Evening journal., 1921-04-25
HAT ONLY CLUE
IN WILSON CASE
Continued from first page)


a Marke tstroet millinery dealer. was !
found along the Kennel pike by
Wilmington man who in an automo- 1
bile followed a large machine west
on the pike within an hour after /
Miss Wilson had been killed. The
local automobile owner who knew
nothing OF the case at that time was
following the car that contained sew
eral persons because OF the reckless |
manner it was being operated. This
man said afterwards he merely fol-
lowed the car in the belief that it
would be ditched along the roadway.
1t was raining at the time and the
huge car was swerving from side to
side Of the roadway.
After passing the DUPONT school,
the Wilmingtonian, who was trying
TO get close to the other car TO
learn the license number saw an
object fall from the car He then
stopped his machine and picked up
the woman's hat, that had evil
IDENTIFY blown from the other car. BY
that time the car he had been fol-
lowing had disappeared. on read
ing OF the case the following day.
ne turned the hat over to the State
authorities.
The hat worn by Mas Wilson at
the time she was killed as well as
hand purse she carried have never
been found. 1t is thought possibly
that the hat and purse fell into the
car that ran into her as she walked
along the pike. The hat that was
picked up in the road has been
shown to friends OF the dead wo-
man but they say it was not the one
worn by Miss Wilson.
Whether the driver OF this car
from which this hat fell or was
blown was the one who ran down
/ Miss Wilson is not known, but the
authorities cannot understand if he
was not why the driver did not stop
to recover a hat that had blown
from the head OF one OF the occu-
pants
The State authorities are being
aided in the work in the case by the
State highway police and the Will
mington police department. II was
said today that the highway police
have located man living along the
Kennett pike who left the Il. and o
! Railroad station at Delaware ave
nue. and DUPONT street at 7.45 o'clock
! the night Miss Wilson was killed
! This man rode west on the Kennett
pike and should have met the car
, that hit the young woman on the
, road between this city and the seen,
I Of the accident. No automobile wa
[ passed or seen by this driver from
7 the time ne crossed Scott street unit
d. q - hn 10
. and this fact has caused many q
4 think that the driver Of the cal
= turned to the left along the Kennel
q pike and came into this city by wa,
q Of the Brandywine creek road o
4, Park drive.
The Wilmington police have ruI
down two clues that appeared a
2 first to be good one during the pas
. few days but in both cases the driv
ers Of the cars as well as the occu
. pants have established an alibi an'
n convinced the police they know
@ nothing Of the case. One driver,
10 contractor living In Pennsylvani
e drove along the Kennett pike IN
10 night Miss Wilson was killed. n
- admitted having several women fl
his car and OF returning to his hom
a late that evening. lie as well a
< those in the car that night hav
Is proven that they were far from IN
D. scene. however. az the time Mis-
)f Wilson was run down.
~ During the past week the local pC
" lice also ran down clue which ir
'd volved two young business men
this city. These men with their con
1 panions. have proven that they wei
al not on the Kennett pike at the tim
n Miss Wilson was run down
~ The police, as wen as the sta
~ authorities are still at work on n
VI case. running down every clue tn,
'd receive.