The Detroit times., 1908-07-01
D0CTOR' S SLAVE R
I IS SOUGHT ON
STEAMERS
pHtLADELPHiA POLICE AWARE
or IDENTITY OF PERSON WHO
POISONED DR.. wlLsoN-AN
AMAZING STORY REVEALED.

PHILADELPHIA. July Ito pre-
vent the escape Of the slayer OF DR..
VIM. III. Wilson. who died after drink
\ Ing poisoned ale. at his home in North
Z Seyenth-st.. detectives OF this city and
\ from New York today are watching
eyery outgoing steamship. The sender
Of the ale is known to the police. Their
Information duplicates young and
beautiful woman and a man, prominent
In business and social life In Philadei-
phia. He is widower.
q The young woman Is believed 10 be
q relative. The motive for the cum
ningly devised crime was revenge for
wrong wrought upon a woman who
fell victim 10 the alleged Illegal prac-
tice for which. the police now say, the
wealthy physician was celebrated.
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
afrest.
A house OF mystery, a country place
equally as mysterious, yachts. motor
boats, automobiles. handsome elut
pages and lavish expenditure OF thou.
sands. the source OF which even his
close friends did not suspect, all
hsure I'm the remarkable life story
which had its tragic end In the pois-
oned ale.
The revenge sought was diabolical
Not only was the life of the physician
sought but that OF his young wife and
his 5-year-old daughter. Vera, as well.
super-craft Gives cIew.
So carefully was the deed planned.
the bungalow in Cornwells, Pa, where
the physician spent the most OF his
time In the summer, was ritied from
top TO bottom SO that no trace of the
name OF the woman for whose wrong
vengeance was sought, should ever be
made public. This very super-crafr
has given the detectives the clews
which they now are busiiy following.
The wife of the physician is silent.
In fact. her collapse after the tragic
death OF her husband SO unnerved her
that her condition is regarded as
grave At one time IL was thought
ehe would die 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 doors and the cur
tntned windows of the Seventh-st.
house and at the bungalow at Corn
wells. They knew him as wellgroom-
3D. diamond-wearing, good fellow"
free with his money and always pos
sessed of an apparently inexhaustible
supply of funds. They did not know
ne 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 a wo-
man is shown by the visit OF mys-
FERROUS and fashionably dressed wo-
man at his Seventh-st. house last
week. Dr. 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
ehe did not believe he would return
that day