The sun., 1919-03-18
WARRANT ISSUED
FOR DIR. WILKINS


that new will has been found. know
nothing about one"
About the time that Mr.. Weeks an
nounced that he proposed to make an ar
rest there was a report around Long
Beach that detectives had beon there
questioning a man and woman formerly
employed by DR.. and Mrs. wilkins who
were said TO have entertained three SOL
diers on furlough the night of the muir
der. DR.. Wilkins has said that three
men took part in his wife's murder.
Chief Of Police Tracey OF Long Beach
said last night that he knew nothing
about any visit by soldiers.
Coroner Seu OF Lynbrook will hear
the testimony to-day of six persons liv-
ing in the neighborhood of the wilkins
homo at Long Beach. He said yester-
day that he had been at the conference
between Or. Wilkins and Mr.. Weeks on
Saturday and that DR.. wilkins then
showed every disposition to disclose
everything he knew.
The story OF DR.. Wilkins's life was OBJ
tanned from the physician by Mr.. Weeks,
according to the latter. piece by piece in
the series OF talks they have had since
suspicion first was directed against him.
He said. according to the District Attor-
ney. that he was born at Gorham, Me,
and was the son OF a farmer. He got
common school education and at Is
went to work in Boston as a grocery
clerk. Later he was an insurance agent
in Detroit. and then he moved on to
Kalamazoo, Mich, where he got into the
employ Of n company manufacturing
carpet sweepers. Eventually he became
agent for that company in San Fran
cisco. and there he met and married Miss
Grace Mansfield. daughter OF farmer
According to Mr.. Weeks. DR.. Wilkins
said Miss Mansiield's father supported
them, giving him $3.50 a month.
In 1886 wilkins came to New York
with his wife and got a job as attendant
at the State Hospital Tor the Insane on
Wards Island. 1t was while employed
there that ne studied medicine at the
Bellevue Medical College, where he said
he was graduated. The couple returned
to California in the early '90s and some
time afterward. the District Attorney
said Watkins told him, Mrs. wilkins
procured divorce. alleging non-support
Opened Theatrical Boarding House.
After the divorce Or. wilkins said he
moved to Los Angeles and practised
medicine for two years, coming back to
New York in 1893. He opened two the
atrical boarding houses here. according
to the District Attorney. They were in
NcsL iHlItS eighth street, uIu IL was
there, according TO Mr.. Weeks, that DR..
wilkins met his second wife. This
woman he said, was Susanna kirkland,
an actress and mother of Odette Tyler.
an actress, said now to be the wife OF
diplomat and living in Washington. Mr.
Weeks said DR.. wilkins told him his
second wife died OF paralysis. but that
the physician was reticent and evasive
in his answers about the second wife.
After his second wife died DR.. Will
kins moved to a house in West Fifty
second street, and while lie was living
there met Mrs. Julia Krauss, a widow.
VINO became the third Mrs. Wilkins.
That was in 1905. and she is the woman
who was slain and of whose murder DR..
wilkins is accused. They met at a re-
ception. the District Attorney said DR.
wilkins told him, and after the marriage
DR.. wilkins is said to have admitted he
gave up his practice TO manage her
estate.
Under Or. Wlkns+ handling Mr..
Weeks said, the third Mrs Wilkins's es-
tate increased until. he said, il is esti-
mated now to be worth nearer $500 900
than the So, 900 mentioned as being COW
cred in the original will. Nevertheless
there are mortgages which cut its net
value down to about $1,000 Almost
from the time ors~eir marriage unth~sae
murder DIT. Wilkins and his third wife
lived in the house in West SiXty-fourth
street. The only known relatives surviv-
ing Mrs. wilkins, besides the physician
are nephew and niece, who are
brother and sister. They, according to
the District Attorney. are Edward
Pltske, lawyer. with offices at 1855
Broadway. and Miss Emily Titske.