The Irish standard., 1910-04-02
:CLEW! TO ..P0lS0NIER.
CHICAGO POLICE TRACE PERSON
7. WHO BOUGHT POISON THAT
SLEW MOODY.
WARRANTS ARE OUT FOR TWO
Important Disclosures Made In In.
qulry Into Death Of Pie Baker
Stories Of Discussions In the Fam.
lily Add to the Mystery.

StorleS OF OlsSen6ion0 IN the Fam.
lily Add to the Mystery.
Chicago, Mar. 30.-Discovery by Cor.
oner Peter nj. Hoffman of the identity
of the person who. purchased the
arsenic with which Alexander J.
Moody. secretary of the Moody & Wa
tiers Company, and relative by mar
riage of Congressman William j.
Monkey, was murdered in his home.
210H South Seeley avenue, on Febru-
airy 20. is the latest development in
the most battling murder mystery that
has engaged the attention of the po-
lice for years.
This came out simultaneously with
the disclosure of domestic relations in
the home Of the slain man that add to
the mystery Of his death and from
which the detectives hope to find the
connecting links in the chain of evil
dence they are putting together.
Warrants Out for Arrest.
Following the discovery of the iden-
tity Of the arsenic buyer, the most i'm
portant clew that has been obtained
since the death of the pie manufac-
turer more than a month ago, war
rants for the arrest of man and
woman We're obtained at the direction
of the coroner.
The warrants, 1t Is known, have
been withheld in the hope that the
persons named in them would take
some action that would betray their
connection and forge the missing link
In the chain Of circumstantial evil
dence that has been woven about
them by the score of detectives that
have logged their footsteps incessant-
ly since the night of the murder.
In addition to the identity of the
purchaser of the drug the coroners
detectives have facsimile of the sig
nature that the poison buyer wrote on
the drug store records. This. the cor
oner believes. will prove one of the
most valuable clews that can be oh.
tanned.
Conference In Coroner's Office.
Coroner Hoffman, Assistant Chief
Schuettler and six of the detectives
who have had Mrs. Moody, widow Of
the slain man, and Peter Peterson,
Alias Reilly, coachman for the Moodys,
under surveillance, held long con-
ference In the office of the coroner.
Attaches of the coroner's office would
not admit that the valuable clews had
been procured, but neither would they
deny It.
The conference of the coroner and
police officials was held behind locked
doors and no one was permitted to ap.
proach close enough to the room to
hear the conversation. The adyisa.
bility Of making immediate arrests is
said, however, to be the subject under
discussion.
The name of the druggist who sold
the arsenic is being jealously guard
ed by all connected with the case,
but 1t was learned the apothecary is
positive that he can identify the per-
son to whom the arsenic was sold.
~ DIssension In Moody Family.
Detectives have unearthed episodes
in the life of the Moodys that constitute
strange tale of dissension in the
| Moody household dating back more
than Is years, and have learned that
the first serious trouble between Mr..
and Mrs. Moody came with Moody's
marked attentions to strikingly
pretty blonde stenographer on the
West side.
The married life of the Moodys, the
officers say, was not happy The off,
GERS say that the family OF Alexander
Moody has always regarded his mar
riage to Annie Olson as something of
mesalliance. She was working in
the Moody pie factory at the time of
her marriage rs years ago.
The friends of Mrs. Moody told the
police that Alexander Moody was no
model of marital fidelity. and name
the instance of where Mrs. Moody
discovered that her husband had been
more than devoted to his stenog-
rapher. 81,
Peterson In Complete Denial.
Peterson, who is at the White
Front hotel in St. Charles, denied all
knowledge Of the manner in which Mr..
Moody met his death February 20.
They've got two detectives out
here following me around" said Pc
terson, but don't know what for.
There isn't any reason for them to
trail me. because I'll not run away.
I'm still working for the Moody family
and before, this thing came up l had
planned to go to Pistakee bay April
l. to open the Moody summer home"