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Show IDE WESSE MAY 11 I!jFWEOI j Key to Safety Deposit Vault Found in His Possession by Police. ACCUSED MAN SILENT t Refuses to Divulge Location of Supposed Cache of Funds. Indication that Howard De Weese, alleged slayer of his wife at 455 i.j Sec-j ond East street, is a man of wealth de- J vol oped yesterday when it was stated that following his arrest in Chicago and his placing iu a cell here a key for a safety deposit vault was found in. his possession. 1 The ke ifas discovered hanging from the buttonhole of his undershirt. Despite the most rigid search by guards and detectives, it remained secure upon the man for two weeks, and when it was Taken from him he is said to have shown, great regret. De Weese was questioned at length by detectives, who sought to Hud the place where the supposed money is hoarded. To all requests De Weese turned a deaf ear. ile refused to di-; vulge auy information as to what lock; the key, was meant to unlock. j Since his arrest he has been asked I on several occasions as to whether he had retained an attorney. Yesterday De Weese is reported to have said that a lawyer from the east would be here for his trial. He refused to state who the lawyer was or where he belongs. Conjecture on Reasons. The police are of the opinion that the accused gave himself up in the east on the advice of an attorney and they believe that this same .counsel will be the one who will defend De Weese when he battles for his life before the jury. On the night that De Weese surrendered surren-dered in Chicago and said that he could prove an alibi, stating that he was not at home when The murder was committed, commit-ted, he declared that he had managed to keep himself rather comfortably by committing diamond robberies in many parts of the country. Will the safety deposit vault yield a vast store of jewels jew-els or considerable money? That is" the question that the police ask. According to De Weese 's statement, he followed the "profession'-' of a burglar bur-glar for several years. lie said that he burglarized from coast to coast and that in no sense of the word was he a petty thief. He branded himself as the greatest diamond robber of the last decade. When De Weese told of his supposed robberies tho police were skeptical. Since the finding of the kev they are inclined to pay some attention to his remarks. It was thought that when he told about the big robberies that ho was addicted to drugs. Cured of Drugs. According to De Weese. thee years' detention iu a prison in Indiana cured him of the drug habit. He said that following his release he had no craving for drugs. t There has been considerable speculation specula-tion as to whether the family of De Weese in Canon City, Colo., would come to his assistance in the crisis of his life. So far there has been no communication com-munication from them. De Weese does not seem to care that he has not heard from his folks. All in good time he hopes to have his lawyer present and to prove that he did not commit the murder. On the other hand the police claim that they have a solid chain of circumstantial evidence. De Weese realizes by the questions that, have been fired at him that the case is rather serious. His nervousness has worn off. He is calm and collected. Besides the discovery of the key, it developed yesterday that ilrs. De Weese shortly before she was murdered wrote n letter. The destination of that letter is not known to eilher the sheriff's sher-iff's oftice or to the police. Letter Not Deciphered. Patrolman A. S. Thomson, who was a rle put y sheriff last September, lis one of the officers specially assigned to the case. In the room of the murdered woman he discovered a writing pad. There was an inden Hon upon it. The lines of the indention showed that it was a woman who had written the note. The pad was taken to a photographer and the strongest lenses were brought to play on the pad, but it was impossible to determine by the indention what the woman had written. The pad was then taken to professors of chemistry and no expense was sparod in an effort to decipher de-cipher what had been written by the indention, but all in vain. The police suspect that tho woman, realizing that she had married a man who was not np to expectations, had regretted her folly and had written to her folks. ,T. Parley White, chief of police, has been advised by Inspector Faurot of the New York detective bureau that (he two trunks that De Weese shipped from Tfcoo just before he and his wife left Nevada for Salt Lake will be sent here. The police believe that there are certain contents that might aid the prosecution. |