The Washington times., 1929-05-01

.WIFE' S SECRET
|. LOVE CAUSED
KILLING
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although It mad been IN the posses
sion Of the talented radio instructog
and writer for seven months.
Text Of Letter
Following is the text Of the let
ter said ito have been written b.
Gene" to Mr.. Peacox:
my Dear Girl:
Here I am-back to the old
gang and old ways again. GER
tainly felt great when I stroIled
into the fraternity house Sunday
night and was pounced on and
yelled at and pounded on and
handshook.
"Day by day the bunch are
coming back, ana each one re.
quires q party of welcome, so
that things are right pretty.
Jas far as my girl friends are
concerned they are conspicuous
fby their absence-but that IL to
be expected.
Dear one, I enjoyed myself 80
much just seeing you and being
near you over the weekend. Let
me thank you and also compli-
ment you on your wonderful ar
rangements.
You do everything so neatly
and prettily. I noticed it, but I'm
afraid others don't appreciate 1t.
For a girl of your age you are
a wonderful little hostess and
home maker.
Asks 0 Favor
"After those compliments--will
you do me a favor? ] left my
pipe, tobacco pouch and pocket
comb somewhere around your
place. wonder IL you would go
to all the trouble of wrapping
them up and running out and
mailing them and all that just
for me-huh?
Please, dear, let me know If
and when you are coming down
here.
Dorothy, please do not expect
to hear from me often. ! DO
not think / should write much,
and also that you should destroy
these letters. You said you were
going to make the best Of things
between you two, and 1t would be
horrible il I were to cause any
more friction or trouble.
1T IL not wrong for me 70
stand off, as 1t were, and admire
you, and even love you-any more
would be wrong and not fair to
either Of you, at least II Il were
noticeable to e.
That's that.
"You will be glad to know,
think, that I have my fraternity
pin back. Right now 1t ID snug.
Cling against my heart-it was
30 lonesome. The other Betas mo-
ticed it also, but said nothing, o6
course.
eff you come down I want You
to meet them-the finest bunch
Of fellows you'll ever meet.
Here's the end of this letter,
dear-but time and distance will
not have the slightest effect on
my feelings toward you-remem-
Der that-and bye-bye.
He Was q Don Juan Too
But Peacox. too, essayed the role
of a dapper Don Juan, police said
as they placed Miss Francis New
man under arrest on a material wit
ness charge.
st still love Dorothy, even though
she be dead" Peacox cried in a
moment of remorse in his cell here
where he is held on a first degree
murder charge.
Meanwhile, Peacox enjoyed q
comfortable nights sleep in the
county Jail, his mind apparently
at ease. No qualmsF of conscience
disturbed his rest, jail officials
said.
Miss Newman is being held under
$4,000 bail while authorities check
up her story that although she
caressed Peacox in the same apart.
ment where he killed his wife, she
did not know the wife was dead and
did not suspect that stains on the
floor were blood stains, and, fur
ther, that the kerosene odor with
which the apartment reeked did not
arouse her suspicious.
Miss Newman, q slight, smiling
blonde and self-admitted inamorata
of the love-crazed husband, told
police that Peacox had planned tc
use her as an alibi-she not know
ing what the alibi really meant.
Peacock told her, she said, to tel
anybody who questioned her that
she had passed out" in q drinking
bout at his apartment the night
he carried the body of his wife from
the apartment and threw 1t In his
car, the crux Of the "alibi" being
police believe, to have possible
suspicion diverted from himself.
|. As He Planned 1t
Peacox, police say, planned Il
make it appear as though the large
bundle" he carried from the apart
ment was Miss Newman, sodder
with drink, and not, as was actual
ly the case. the still body Of his
bride.
Was Crime Student
Peaeox was a student of crimino
logy, and had spent many hours
pondering on the Perfect Crime
This was revealed by the presencs
in his personal effects of several
famous crime stories ana his writ
ten solutions Of unsolved murder
mysteries.
Newspaper clippings ef several
famous murder stories, among shen
the Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray and
Henry Colin Campbell torch slsyins
were found in his rooms BY police
He also had prepared solutions
to the DOT" King and Joseph Ell
well mystery murder for q magasint
contest.