The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-12
Salvation Army LaSSie
Uses Poison and Iron
Bar on Office.
w. E. HICKS APPEALS TO
POLICE FROM NEMESIS
In Letter Breathing Passion She
Threatens to Shoot Him
on Sight.
"Y0U DON'T LOVE NE,
so YOU MUST DIE"
Knocks Man Unconscious I'M
Park and Puts Narcotic iE
His Coffee.

Willis z. Hicks, Newark officer in
the Salvation Army, who livs at 90
Central avenue, applied to police head
quarters today for protection from a
girl also of the Salvation Army, who,
he said, had twice tried to kill him and
from whom he said he had just re-
ceived a letter threatening to shoot
him and kill herself.
The application of Hicks and the let
ter he had received cleared an assault
which had been mystery for six years.
Hicks, who works in a machine shop.
was passing through Branch Brook
Park one night six years ago when
some one ran up behind him and hit
him such a severe blow on the head
that he remained unconscious on his
back until daylight, when he was found
ard sent to the hospital. The crime was
then attributed to robbers, but now the
girl. in the letter Hicks says she wrote
to him, declares that she. crept up behind
him in the park and hit him with an
iron bar,
On another occasion when Hicks was
very i'll for several days the doctors
seid he had eaten something that did
not agree with him. But in the alleged
letter 10 Hicks, the girl says that
he was made Ill by poison she had
placed in his coffee.
Hicks Greatly Frightened.
Hicks was apparently frightened
when he reached headquarters today
and presented the following letter to
Captain Carroll, of the detective bu-
reau
Il thought / would write you letter
to tell you something You will remem-
Der well your time is short, l tell you
now, for'I cannot stand it any longer.
l love you and you don't love me. You
turned me down in Nassau street when
came to live with you and your wife
Well since then l tried to kill you one
night l hit you on the head with an iron
bar thought you were dead in the park
but you lived Next time will shoot you
in the head. / once put poison in your
coffee; you were sick, but did not die
Next time / will shoot you in the head.
am mad at the Salvation Army. I
iOfC Soo oIo SOu do iiOl lONC 1lt. NOW
it is time / am dead and you are dead
too You don't love me and you must
die
The letter was signed with bleeding
heart pierced by an arrow Hicks said
it was i'm the girls handwriting and
submitted other signed notes from her
for comparison.
Hicks and Lis nemesis Joined the
Col io,, ;rrl,4 a,-e
ago. when she was II years old. She
fell desperately in love with him, he
says, and when, six years ago he mar
ried another girl, she seemed despond-
ent, and at times desperate. He felt
sorry for her, and he and his wife took
her to live with them in Nassau street,
but her infatuation for the head of the
house was so great that the young wife
put her out
Declares He spurned Her.
Since then Hicks says he has seen
her frequently and that she always
professed the greatest love for him, but
that he consistently spurned her. Not
until he received the letter today did
he even suspect thar it had been a
woman who had felled him with blow
in the park. nor that when he had been
ill he was the victim of poison.
detective was detailed to accom-
pany Hicks in an effort to find the girl
as much as to protect him. Hicks did
not know where she. was living, but
thought she could be found through the
Salvation Army.
Mrs. Hicks, who is living with her
husband at SO Central avenue, said to-
day that after they were married they
took the girl, to whom she said her
husband had been engaged before. to
live with them, but that they had to
ask her TO leave, as they feared her.
''She- threatened to kill me several
times,' said Mrs. Hicks, "and when
ever we had any words she would say:
We'll, you know l can kill you any
time | want to-
"She was very much in love with
my husband and made so much trouble
that we had to put her out"