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About May 22, George Wilcox called on Acting Dean of the College Chester N. Greenough, Class of 1898, to inform him of Cyril’s suicide. He presented to Greenough the names he had extracted from Dreyfus and mentioned the two letters from Roberts and Saxton...
...think you will obtain all the information you desire,” Wilcox wrote. But for some reason, in George Wilcox’s own letters to Greenough he chose to refer to several of the men involved not by their real names, but by a strange cipher. Dreyfus was referred to as Parker, Cyril Wilcox as Potter, Saxton as Preston, Roberts as Putnam, Cummings as Pope and Courtney as Piper...
Perhaps The Court wanted to ask Day more questions about Dreyfus after Greenough received a May 27 letter from George Wilcox using the strange cipher. He enclosed a photograph of Dreyfus that he found and described him as “slightly more tall than I perhaps 5’9’’ or 10’’. He has a thin black moustache. He probably weighs about 140 lb.” He added: “I have lately found a letter written by Piper [Courtney] to Potter [Cyril Wilcox] in which...
...also provided new information on the last months of Wilcox’s life. Roberts told The Court that Wilcox had “practically lived” with Dreyfus at his apartment on 44 Beacon St. The two lovers had met during the summer, Roberts said, and one fall night at a Beacon Hill club called the Lighted Lamp, Wilcox went home with Dreyfus. After that, Roberts said they were together “every night.” But when Wilcox decided to leave Dreyfus, the older man began “threatening to expose him to college...
...this evening here at the house,” he wrote. “I went to talk with him. He says that he personally is alright but that Roberts is not a ‘moral man’ and is addicted to the same practices that Parker [Dreyfus] is.” Wilcox implied that he beat up Cummings as he previously had Dreyfus: “The interview terminated the same as the one I had with Parker [Dreyfus...