The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-18
WARRANT OUT
FOR DR.. WILKINS
Physician Acused Of Staying
Wife at Long Beach
Disappears.
LATER WILL REPORTED
Unwitnessed Testament Said
to Leave Entire S65, 900
Estate to Physician.

A warrant charging DR.. Walter X
wilkins with the murder of his wife
at their home in Long Beach on Feb
ruary 27 was Issued last night by JUS
Htice Of the Peace Cassius Coleman OF
Long Beach at the request of Charles
r. Weeks, District Attorney of Mas.
sau county.
The warrant has not been served for
the very good reason that neither Mr.
Weeks nor the Nassau authorities have
been able to obtain any trace OF the
accused physician since IL o'clock Sun.
day morning. At that hour, District
Attorney Weeks said last night, DR.
wilkins telephoned to Mr.. weeks's
home at Port Washington and said he
,, was about to start for the Long Island
Railroad station in F1atbush avenue
Brooklyn, for the District Attorneys
home. He hung up the receiver when
Mr.. Weeks agreed to see him, and SC
far as Mr.. Weeks has been able to
learn that is the last that has been
seen Of him in his usual haunts.
Wilkins has been under suspicion as
the slayer of his wife from the moment
District Attorney Weeks entered the
case. The prosecutor said he disbe-
lleved from the very first the physicians
story that his wife was slain by burglar RS
who attacked them as they entered the
Long Beach house late at night upon
their arrival back from DIR. wilkins's Of
fce in Manhattan. which is at 1914 West
sixty-hfth street.
General Alarm sent Out.
DR.. Wilklns's failure to appear at the
Weeks home Sunday and the inability
OF the District Attorneys detectives to
hnd him throughout all of yesterday and
last night, although they sought him fe-
verishly and with the knowledge that the
District Attorney was about to apply for
the warrant, did not disturb Mr.. Weeks
The District Attorney said last night
that he already had caused a general
alarm to be sent out for the missing ply
sician and that he was certain Wilkins
could not remain out of custody for
week. He said he had every reason to
believe the man would be arrested and
locked up within forty-eight hours, If
not even sooner than that.
The warrant for DR.. Wilkins's arrest
was issued after a long discussion OF the
evidence in the possession OF the District
Attorney when he laid that evidence be-
fore Justice of the Peace Coleman. After
he had the warrant the District Attorney
said he had asked for It as the result Of
strong circumstantial and other evil
dence which l have obtained"
ha Of ~
for the warrant, 1t was learned was pre-
cipitated when he learned definitely of
the existence OF a will signed, or purport-
ing to be signed, by Mrs. wilkins That
will, II was said, makes DIR. Wilkins the
chief beneficiary, thus nulllfying a pre-
vious will which left the bulk of her $685.
900 estate to the German Hospital That
earlier will. however. was made before
the marriage OF Mrs. wilkins to the
physician who now is accused of killing
her.
VIII Cited ms a Motive.
DIR. Weeks believes the new viii
clinches the motive for the crime which
he has been trying to build IN
curious feature of the new will, however.
In that although 1t is signed, supposedly
by Mrs. wilkins. 1t does not bear the
names OF witnesses The u strict Attor-
ney's EFFORTS now are being directed to-
ward finding some one who saw the will
signed or who knows the circumstances
In which II was signed.
Louis G. Fress. lawyer with or,ces
at Liberty street. who has been repre
sentng Dr. wilkins since the physician
has been suspected in connection with
the death OF his Wife when asked YES
terday as to the whereabouts of his client
said;
You will have to ask District Attor-
ney Weeks that, and Mr. Weeks also will
have to be authority for the assurance
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