New Britain herald., 1919-03-27
DIR, WILKINS DENIES
Charge OF TAILOR
Says He Did Not Own Clothes
Described

Mineola, l.. l., March 2l.-~The in
vestieation of the murder OF Mrs.
Julia Wilkins took q sensational turn
yesterday when District Attorney
Charles II. Weeks disclosed the test-
mony of Il New York tailor, VINO de-
clared that three or tour DAYS after
the murder on the night OF Fepruary
~ at Long Beach, Dr. Walter X. Will
kins had brought to him for cleaning
a suit of clothes bearing STAINS Whlch,
he said, rcsembled blood.
The suit. which was Of u scrccnish
hue with white pencil stripes, accorN-
ing ia the district attorneys inform
ami was cleaned, pressed and deliv-
c,>od to 1874 West SiXty-fifth street,
tho Manhattan home of Dr. wilkins.
THE Significance OF this new eNi-
dence District Attorney Weeks point
ed ONT arises out OF the contention of
DIR. wilkins, who is in the Nassau
county jail charged with the murder
of his wife that the suit he wore
when arrested in the Pennsylvania
station aft n his disappearance for
several days, was the same one he
wore the night his wife was Killed.
This suit a black cutaway coat and
vest, with gray trousers, bore no cyl
dences of blood stains when examined
by county officials
The new evidence came from Jo-
seph jacobson. proprietor of the SAM
tary Valet Shop, at Broadway ana
Sixtv-fifth street New York, whose
statements We're corroborated by
three employees of the cleaning estab-
ishment he brought with him to Min
cola Yesterday. H said according to
the district attorney, that on the night
of March or DR.. Wilkins entered
his shop carrying two bundles, one OF
which he left. This bundle contained
a three piece suit, described apoNe'
and pair of gray trousers.
jacobson said he noticed that on
| the inside and edges of the right hand
| trousers pocket and on the upper
| right hand side Of the vest inside and
out was what appeared 10 be blood.
| knowing that DIR. wilkins, a customer
| of long standing, was Il physician by
profession, he said, his suspicious at
| that time were not aroused. He
| though that the doctor might have got
| the blood stains while performing an
| operation
AS he does not do dry cleaning, ia
| cobson said he sent the suit to l..
| B1au. a cleaner and dyer at Isl Ave
| nue. c. When he received the clothes
| back from the cleaners he sent them
to the Wilkins home. After reading
that Dir. Wilkins had been indicted on
the charge of murder Jacobson mott
fed New York headquarters about the
clothing.
/ Other witnesses were julius kap-
LAM q presser; Max Weiss, an exam
iner and Alessandro Molca, q. cleaner
all employees of L. Blau. The -four
,sx,1o ~,
| Wilkins asserted he wore the night he
said his wife was killed by thieves
| The witnesses said 1t was not the suit
they had cleaned.
| jacobson, according to District At
torney Weeks has identified DR.. vii
kins in the Nassau county jail as the
man who brought the garments tt
him. Although a careful search ha:
been made for the suit which Jacob
son said he had received, thus far i
has not been found by detectives.
Witnesses who roomed at the Yves
Sixty-fifth street house have testified
that they saw DR.. Wilkins take Wha
appeared to them to be n bundle O
clothes into the cellar of the house
few days after the murder. When h,
reappeared they said, his hands were
empty County Officials now believ,
that he burned the bundle.
Charles n. Wysong, attorney TO
the physician, said yesterday that DR.
! Wilkins emphaticallN denied eve
| owning a suit such as jacobson de
! scribed. He possessed three suits tn
| physician said, none of which was o
S | a greenish color. Dr. Wilkins admit
I | ted, his attorney said, that he had ha,
, a pair of gray trousers pressed at tn
, Jacobson shop about the time that tn
I | tailor N entiOned.