The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-21
ZOE WILKINS,
 POPULAR N.LLFE,
 ALONE IN DEATH
None Of Friends Call To See Body Of Slain
 Adventures

9 KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 20.- Dr. Eco Zoe Wilkins, beautiful 3S-ycar- old osteopath found murdered in her home Tuesday, lies alone in death, de- serted by the score of fashionable friends and admirers who had fought for her favors in life.
 At the undertaking parlors where the body of the dashing divorcee, six :, times the bride of wealthy men whom she used merely as fodder for her un- conquerable spirit of adventure, was taken, attendants said no one had call ed to see her.
 $ An occasional passerby stops mo- 4s mentarily in front of the establish ment, looks inauiringly in and then proceeds on his way in slow and meas <. ured steps. No relatives have arrived and no funeral Arrangements have been made pending the inquest to be held Friday.
 l. Meanwhile police are hopelessly lost sin maze of new developments. The murder trail led to a junk-yard Thurs day, where Sam Russell, an employe, identified the knife used in the staying as belonging to Dillar Davis, negro janitor of the mystery house."
 Davis told police Wednesday he had not seen Dr.. Wilkins for several days previous to her murder. He will be questioned again, officers stated.
 Bare Plots And Intrigues . While concentrating on their search l for a man and a woman who were seen to drive up in front of the Will . kins home in a costly motor Sunday night by street vendor, detectives pushed aside the portals shielding the last few years of the divorcee's roman tic existence. 9I
 Here amid the intrigue and strange plots essaying from the cunning brain of the adventures, there ran a strain of disappointment and sorrow. A child of fortune in her earlier years, dissipation and lavish spending had reduced her to a woman who found it tdifficult to acquire the bare necessi- ties of life.
 A list of names of more than forty men, in which was included her former husbands and their friends, was found by officers, but none offered any deti- mite clue to the slayer.
 A premonition that she was to be the victim of a murder plot added zest to the search. Dispatches from Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday said Mrs. Gertrude NJ. Clements, a sister of the slain woman, said she had received a telephone call from Dr. Wilkins a week before the murder asking her to come to Kansas City.
 Feared Death, Says Sister
 'She said she feared she was to be murdered and asked me to come to her" ," Mrs. Clements, who practices osteo- pathy there, said. Police also were in terested in the report that while Dr. Wilkins practiced in Fort Worth with her sister she attempted suicide on sev- eral occasons.
 Another instance in which she de- clared she feared death at the hands of plotters was told Thursday by Otis Green, garage manager.
 "Dr. Wilkins told me two weeks age that he almost killed me yesterday and I'm afraid he will She was speaking of her brother" Green told police.
 Charles Wilkins, the brother, has been arrested but denies participation in the crime. He admits having slap ped his sister, however, on numerous occasions and once forcing her to sleeE on the front porch of the house after she had irritated him.
 B. F. Tarpley of Kansas City, Kan. and assistant yardmaster of the Kan sas City Terminals Railway company patient and friend of Dr. Wilkins . was questioned again Thursday but nc additional details were learned, police said,