Bisbee daily review., 1909-12-21
Ill HEALTH MAY
STOP LAWS
COURSE
Woman Charged with Most
Sensational Murder Aitef
Long Tenn In Jail Falls
Victim to Consumption

STOCKTON. Cal. Dec. 2O.-Though
her second trial IS SCI 10 begin a few
weeks hence. it nov appears to be a
matter OF doubt whether Mrs. Emma
lie Doax, convicted Of one Of the most
sensational murders ever committed
in California, win ever agala have to
face a judge aad jury During the
four years she has spent in Jail. q
part of the time under sentence OF
death, the woman has been gradually
fealing in health and now appears to
be in the last stages OF consumption.
In view of tbs fact it is more th&n
likely that when her case is called
the first week in February the trial
win be Indefinitely postponed.
At the tine of her first trial Mrs.
lie Doux was but thirty-tyo years Of
age and possessed OF more than or
dinaTy good looks. Bora and reared
a the foothills OF the Sierras, she de-
yelOpad early into comely womanhOod
and had many admirers. At IS she
married Charles Barret, whom she di-
vorced four years later to marry VIII
liam Williams, with whom she went
to Arizona. living with him six years.
Williams died, and three years later
she married Albert McVicar. After
two years they separated. and the
woman, claiming to believe that Nc
Vicar was dead, married Eugene lie
Doux. q playmate OF her childhood
The murder OF McNicar, her third
husband, was the crime for which
Mrs. Le Doux was tried convicted and
sentenced TO death. On the evening
% March e. 1906. the body of Nc
Vicar was found crushed into q trunl;
left on the platform at the Southern
Pacific depot in this city. The sterch
attracted the railroad men after the
trunk was placed in the baggage
room. An Investigation disclosed
the body, aad the following day an
/ expressman gaye a description OF the
woman who employed him to move
/ the trunk 70 the depot She was Mrs.
lie Doux, whom McVicar had claimed
| as his rightful wife after she had sep
arated from him and married again.
She was traced to San Francisco.
Z aud on March 26 was arrested at An
tioch and brought to Stockton. She
admitted buying the trunk and rope
| ;ssed around the receptacle. but claim
( ed that a mysterious Joe Miller had
! at tbe point Of q pistol compelled he
I to purchase the trunk and rope afte.
I he and McVicar had retGrned from g
drinking bout Miller was never To-
Gated but ice Healey. who met Mrs.
lie Doux az the Royal House in San
/ Francisco was brought into the case
\ but later released.
( The trial OF Mrs lie Doux lasted
/ fifteen days and proved most sense
tional throughout. Tie theory 0f the
prosecution was that Mrs. Ise Dodz
finding McVicar the only obstacle IN
1 the way Of her o-yn peace. had enticed
/ MIN from jamestown. where he hld
! been working. and after Inducing him
/ to drink heavily had KILLED him BY
/ administering morphine in his coffee
/ Even after her cOnyictiCn there
{ Uere many persons who con iBued q
DOUBT whether the wCmGn had actual
! iy committed murder But t1erc was
no doubt thatit was she WHO had pu~
chased the trunk and ua6ert cGk tc
! conceal the crime by havjr= The Tod
! shipped IN the trunk to Iha nirin2
district where the hunized5 Of OF
shafts and prospe,t holes would have
furnished a safe disposal - he g.,a
some relic.
During her long imprisoarlcnt thc
woman has maintained silence even ID
her attorney +, and her mother. rafus
ing to discuss the case b Tn11 cer
tain points, which has I'D -1lny 70 be
iieve that she mav have rera should
ering a responsibility not her oWr
when she undertook t. conceal the
murder by disposins Of the body
The convicted murteress has never
/ for a moment seemed t. doubt thai
she would eventually escape the ga!
lows. From the time Of her s-rest
she has been a plzzlc 20 jai'ers and
al others who have come in contact
with her. Her nerve has been thai
Of the strongest man. though bodily
sho has been steadily wasting away
She never broke dowa. even under
| TIE most savere strata and al ths
1 deyiees ct the prosecution to sacurt
( a confession froFU her were in vain
Wher brought before Judge w 2
4 Nctter recently 10 have the date SCI
for her Gecond trial the wo,ran 40
lGeare3 20 he but shadow Of her To-
is,a- sell. but hey iron nerve was stii
4 sppsrent L is probable. however
Uniess her condition iu,nroves sht
nay 1eTer be called upo9 70 q