July '. - Though the police pretend to believe that Freder- lck Gies, Jr., arrested as a suspect in the case, knows something about the murder of Dr. William H. Wilson of this city, who died on June 26 after drinking a bottle of ale containing cyanide of potassium, developments tend to show that the authorities have blundered in the matter and that Gies finds himself in his embarrassing po- sition as the result of his efforts to protect the name of his young wife.
 Gies was arraigned today for a hearing on the charge of being an ac- cessory in the death of his wife.
 The records at the bureau of health show that Mrs. Gies died on June 19 and that her infant babe died the day previous. To connect Gies with the sending of poisonous ale to Dr. Will son the authorities will have to as- sume that Gies knew four days be- fore that time that his wife was going to die, for on June b the man who ha al Tn lr WflCnn purchased from William Olmstead at the Keystone Type foundry a letter "S'' from font of type known as "Stuyvesant' and which letter was used as a seal stamp by the murderer who prepared the bottle of ale sent to the physician. That Gies did not pur- chase this letter IS" seems certain, for Olmstead failed to identify him at police headquarters as the customer who ordered the type.
 Could Not Have Sent Letter.
 More than this, Gies was at his place of employment on Saturday morning, June 27, or the day after pr. Wilson died.
 It was on this day that letter was mailed to Coroner Jermon from Bris- tol. Pa, in which the supposed mur- derer told why he had sent the poison. This letter was mailed during the aft ernoon, and in their efforts to trace the movements of the writer of the letter the police ascertained that the supposed murderer reached Bristol, Pa, at 1247 p. m. The train left Torresdale at 12:35. Superintendent John B. Williams of the Curtis Pub fishing company, where Gies was em- ployed as foreman of the overlay de- partment, says that Gies left the of ice between 11:30 and 11,45 a. ID. on that day, and it would have been i'm possible for him to have reached Tor resdale, which is a suburban point more than an hours ride from the center of the city, in time to purchase a ticket and catch the train for New York. NIT. Williams also says that he does not think Gies capable of con- ceiving such a clever plan to kill any one and that he could not have car ried it into effect without assistance.
 Fred Buckman, the express clerk who received from the supposed mur- derer the package which contained the poisoned ale sent to Dr. Wilson. received a letter in which he is ad- vised to go slow in attempting to iden- tify any one as the person who sent the bottle of ale. The outcome of the Wilson case seems likely to de- pend very largely upon your testi- mony." says the writer. "and hope you will go very slow indeed in iden- tifying anybody fin the matter.
 Tt would be awful to send any one to the gallows for putting such man as Wilson out oS business"
 Buckman confronted Gies at the city hall. but refused to positively identify the prisoner as the man who left the package of ale at the express nfRrn