The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-12-02
IS NOT YET POSITIVE
Husband VIII Test Every
Mark Before Admitting
Identification
TO LOOK AT JEWELS
Murdered for Her Diamonds
Is Theory of Man Who
Deemed Her Dead


The last remaining doubt con-
cerning the real name of the
woman who was found buried in
the barn at the rear of the cot
tage of NJ. A. Wilkins at Elm
hurst and for whose alleged
murder Wilkins stands accused
by a coroner's jury was dispellcd
yesterday, when Louis L. Car
min, locomotive engineer OF
Kansas City, identified the body
as that of his wife. whom for Is
months he had believed to be
dead.
The victim of the tragedy in
the little EInlhurst cottage was
Verna Carrnin. Before her mar
riage to Carn1in she was Verna
Linderman. daughter of H P.
Linderman, keeper OF a hotel in
Kansas city. With the Identification
OF the woruzn d new theory Of the mo-
tive for her murder-tnat OF robbery
was advanced by her HUSBAND
Fer Is n1cntEs vsFaz szru1in had
been naourned as dezd ry her nusbaua
and her fstEer.s family. she was sup
posed to have persisted IN train
wreck when six passenger coaches OF
a Rock Island train plunged into the
Mississippi river and more shzn 50
passengers lost their lives in the water
Many Of the bodies were never re-
covered.
TRAIN Is WRECKED
At the time OF her disappearance she
had left the home OF her husband IN
Kansas City for short visit to friends
in a suburban city She never re-
turned The train on which she
should hare been was the one wrecked
ard not for an instant. according tc
CaFuiH. was II supposed that she had
deserted her husband TO run away
The first fnteIIigencs that Mrs Car.
min possibly might have escaped the
train wreck was given her Kansa,
City relatives when the telegram from
Sheriff Barnet asking for = description
of vernz Carmin vas received by Lin
deruzn. her father, last week TeIe-
graphic descriptions and stories printed
by newspapers lifted the woman and
her life so we'll that the trip hall
across the continent By the man sup
posed to be her husband resulted
Carmin came alone. Linderman being
prevented at the last moment.
Carmfn arrived at o'clock yester
day morning. went TO the Netherfane
hotel at 1888 Market street. and mad.
the trip across the bay yesterday after,
noon to confer with Sheriff Barnet
who has been conducting the investi-
cation into the wilkins case since tn.
uncovering Of the tragedy.
The Identification was made soIsI,
by means OF the teeth. Czrmin refusins
to look at the remains Of the wonar
until the entire body had been covered
with q sheet, a small hole permitting
only an examination Of the mouth
USES DENTISTS CHART
From a chart specially prepared for
him by Kansas City dentist besors
hts departure fer this city. Carmir
picked out pecuIiaritfes which tailed
without exception with the dead
womanrs teeth.
Caruin. despite the fact that the
woman on whose remains he was gaz-
ing had deserted him. showed by his
every action that the old love for ths
woman who had been his wife was not
yet dead. After as brief an examina-
tfon Of the woman's teeth as would ad-
NIT of thoroughness. Carmin expressed
a wish to leave the place
carnin would not authorize the cor
oner to sign the death certificate Of
the woman until he had been permitted
to examine the jeveIrx that had be
Ionged 70 her and which had beer
found in the possession Of her accused
slayer.
For more than 4 year I have be.
ueved her dead ne said. . and not
until every one OF Eatf dozen ways ]
have OF Identifying her have beer
tested beyond the least possibility OF
a mistake will admit that that woman
was my wife
TELLS OF SCAR
The woman whom married rad =
slight scar running across her fore