Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-21
CALIFORNIA WOMAN MAY
 ESCAPE SECOND HEARING
Emma Le Doux in Bad Health After Spending
 Four Years in Prison

STOCKTON, Cal, December 20 Tough her second trial is set to be. g.r H few weeks hence, it now appears be matter of doubt whether Mrs. F ma Le Doux, convicted of one of most sensational murders ever com n,'cd in California, will ever again l..r to face a judge and jury. Dur r- he four years she has spent in jail, a part of the time under sentence of s.th. the woman has been gradually n.Hug in health and now appears to h. in the last stages of consumption. In view of this fact it is more than likely that when her ease is called the fI-. week in February the trial will h. indefinitely postponed.
 \, the time of her first trial, Mrs, Le D..N was but thirty-twO years of age art possessed of more than ordinary aat looks. Born and reared in the f,.nIls of the Sierras, she developed ssf.. into comedy wOmanhoOd and had w,..v admirers. At l6 she married rr..Ics Barret, whom she divorced four vr.,s later to marry William Williams, o..n whom she went to Arizona, living -rr. with him six years. Williams r.. and three years later she married Albert McVicar. After two years they .,...lted and the woman, claiming to r...sc that McVicar had died, married Eugene Le DouX, a playmate of her Huhood. The murder of McVicar, her third husband, was the crime for which Mrs. Ia Doux was tried, convicted and sen ,ar.pi to death On the evening of March 24, 1906, the body of McNicar vs- found crushed into a trunk left .r -ne platform at the Southern Pacific rsr,f in this city. The stench attract .i rhe raihoad men after the trunk MAS placed in the baggage room. An .rva,tipation disclosed the remains, and ,bp following day an congressman gave description of the woman who employ a5 him to move the trunk to the depot. She was Mrs. Le DOuX, whom McNlear hal claimed was his rightful wife after ,b, had separated from him and mar r.eI again.
 Spo was traced to San Francisco, ,r5 on March 26 was arrested at An -io,+ and brought to Stockton. She
  r.ad ground the receptacle, but claimed that mysterious "JOe Miller had a- the point of a pistol compelled her |, ngrchase the trunk and rope after he .rI NcVicar had returned from a drinking bout. Miller was never To- -s,el but Joe Healey, who met Mrs. T4 D3ux at the Royal house in san Fysn..sco was brought into the ease but srrr released.
 The trial of Mrs. Le DOuX lasted sf.e.r days and proved most sensation al -1r,ughout. The theory of the pros -srrr.7 was that Mrs. Le DOux, finding W.Yirar the only obstacle in the way of nar own peace, had enueed nm sgav from Jamestown, where he had T bsar working, and after inducing him n d-.nk heavily had killed him by adj ~rra,tarinp morphine in his coffee.
 E,un after her conviction there were -.rv persons who continued to doubt rba.r.- the woman had actually com r.t..r the murder. But there was no doubt that it was she who had puf' .ha.oI the trunk and undertook to con
 real rnc crime by having the body ,1igrrI in the trunk to the mining dis urt. where the hundreds of old shattS and rro,Dect holes would have furnish
 eI a safe disposal of the gruesome relic
 During her long imprisonment the wo- man had maintained silence even to her attorney and her mother, refusing always to discuss the case beyond cer-
 tai3 points. which has led many to be- Feye that she may have been shoulder ng responsibility not her own when
 she undertook to conceal the murder by dlsrosing of the body.
 The convicted murderess has never for moment seemed to doubt that she youd eventually escape the gallows. From rhe time of her arrest she has been puzzle to jalers and all others Edo have come in contact with her. T Her nerve has been that of the strong est man, though bodily she has been steadily wasting away She never broke town. even under the most severe 1ran. and all the devices of the pros s.uIr to secure confession from her Iern l vain.
 W.rn brought before Judge w. B. Ngttur recently to have the date set hf .,r second trial, the woman ap' uesrrI .o be but shadow of her form p ,e.r but her iron nerve was still aP- parent 1t is probable, however, un' a, d.r condition improves, she may ,eyrr be called upon to go through the aiea. of another trial.