The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-12-20
CALIFORNIA WOMAN AGAIN
FACES TRIAL FOR MURDER
Opinion Prevails, However, that Mrs.
Emma leDoux Will Not Live
Very Long as She is Fast
Failing in Health.

stockton, Cal, Dec. 20.-Though her
second trial is set to begin q few
weeks hence, II now appears to be a
matter of doubt whether Mrs. Emma
lie Doux, convicted OF one of the most
sensational murders ever committed
In California, will ever again have to
face a judge and jury. During the
four years she has spent in Jail, part
OF the time under sentence of death,
the woman has been gradually falling
In health and now appears to be in the
last stages of consumption. In view Of
this fact ii is more than likely that
when her case is called the first week
in February the trial will be indef-
nitely postponed.
At the time of her first trial Mrs
lie Doux was but thirty-two years of
age and possessed of more than or
dinary good looks. Born and reared
in the foothills of the Sierras, she de-
veloped early into comely womanhood
and had many admirers. At IS she
married Charles Barret, whom she di-
vorced four years later to marry Will
liam Williams, with whom she went
to Arizona, living there with him six
years. Williams died, and three years
later she married Albert McVicar. Az
ter two years they separated, and the
woman claiming to believe that Nc
Vicar had died, married Eugene lie
Doux, a playmate of her childhood
Of irI
husband, was the crime for which
Mrs. lie Doux was tried, convicted
and sentenced to death. on the even
ing of March "a, 1906, the body of
McVicar was found crushed into a.
trunk left on the platform at the
Southern Pacific depot in this city.
The stencil attracted the railroad men
after the trunk was placed in the bag
gage room. An investigation disclos- !
ed the remains, and the following day |
an expressman gave a description of |
the woman who employed him to
move the trunk to the depot. She
was Mrs. lie Doux, whom McVicar had |
claimed as his rightful wife after she
lad separated from him and married |
again.
She was traced TO San Francisco.
md on March rs was arrested at An
ioch and brought to Stockton. She
buying the trunk and rope |
ised around the receptacle, but claim
ID that mysterious Joe Miller had
t the point of pistol compelled her
nhac hA |
he and McVicar had returned from a
bout. Miller was never To-
ated. but Joe Healey, who met Mrs.
4e Doux at the Royal House in San
was brought into the case
ut later released. T.
The trial of Mrs. lie Doux lasted
fteen days and proved most sensa-
lonal throughout. The theory of the
rosecution was that Mrs. lie Doux,
nding McVicar the only obstacle in
he way of her own peace, had en-
Iced him away from jamestown,
here he had been working and af-.
er inducing him to drink heavily had
illed him by administering morphine
his coffee.
The convicted murderess has never /,
,r moment seemed to doubt that
ne would eventually escape the gal
'ws. From the time of her arrest she
as been puzzle to jailers and all
hers who have come in contact with
er. Her nerve has been that of the :
rongest man, though bodily she has
zen steadily wasting away. She
ever broke down. even under the :,
ost severe strain, and all the devices :,
the prosecution to secure a con- :,
ssion from her were in vain.
When brought before Judge w. B. =
utter recently to have the date set :
r her second hearing the woman
,peared to be but shadow of her
rmer self, but her iron nerve was
i'll apparent 1t is probable, however, 6
Hess her condition improves, she :,
ay never be called upon to go :,
rough the ordeal of another trial. -