The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-02

Sica confirmed these statements and
went further in his statements to the
police But Detective Tuite said he
was not ready to make public Sica 5
whereabouts late yesterday evening
and last night
The police said that they were of
the opinion that there was a stormy
scene in the Wilhelm home at o'clock
YESTERDAY afternoon between Wilhelm.
his wife and Sica Following that the
police believe that the man who killed
Wilhelm secreted himself in the base
ment of the house until an opportune
time arrived and then committed the
crime.
woman in Red Appears.
! The arrest and detention of Mrs.
Wilhelm and the man who was named
with her in a divorce suit followed the
strange visit to police headquarters OF
/ woman dressed all in red describing
herself as Mrs. Dillon. of New York.
She went to police headquarters to in
quire the address of the Wilhelm home.
saving that she was a friend of the
family and had read of the murder in
/ the New York morning papers. She
wanted TO know If she could be of some
service TO Mrs Wilhelm.
{ Mrs Dillon was detained Al police
headquarters until she had told about
the divorce troubles between the VII
helms and of the star boarder. From
her it was learned that the divorce
i petition OF last November was begun
i through Attorney Edward S. Black and
was the elimination of at least -four
former threats to do so.
When she had told all this ana Mrs
Wilhelm and Sica had been brought
/ to police headquarters. Mrs. Dillon was
4 released and hurried back to New
York.
Sica Had Been Boarder.
/ Sca is a salesman for John B. Scar
/ lett, real estate dealer. of 110 Broad
/ street. He had been a roomer at the
/ Wilhelm home until recently. His
cousin. of the same name, of IL Wallace
/ street, said that he boarded with the
/ Wilhelms until last week.
Attorney Black said that he left the
+ house Just before Wilhelm filed his suit
for divorce In November. The cousin
said he knew that Sica and Mrs. Viii
+ helm were very close friends and that
he had expected trouble TO develop.
I'VE are quickly dissipating the
mystery in the case" said Captain
Carroll during an intermission in his
examination of the two women and
the man. Everything s coming out
very nicely.
Until the woman IN red dropped into
/ police headquarters to inquire the sd-
! dress of Contractor Wilhelm the police
were completely bafied by the mystery
which enshrouded the murder Of Will
+ helm
StilI some Suspicious.
The ouIy point which might cause
suspicion, aud which was calmly If
/ iuadequateIS expInincd by Mrs. VIII
helm, wns that she a5sented herself
from her husband and her home dur
+ ing the afternoon, took dinner with
strangers, leaving her husband at home
alone, and then had her friends nc-
company her 10 her home. when she
found her husbands murdered body.
Another point to cause suspicion was
that the door into the half basement
from High street which had been
always securely locked. because it was
the favorite place of appeal for tramps
mendicants, was left open yester-
day afternoon. 1t was at the rear of
the dark hallway leading from this
strangely opened door that the dead
body of the contractor was found.
One of the boarders in the house, who
had never used that door before, he
cause 1t was always locked, found it
open at o'clock last evening. To the
experienced detective many things
looked as though Wilhelm had fallen a
victim of well-planned and cleyerly
executed plot. But the woman in red
accidentally drops into police head