The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-03-21
WILKINS COLLAPSES
IN JAIL; FEARS He
WILL DIE IN CELL
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umiss, but his demands were not
granted.
Sheriff Phineas Seaman said to-day
that he would place special guard
over his prisoner tonight.
The authorities asked that this be
done. feari. that the Doctors mind
give way under the strain. They are
nov investigating the ssIme from a
new angle.
They have theory. based on evil
dcnce they decline to disclose. that
before the murder Mrs. wilkins had
entered the house at Long Beach. re-
moved her hat and silk gloves. put
on pair OF old cotton gloves. and
had gone to the driveway to feed the
dogs. II was then she was struck
down, according to the new theory.
| The detectives say the purple hat
she had worn shows no marks such
us It would have had II she had worn
II when struck down by the hammer
blows. Furthermore. they say. the
hatpins were crossed as woman
usually leaves them after removing
her hat.
Or. wilkins, who has been sub
Jected to almost continuous exam.na-
ton since he was arrested in the
Pennsylvania Terminal here, sticks
to his story OF innocence. He de-
clared:
II have never had an accusation
made against me in my life until
these deyilish charges came up"
The authorities have challenged his
story that he left New York with a
view to going to his stepdaughter's
home in Washington, but decided
suddenly to stop IN Baltimore. They
say the stepdaughtor, who was known
on the stage as Odette Tyler, has
been in California for six weeks, and
that the doctor knew IL. He said he
had his mustache and whiskers
shaved off because he wanted to
come back without being bothered by
detectives.
No amount Of questioning could
elicit from Or. wilkins any infurma-
ton as to his movements in Baltimore.
This whole thing has been a ter
rible experience" he said. Il Eave
lived in New York for years and |
never knew they treated people this
way. This charge of murder ogdinst
me is nonsensicai. II is devilish. [
, loved my wife. She loved me. This is
terrible blow. am innocent Of this
murder charge and every one know;
% | am innocent"
Dr. wilkins was asked by the po.
lice yesterday at his Long Beach
home, to which he was taken on his
way to be arraigned, to produce the
murder.
The suit l have been wearing eveI
since is the one" replied the doctor
81 have only one other suit-&n clt
one. | should like 10 wear this suit
to Mineola II you don't mind
The police said they had no objec.
tion and in the clothes he says h,
wore the night his wife was killed III
entered the Mineola Jail.
Another search Of the wilkins homt
afternoon to get together all the mur'
dcred woman's papers. When Attor
7 ney Freiss was asked whether IN,
doctor had made any attempts a
conccalng deeds to his wife's prop
erty he said he and others knew
y every piece of realty she owned o
Z had any interest in.
Il knew Mrs. Wilkins for man!
70 year," he declared. "She was m!
client for twenty years, and while
saw tho doctor infrequently ! n"ye
- heard her take exception to anything
said or done by him, except on On,
occasion when she told me that n,
was too liberal in his treatment of he
To- tenants"
Mr.. Friess Will make application fu
70 tho appointment OF himself as trustee
of the common fund of DR.. Wilkini
and his wife, on which they used Il
draw checks. II Is understood tina
motion will Dnnla with m