The sun., 1919-06-19
BLOOD ON WILKINS
SUIT, SAYS TAILOR
Thrill at Murder Trial When
Witness Identifies Ac-
cused Doctor.
ASKED TO REMOVE STAINS
Housekeeper Revises Previous
Testimony-Police Chief
-. on Stand.
ASKED TO REMOVE STAINS

The jury which is hearing the case
Of DR.. Walter X. wilkins, who is on
trial at Mlneola for tho murder Of his
wife at Long Beach last February.
was thrilled yesterday when a tailor,
who had Just testified to tho blood
stains on a suit which Dr.. Wilkins
brought him to clean a few days AFTER
the murder, pointed dramatically TO tho
aged physician and cried that he was
the man.
The tailor. Joseph Jacobson. who has
n shop on Columbus avenue near tho
rooming house In West Sixty-nfth street
which DR.. wilkins and his wife used TO
conduct, was called by District Attorney
Charles r. Weeks to prove one of the
circumstances which, in the contention
of the State. tends to connect DIR. Will
kins with the death OF his wife. Mr..
Weeks in his Opening address Monday
told the jury that he would show that
Or. Wilkins shortly after the murder
brought a suit of clothes to q cleaner
| that the cleaner tried to clean Il and
&C uld not and that thereafter DR.. VII
kins burned II. He called Jacobson 10
the stand as his flrst witness along this
line.
| Jacobson described the suit in detail
after the manner of his craft, told OF
blood stains upon It and how DR.. VIII
kins showed them to him, and said tina,
his customer demanded that the suit be
cleaned without delay. as he needed II
for immediate use. Jacobson, giving II
AZ his professional opinion that the suit
would have to go to some establishment
where the facilities for cleaning were
more elaborate. wilkins agreed to have
II forwarded there, and then few days
later returned for II. The stains were
| still upon It.
| Identities DR.. wilkins.
| And now" said Mr.. Weeks, lis the
man who brought you that suit in this
court room?'
Yes" cried jacobson. pointing to the
| defendant. He Is sitting there"
With his final witness of the day
Mrs. Mary Nietchel. who was house
keeper at the Sixty-hfth street roomins
house, Mr.. Weeks was not SO fortunate
although she verified one link In the
circumstantial chain by which II /,
sought to prove DR.. wilkins guilty
He called her AZ his witness to prove
the burning Of the suit. but she declined
to bear out her testimony at the Cor.
oner's inquest to the effect that she had
seen the Doctor make three Journeys
from an upstairs room In the roomins
house to the furnace in the cellar. She
insisted yesterday she heard him on the
stairs but did not see him. and wher
her notice was called to her TESTIMONY
before the Coroner said she was nervous
and half fainting then. and II she had
said she had met him on the stairs de.
sired to correct II now.
However, she proved notably worth
the States while in another respect
Asked II DR.. Wilkins had said any.
thing to her as to his being suspected OF
the murder. she said he had that on the
day following Mrs Wiikins's death
some one had called on the roomins
house telephone and inquired II she were
aware that her employer had killed his
wife: and that she had repeated tho con.
versation to another woman and then In.
formed her employer OF what she had
| done.
And what did he say to your' in.
Quired Mr.. Weeks.
He said" Mrs. Nietchel replied, THAI
! should not have done that as It made
matters look bad for him"
Did he say anything else?"
Yes. He said. DO you not know
that the last housekeeper we had here