The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-05-02

yI man followed. lhSN u''V "E|'''' "''" often. Then knew that there was nothing Co do. did that.
 Now the evidence goes Co show tna, Wilson and his two older children moved to Oncnoto, staying with his brother on a farm. He said nothing about his wife and the baby.
 To him that was a closed chapter of his life.
 IIr did however go to the county seat, aud file suit for divorce, aller- n~ assertion. Three years, after the divorce was granted him Wilson mar mcd another woman.
 Find Bones Half Buried
 Two boys were rowing the wood5 ncar Onconta. They came upon two hal'hiidon skeletons, one that of a1 adult, the other of small child. Run ming to town the boys told of their discovery, and everybody flockro through the woods.
 Folks who knew said the misSin.s woman and baby were the missing wife ot ". k. Wilson.
 Huwicdly the old citizens went oy- cr the roIlcau of missing persons.
 "Nwdcrcd" they cried in uniforr,.
 Identify Skeletons
 Th' ,.jal proceeded. The boys told of tinding the skeletons. Doctors sail they were boncr of a person; "of .oursn;" if they hadn't been murdered they would have been buried in the graveyard
 And then they remembered that Gll Wilson's first wife hadn't been seen since the night in 1909 when she and the baby diqppeared and Bill took the two children Co his brothers home. suspicion widencd and deepened.a
 B., Wilson's honeymoon was jn- corrupted by his. arrest on a charge of prcmediated murder. That was three years after his first wifc's di,. appearance. ..-..-.. ,..
 'Sho went away,"% be, said. Il don'5 know where. | am sure that she wen. with har loycr" ','
 "Taen why didn't you take the oth- e. g1,Id9 he was asked.
 because she said it wasn't mine, ,aa. the o,he> man was it's father.
 Gi1 Wilson, said, h. Hadn't hsa.I O. h.s first wife and that child since .aa. night. -, -..'
 Folks insisted it was impossible f9r woman aot baby to leave town with. rvJ being seen.
 The prosc1utor'E)osed the case wi;h ar.'Iiyn. pIca to. justice demanding oansament in its most severe form ID. d., murder of the wife and chiii.
 "Wc the jury, find the dcfendau. ~J'.y or mu.der iu the first degree" and the judge. sentenced Bill Wilson .o .ho penitentiary for life.
 Taken To Prison Cell.
 Appeals to higher. courts faileI ,o change the course of law, and Bill Wilson was thrust into prison stripeS and alycruatcd from convict camps to fife cell. That lasted r months,
 Then one day relative of the "othoT man" missing too, got a let ter from Je1nie, the missing woman. Wilson's sister heard about it, and fin. ally located Jennie at Britland, Ind, The murdered" woman hadn't heard that Wilson was :m prison for her death. She came 6agk to QqeQnta amt the machinery of tbe, law. reversed it. self, gradually and .slowIy, ending with the release. from pIison stripes ant cell of Bill Wilson. The law also wiped the murder stainr from his name and thought to square accounts with him by handing him few paltlY dol lars.
 But while bearing the false brand of Cain, Wilson's second wife turned against him. She, too, believed that:ha was a murderer, the slayer of wife and baby, She divorced him. $, t..,
 That's the story of Bill Wilson, con victed on the strongest case of circum- stantial evidence ever presented to any American court. There was absolutely no loophole in the chain of testimony against him. Jury Judge and supreme court said so.
 Guilty beyond reasonable doubt"
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