The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-03

Mrs. Wilhelm sent to her homo Mon
day night with message TO Wilhelm
that led to the discovery OF the muir
der Returning, the child told Mrs
Wilhelm that there had been no re-
Spouse to her repeated ringing OF the
Wilhelm door bell and that she feared
Mr.. Wilhelm. II at home. must be Ill.
Than 1t was that Mrs. Wilhelm hurried
home 70 find her husbands dead body,
An Evening World reporter sought 10
draw from MI and Mrs. Farmer and
their little girl more facts bearing on
Mrs Wiihelm's visit to them, but they
declined to discuss the case, saying the
police had ordered them to remain 81
lent.
IT has lust come to light that SiCa had
been ass!duously counting three other
women al the time OF his affair with
Mrs. Wilhelm. Many letters containing
burning passages were found among his
effects by the police and all indicate he
had promised to marry each OF his three
correspondents.
Siea In Dungeon,
Sica Is alone In The hole" This
means that lie Is occupying a dungeon
ten feet beneath Police Headquarters in
the City Hall and Headquarters them.
selves are below the street level.
The most hardened criminal we ever
had before U.S." one OF the detectives
working on the case said this morning,
could not withstand the terrors Of the
hole, and without A single exception
have broken down and confessed or else
given us information we knew they had
been Withholding"
SO certain are the police Sica fired
the fatal shot that all other suspects
have been eliminated from the case
and their efforts are being directed
towards making Sica tell the where.
abouts Of the pistol with which VII.
helm was killed.
Several times this morning the sus-
pected man has been visited In hts
dungeon by Captain OF Detectives Will
lam Carroll and Detective Tulte, and
In each case. lutte who Is administer.
Ing the third degree. bluntly demanded
that sica reveal the hiding place OF the
pistol
Emerging from the dungeon shortly
before noon, TuIte exclaimed Il know
whore the gun Is and | will have II in
an hour"
Five minutes later Detective Horter.
who also is detailed on the case, hur-
riedly left Headquarters, following a
whispered conference with Carroll ard
Tui,e.
Meanwhile Mrs Wilhelm Is occupying
A cell remotely removed from that OF
Slca, and there she spent the long hours
OF the night and forenoon In a violent
At Of weeping her grief in no way being
assuaged by tho visit OF her attorney.
Edward s. Black.
Slca bases all his hopes, the police
say. on the alIbi lie sought to establish,
but this they claim they have already
punctured and expect To have no ak
hculty In making him further contra
diet himself when the proper tine
comes.
The love affair between SIca and Mrs.
Wilhelm, II is said, has been conducted
so openly and unblusn ngly that one Of
Mrs, Wilhe'm's neIsh5ors said to-day,
1T IL u wonder to me Wilhelm Id not
shoot Sira long ago"
White Mrs. Wilhelm sat weeping In
her cell at Police Headquarters her
aged and feeble mother who arrived In
Newark ycs,cr.lay from Philadelphia
was pacing the floor ~ the Wilhelm
home wriusIns her hands and crying
out In the agony Of her despair ST."
Is Mrs Anna $ STAFFORD, srNcuty-rpur
years olt. who cgmc to this coUulry
from Cheshire. England, utuut twenty
years ago,
Admitting she had Ions known that
Sca was INF .uatol with her daughter
Mrs stafford aa!d she had paid no g
ten,Ioa to this, for the reason that
Wilhelm had told her all about v laugh