Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
ANOTHER WIFE At BIER
Deserted by Wilhelm Twelve
Years Ago, She Says.
THIRD WIDOW, PERHAPS
Woman Suspected of Murder Knew
of Former Marriage.
SICA C0NSULTS A LAWYER
Has Not Lost Nerve-Makes No
Complaint-Alibi Perfect,
Declares Counsel.
;ICA CONSULTS A LAWYER

| NEW YORK, February 1.-THE latest
chapter in the Wilhelm murder mystery
at Newark introduces new character
and unique situation
The body Of the murdered man was re-
moved yesterday from the morgue to his
late home on High street, where prepare
tons were made for the funeral n
few minutes before the services were be-
gun two middle-aged women dressed in
black asked permission to see the dead
mans face.
! One Of these women positively identified
the body as that of her husband who had
deserted her twelve years ago. She said
she is Mrs Frank Wilhelm, of 227 East
SID street, Manhattan. and that she has
two children at home. OF whom the muir
dered man was the father. The woman
who accompanied her, she said, was her
sister, who also identified the face.
The Rev. f. E. Ferriss of ST. Pauls
| Episcopal Church, who had been asked to
| conduct the funeral services, was pres
ent when the identification was made.
After the excitement had subsidized some
what he read the burial service.
| The Mrs Wilhelm who was locked up
on suspicion after the killing was not
permitted to be present. but remained in
her cell at police headquarters throughout
|
Mrs. Anna Stafford. of Philadelphia, and
| her two sisters were at the funeral and
remained in charge of the house
| Mrs. Frank Wilhelm of Manhattan and
her sister talked OF claiming the body but
left without creating disturbance. me
only other funeral guest was Mrs. Sarah
| Dillon, of Manhattan, at whose house
Sica and the latest Mrs. Wilhelm were in
| the habit of calling when they came to
town.
Second Wife Is Not Worried.
The fact that another woman had
claimed the dead man as her husband
did not seem to worry the Newark wife
when the news was carried to her cell.
| 1t was ten years ago. she said, that she
| married Wilhelm in Boston. and they had
always lived together since. She had
heard he had been married before she
met him.
she was married in Jersey City November
| "a, 1884, by the Rev. Paul Emil X. Meury,
pastor OF the Second Reformed Church.
Her husband for a time ran a restaurant
at JOG East Hautson street.
We lived happily for time said
| this Manhattan wife, land two children
were born to My daughter was about
| a year old and my son ten weeks Old
| when my husband deserted me.
The morning Wilhelm ran away he had
500 in cash in his pocket. He gave me $50
| to pay the rent. Then he kissed me and
the babies goodbye and said he would
be back at I o'clock that night. That
was twelve years ago.
l haven't laid eyes on him since until
l saw him today in his coffin.
I'VE have his picture In the house and
ii has often been shown to the children
as the likeness of their father. When
my boy read of the murder of Frank
Wilhelm and saw the picture of the dead
man he thought he recognized 1t as that
| of his father.
There was a striking resemblance in
the pictures. | was not convinced until
l saw the face in the coffin.
Heard of Still Another Wife.
while / knew my husband as Frank
Wilhelm and was married to him under
! that name, learned later that his real
name was Wilhelm Zuendorf and that
/ he had an old mother. Katrina Zuen
dorf living in Heidelberg, Germany. l
also learned that he had wife in Kan
sas City before he married me.
| He evidently had told his friends in
the west that he was going back to
| Heidelberg because he got several letters
| from that city which had been sent there
in care of his mother from ST. Louis,
Chicago and Kansas City.
| only a few weeks before he deserted
me he brought to the house a brazen
young woman whom he introduced as
his stepsister. She lived with us a short
| time and then l ordered her out.
| 1T was afterward reported to me that
he had introduced the stepsister else
| where as his wife. / believe they went
to live together after he deserted me.
1t is peculiar thing. but last Tuesday
night, for the first time since Wilhelm
left me. 1 dreamed about him. He APP
peared to me in my dream just as l had
known him, except that he was dressed
in black and wore long black tie. 1t
showed me his fathers picture in the
newspaper"
Claim Sica Has an Alibi.
Eugene Dotto, a Newark lawyer, who
has been engaged by fellow lodge men,
bers of Sica to defend him, got an order
from Chief Justice Gummere yesterday
directing the police to permit him to
talk with his client. After long inter-
view Dotto said that Sica had perfect
1 aibi. and that lie would be able to prove
that Anna Saltau, the nurse girl, was
mistaken when she claimed to have seen
him in front of the Wilhelm house at 9
o'clock on the evening of the murder
| Anna remains firm in her testimony.
| however. She says she cannot be mis-
taken either as to the man. the time or
the place.
Reports that Sica is weakening as a
| result of his experiences with the police
are without foundation. When taken to
the morgue Wednesday night he gazed
upon the face of the murdered man with
out tremor.
| He answered all questions put to him
by the detectives deliberately. He has
not once complained because he has been
| deprived of his liberty.
The only time he seemed at all ruffled
was when confronted by Anna Saltau and
identified as the man she saw the night
of the murder. Now that Sica Is in COM
municatfon with his friends through Law
Yer DOttO there is little chance of his