Evening star., 1932-09-17
DUBOIS LETTER
T0LAWYERF0UND
Attorney WithhoIds Contents
of Note Written Two Hours
Before Suicide.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
QUINCY, Mass, September IT,
Charles E. Dubois, Tuckahoe, N. Y,
jeweler, slipped letter into the desk of
his lawyer, jeremiah j. MacAnarney,
two hours before he committed suicide
yesterday. MacAnarney disclosed today.
MacAnarney admitted the letter dealt
with the predicament of Dubois, whose
wife's body was found buried in the
cellar of the Dubois Summer home, at
Plymouth, five hours after the suicide.
but said it contained no admission of
guilt that Dubois had slain his wife.
The lawyer said he would confer with
an associate regarding the letter and, if
1t was determined the contents of the
misslve could be made public without
harmlng any one" he would make it
public Monday.
MacAnarney said he conferred with
Dubois in his Office at 9 o'clock yester-
day morning. He said he noticed
Dubois pick up two sheets of CORE
spondence paper and then move a psn
toward himself. The lawyer was called
from the room for a short period and
when he returned Dubois bade him
good-by and left for the rooming house
where he had been living for three
days as Ralph Anderson" and where
he shot himself After the suicide and
the finding of Mrs. Dubois body last
night, MacAnarney discovered the let
ter in drawer in his desk
Leaves Mother Property.
The lawyer also said that Dubois
mother. Mrs. Cecile Dubois of New York
City, was left all of her sons property
in will which MacAnarney and Dubois
drew up earlier in the week, shortly
after the police had been refused a
murder complaint against Dubois be-
cause the body of the woman he was
charged with Staying had not been
found
The cellar crypt that concealed the
corpse Of Mrs. Du Bois was built, police
suspect, at a time when the grazing
housewife was still alive and grieving-
in a room above her future tomb
about her husbands affection for that
other woman
After the body was placed in the con-
crete crypt Du Bois entertained at gay
parties in bottle-strewn room only 8
feet above his wife's body, detectives
said, as they cast new light on the case.
Immediately Assistant District Attor-
ney John v. Sullivan had sent 10 men
"2NAi PAShdhCo W tllC bu DOlo
cottage near Great Herring Pond, with
orders to demolish it if necessary in the
search. New construction there had
aroused his suspicious.
A few blows of sledge laid open the
funeral vault. strong concrete box in
the cellar. The body lay inside, wrapped
In black cloth. pillow underneath the
head and window cord about the
waist. Medical examination showed
Mrs. Du Bois died of a bullet wound
about August 10. the day when police
had figured she disappeared.
Declared to Have Worried.
Detectives said they learned from
Mrs. elliott, wife of New York jew
eler, that Mrs. Du Bois had been worry
ing before her death. She had writ
ten Mrs. elliott, complaining that her
husband was acting queerly spending
nearly all his time in the cellar where
he would dig for days" and lapsing
into strange silence when he came up.
She wrote also police were told.
that Du Bois, only one year younger
than his wife. but much more youthful
in demeanor, apparently no longer
loved her and that he was "ike
crazy man over that. other womah."
After Du Bois was released last Mon
day police questioned Miss Grace At
wood of Middleboro, blonde and youth
full daughter of a wealthy manufac-
turer. They said she told them she
had been friendly with Du Bois. He
had informed her, she said, that his
wife was killed in an automobile acci-
dent in Montreal. Authorities absolved
Miss Atwood of any knowledge of the
Staying.
Chauffeur Helped Du Bois.
Lawrence Frasier. former chauffeur
for the Du Bois family, was brought
here from Braintree for questioning.
He told police he assisted Du Bois in
laying a concrete layer in the cellar,
but he said Du Bois informed him it
was foundation for a pump and
washing machine. Sullivan said Frazier
was in New York when the tomb itself
was built
It was neighbors' curiosity over Mrs.
Du Bois' absence that led to the wide
spread hunt, in which troops were
called to assist police. Police said Du
Bois told conflicting stories, one that
she was killed in an auto accident and
again that she ran away with S25, 900
of his money.
Du Bois and his wife were considered
well-to-do. They had homes in Tucka-
hoe, N. Y, and Braintree, Mass, as well
as the Summer cottage. few days
ago investigators found the record of
a deed In which the Braintree property
was transferred from Mrs. Edith Du
Bois (the slain woman) to a Grace Du
Bois of New York with the consent of
Charles Du Bois.
Assistant District Attorney Sullivan
said the States inquiry was closed,
THE sole culprit is dead" he de-
clared.