The Detroit times., 1908-07-02
DOCTORS SLAYER
d IS SOUGHT ON
STEAMERS
PHILApELPHlA POLICE AWARE
or IDENTITY OF PERSON WHO
POISONED DR.. wlLsoN-AN
AMAZING STORY REVEALED.

"a, PHILADELPHIA. July Ito pre-
vent the escape OF the slayer of Dr.
VIM. II. Wilson. who died after drink
& Ing poisoned ale. at his home in North
Y Seyenth-st.. detectives OF this city and
from New York today are watching
every outgoing steamship. The sender
4 Of the ale Is known to the police. Their
Information duplicates young and
beautiful woman and man. prominent
IN business and social life in Philadel-
phia. He is a widower.
The young woman Is believed 10 be
q relative. The motive for the Gun.
ningly devised crime was revenge for
\ wrong wrought upon a woman who
fell a victim to the alleged illegal prac-
tice for which. the police now say. the
wealthy physician was celebrated.
Nj Sinister story Disclosed.
Information coming from many quar-
tiers discloses TO the investigators a
sinister story. lived in real life in
!. the quiet Quaker city, under the very
eyes OF the police and with its chief
actors immune for many years from
arrest
A house OF mystery. a country place
equally as mysterious. yachts. motor
8 boats, automobiles, handsome equi
pages and lavish expenditure OF thou
Bands. the source OF which even his
close friends did not suspect. all
1gure in the remarkable life story
which had its tragic end in the pois-
pned ale.
The revenge sought was diabolical.
Not only was the life of the physician
Ebought but that Of his young wife and
his 5-year-old daughter, Vera. as we'll.
super-craft Gives Clew.
So carefully was the deed planned,
k&he bungalow in Cornwells. Pa. where
fthe physician spent the most of his
Kline In the summer. was riied from
top TO bottom so that no trace OF the
kname OF the woman for whose wrong
Vengeance was sought, should ever be
made public. This very super-craft
has given the detectives the clews
which they now are busily following.
The wife OF the physician is silent.
In fact, her collapse after the tragic
death OF her husband SO unneryed her
that her condition Is regarded as
grave. At one time ii was thought
0ue WOulQ ule OF SHOCK.
The searchers have been forced TO
depend upon the information secured
from the physicians friends. Few OF
these know much of him. or of the
mysterious other life which he lived
behind the closed do0ys and the cur
tanned windows of the Seventh-st.
house and at the bungalow at Corn
wells. They knew him as well-groom-
ed, diamond-wearing, good fellow"
free with his money and always pos
sessed OF an apparently inexhaustible
supply OF funds. They did not know
he was a physician. Neither did the
board OF health OF Philadelphia. which
never had his name on their registry
despite the fact that he had carried
on his practice for more than twelve
years.
Feared Assassination.
DIR. Wilson lived In constant fear
OF assassination. That he feared wo-
man is shown by the visit OF mys-
FERROUS and fashionably dressed wo-
man at his Seventh-st house last
week. DIR. Wilson and his wife were
not at home.
The woman spoke to Mrs. Bernard
Brian. German woman, who lives
{ A the house adjoining. She displayed
the greatest anxiety regarding the
doctors return, and seemed disap-
pointed when Mrs. Brian told her
she did not believe he would return
that day.