The Washington times., 1921-12-25

ly after learned they were meeting
with great frequency. Last year in
August, to get my wife away from
him, took her to Europe
FOLLOWED TO PARIS.
while I went to Switzerland to
visit my brother she insisted on re.
naming in Paris.
ITO my amaxement, when i re-
Joined her l found the Schlemmers
there. Mrs. Schlemmer told me there
had been many meetings between
them and she WAS much disturbed.
We all came back on the Caronia,
and Schlemmer showed passengers
handsome gold cigarette care my
wife had presented to him.
Last April Mrs. Wilkinson and i
decided to separate. Our attorney
drew up an agreement. We parted.
But she returned In June and we
started things over again.
In a month Size went to Canada
TO visit her sister. When she re
turned to New York i was at the
Grand Central with a detective
Schlemmer, Of course, was there.
She entered his car. followed
to Broadway and Seventy-first
street. l stopped their car and
punched Schlemmer. My wife
scratched my face.
My wife has an extremely jeal.
Gus nature. 1t is an obsession. She
says it was not until we were mar.
ried two years ago she discovered
my real name was willem Gibhard
Molkenboer. 1t is good old Dutch
name. / was proud of it. But 1t
was bother in business and I
changed to Wilkinson. In those
years we were both at the bottom
Of the ladder. Elsie was q mas.
seuse and 1 was at the start of nv
business.
when her friendship with
Schlemmer became the gossip of
Great Neck, I begged her to please
tell me If she loved him, and IL so
would give her divorce. quietly
and without publicity. 1 begged
her to put her cards on the table.
She denied being in love with him.
HER $4,000 HOME.
I'm Paris Mrs. Schlemmer drew
me aside and told me she was mis-
cradle. She said Schlemmer and
my wife had left her alone all the
time. But I was hanging on to my
wife desperately and Mrs. Schlem-
mer was hanging on to her hus-
band, and we preferred to be blind
If possible.
Il spent $4,000 on our Great
Neck home. Week-ends we would
motor through the snow In winter
and have awfully good times. Four
times L changed the house furnish
ings completely to please my wife.
Ihen came the change. 1t is very
dirficult for a man who has always
had implicit faith in his wife to be-
heVe anything against her. I took
her explanations because I wanted
TO. l loved her. All this time Bill
Schlemmer and l were often IN
sether. We went hunting and golf
ing together. We were like brother.
Il nave spent a hundred thou
sand dollars on lawyers and detec.
tives and / suppose that in a third
OF what has been spent in this case
Mrs. Schlemmer has not hired de.
tectives. But the rest Of n. bave
been daily chased or chasing"
ACCUSED WIF'E'S STORY.
Now for Mrs. Wnkinson's story.
Il had to leave my husband in
1917 because he treated me cruelty
He was always out with other
women, He always went with them
In the day, coming home at night
and thus preventing me for a time
from being suspicious. But finally
light dawned. The revelation
came when women began calling I'D
the house and asking for Billy
Then 1 discovered that to Broad.
way my husband was known as
Billy He was the intimate friend
of chorus girls and models. He did
not hesitate to pick acquaintance
with veriest hussies. I learned OF
his intimacy with at least one hun
dred women, though l shall name
only twelve or fifteen in court. I
trailed him, with my private de-
tectives. to furnished room in
West Thirty-seventh street, and
found woman there. She was
half dressed.
"Shortly after we separated my