The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-07-10
SleuthS Now Guard Their Own
Movements ZealOusly
INQUEST ON FOR TO-DAY
May Furnish New Clue to Police in Eff
forts to Run Down Murderer Of DR..
Wilson--Sudden Disappearance
of Detectives.

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suspect in the Wilson case, for whom
the police OF this city have been search
ing in New Jersey, has not been found.
More than that, she is the sister OF a
woman who died recently, and was said
to have been treated by DIR. Wilson,
little is known Of the woman. The po.
lice still have hopes OF connecting her
with the case.
The inquest to-day into the death OF
Dr. Wilson may bring forth disclosures
in the case that have not yet been fore.
Swallowed The best indication OF such a
possibility Is the way in which the
detectives now working on The case have,
so TO speak, gone underground and left
the public guessing as TO what was going
on.
Twenty.one persons have been sub
poenaed to attend the inquest. Frank
Paul, the coroncrs detective, spent sew.
eral hours yesterday serving them. Mrs.
Wilson's subpoena was left at the office
of +. J. Namely, her counsel. who as
sured the detective that the physicians
widow would be present
Ii there is any new information in
the puzzIing Wilson case, it has thus far
been kept secret. The absence of the
detectives assigned to the ease is the
only outward sign that they have not
given it up. Their whereabouts is not
known, and il looks as ii it would take
detective to find them. The supposi.
tion is that they have been sent to run
down clues outside OF Philadelphia. The
return of some of them is expected be-
fore the inquest, but there is nothing
to indicate whether they will come back
empty handed or holding possible key
to the solution OF the Wilson prisoners
identity.
The police have gained as they went
deeper and deeper into the case greater
respect for the abilities OF the murderer.
or, as seems likely, the murderess. 1t
has been pointed out that the deed. if
committed by one person unaidcd. de-
manded the knowledge Of a surprising
number OF diverse matters. 1t took
mastery Of teh typewriter to turn out
the neat business letter that WAS first
sent TO DR.. Wilson to advise him of the
shipment of ale. 1t took some under
standing OF the proceedings OF business
houses in advertising among physicians
to know that it was usual for them
to send physicians samples gratis TOR
home consumption 1t was no easy
printers job to print the initial letter
-" properly on the false cap ot the
ale bottle, But above all. the use Of
prussic acid required no little chemical
information and skill in handling. Its
purchase would be impossible for anyone
who did not know its uses and the Gus.
toms Of druggists in dealing in poisons
well enough to invent some fair pretext
for obtaining considerable quantity OF
the deadly drug
II is hard TO see, they say, how any
one could have purchased a sufficient
quantity Of prussic acid without forging
q physicians prescription as the com
pound is the most deadly knoan, ont.
side OF the rarer alkaloids. 10 have
made it would have been impossible
for the poisoner. without apparatus and
much chemical learning.
When it is considered that the poison
once procured had to be put into the
ale bottles, and that these had to be
recorked in such manner as not to
appear to have been opened, and packed
50 as to appear TO have been done mp in
a packing department il il possible 60
see that the roundabout manoeuIes, of
the poisoner required the skin df #hrly
a dozen different kinds of labor, and
must if carried on bysa single person
only have succeeded after numerous
trials.