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Although the medical examiner wrote in his report that Wilcox??s death was “most probably accidental, change of pressure in gas pipe extinguishing light, allowing raw gas to fill bed room,” his family and friends, as well as Harvard administrators, knew that his death was self-inflicted. Four days after the death, Lee wrote to Gay that Wilcox “committed suicide by inhalation...
...carefully reading this letter, I 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...
...case became even more mysterious when Greenough received an unsigned letter dated May 26 from someone who identified himself only as a member of the Class of 1921. The anonymous student knew all the details of Cyril Wilcox??s suicide and informed the Acting Dean how Cyril first got involved with the underground gay group. “While in his Freshman year he met in college some boys, mostly members of his own class, who committed upon him and induced him to commit on them ‘Unnatural Acts’ which habit so grew...
...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...
...bringing [Day] out,” he told The Court that Wilcox was to blame for exposing Day to homosexuality. Day had been “normal” the year before, Roberts claimed, until he had been “led into it by Wilcox??but not of his own free will...