The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-01
Philadelphia Widower of
Wealth and Prominence
Under Suspicion.
WIFE CONFESSED
ON HER DEATHBED
Man Is Connected With Printing of
Decoy MISUNDERSTANDING
Life Mystery.

PHILADELPHIA JuIy Ito prevent
the escape o. the SLAYER Of DR.. William
H Wilson. who died ar,er drinking
poisoned ale, at his home. S19 North
Seventh street. detectives Of this city
and IN New York are watching every
outgoing steamship today. The sender
OF the ale Is known TO the police. Their
information duplicates a young and
beautiful woman and a man prominent
In business and social life IN PhLadeI-
phia- He is a widower-
The young woman is believed 10 DC
relative. The motive for the cunningly
devised crime was revenge fr a wrong
done the mans wife, who fell a victim
10 the alleged Illegal practice for
which, the police now say, the wealthy
physician was notorious.
Information coming from many quar-
ters discIozes to The Investigators a
sinister story lived in real life under
the very eye n the police and with it's
chief actors, immune for many years
from arrest.
= house 9f mystery. a country place
equally as mysterious. yachts. motor
boats. automobiles, handsome equipages
and lavish expenditure Of thousands.
the source OF which even his close
friends did not suspect, all figure In
the remarkable life story which had its
ia -ic end In the poisoned ale. The re-
vense sought was diab0Hcal. Not only
NGs the life Of the physician sought but
his young wife and his daughter as
well.
Summer House Rifed.
So carefully was the deed planned,
the bungalow IN Cornwells. Pa, where
the physician spent the most of his
time IN summer, was Tifed from top 70
bottom so that no trace of the name
of the woman for whose wrong ven
geance was sought, should ever be
made public. The very sUpercraft has
given the detectives the clews which
they are now busily following.
The suspected mans wife. already the
mother Of thre children so1.l-ht ,,lIt f.
Wilson several moaths az She had
been directed 10 him BY a women friend
living near Jenkinuown, Pa She con-
cealed from her husband the fact that
she had gone 70 the pE ysician until she
was near death from bioodpoisoning,
the result OF the operation
Wne COnfesses on Deathbed.
On her deathbed she confessed the
truth 10 her husband He had been
devoted II ner and the thought that
he was &c lose his wife under such cir-
cumstsnces drove him nearly insane He
recOilcd from the idea Of having DIT.
Wilson arrested He wished 10 shield
his wife's memory and his children from
the disgrace that exposure would bring
| upon them
II is at this juncture that the mysterI-
oUS young woman is believed 10 have
entered upon the sc le OF the tragic
life drama
She is described as a handsome young
/ brunette, stylishly dressed, with a gold
tooth conspicuous in her upper jaw
This woman came here on Thursday
afternoon end asked me TO tell her
wnen Mr.. Wilson would come home. '
said Mrs. Bernard Biarin, Of S21 North
Seventh street, next door TO DR.. VIII
sons house, when she recalled the IN
Cident after learning that her neigh
Dor mad been murdered. she WIS very
anxious to see the doctor, but I tod her
1 could pSt tell her anything except
that he generally left home every Tues
day and Friday evening after staying
at the house on those two days.
asked her what she wanted and no
she was an6 offered 10 deliver any EIes-
sage for her 10 Dr. Wilson She would
not give her name. but handed me z
doctor He viii knew all about mt
then she said.
Glad to Receive Card.
"I couldn't read what was on the
! card. but handed iC 70 DIT. Wilson on
/ Friday morning when he came TO town
| and he THANKED Ule very much. He was
/ highly pleased over receiving the mes
| sage and SAID so in German. He spoke
/ very fine German. and he and / con
| versed mostly in that language. He
/ told me that MS real name was not vii
/ son, but Wulfsohn. Wilhelm Wulf
sohn, he said, was his right name"
The mysterious young woman was not
seen again on Friday. Nor has the
card she delivered been recovered b!
! the detectives in their search of DR.
| Wilson's papers and effects for possible
! clues to his murders.
Paper Points to Suspect.
Several other papers found in the
physicians house have thrown consider
able light on the mystery One of thes
! papers record transaction between
/ Wilson and the wife OF the man suspect
! ed Of being his pOisOner. With this i'm
| portant clue the detectives have almos
positively identified this husband as The
man who sent the poisoned ale to DIR
! Wilson, and they have furthermore con
nected the same man with the printing
of the forged letterheads made espe
cially Tor the purpose OF misleading th'
doctor to believe that the poisoned all
came from = Well-known brewing com
pany.
Tne printing OF the deCOy letteTheadS
, which formed the most cunning part O
/ the pOisOner's plot, will probably ais
be the strongest link in the chain o
| circumstantial evidence woven aroun
him. The same forged letterhead wa
used both in the letter which was ser
to Or. Wilson TO notify him that a sam
pie bottle Of ale had been sent to hiT
| under separate cover and on the pack
age sent the follow,Sg day with tn
| poisoned ale The letterhead was also o
the envelope of the decoy letter. tn
: detectives have, therefore, been able Z
connect 6hS suspect both with writin