The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1919, Page 3

STATE TO FINSH ITS CASE AGANST WILKINS MONDAY Aged Physician to Take Stand in Own Defense Next Week, EXPEDITE TESTIMONY Broken Watch Crystal, Drugs and Blood Stains Feature Week's Evidence. Lemteeel \——4 aT! MINEOLA, L. L, June 1.—An ad- Journment of the trial of Dr. Walter Keene Wilkins for wife murder until Monday was used to-day by the Dis- trlet Attorney and the counsel for Dr. Weeks in going over the evi-! dence taken during the past week. District Attorney Weeks hopes to finish with bis remaining three wit- nesses, Detective Allen Meyers, Dr. Otto H. Schultze of New Yerk, the autopsy expert, and David N. Car. valho, the handwriting expert, at Monday's session: In expediting the| session the lawyers have been guid- ea by Justice Manning’s suggestion that it is well to concede the quali- feations of expert witnesses which have been established in dozens of, trials through the last ten years,! only putting before the jury enough | to show that the witnesses are really experts. ONLY FEW WITNESSES LEFT FOR DEFENSE. Mr. Wyvong says the prosecution yas already called two-thirds of his intended thirty witnesses and he has few persons to put on the stand ex- copt the white-whiskered physician- defendant. The success of the sixty- seven-year-old man in withstanding cross-examination will probably de- cide his fate, those who have been watching the trial agreed to-day. ‘The proceedings yesterday worked steadily towards the climax in the dramatic progress of the trial, Tes- timony not touched upon in the opening for the State was adduced. Of such was the plecing together of what is known as “the clue of the gold Swiss watch;” also evidence tending to show that the elderly phy- sician was addicted to the use of narcotics, Earlier in the week it was shown that Dr, Wilkins had a solid gold Swiss repeater with an extremely fragile crystal, formerly owned by Leon Krauss, his wife's son by a former marriage, now dead. It had alse been shown that Dr. Wilkins, at about the time of the murder, car- ried @ plated Waltham watch, which had deen given him by Mrs. Wilkins to save the annoyance of having the crystal of the other repaired con- unually. In his story of the attack in the! Long Beach cottage, Dr. Wilkins said the robbers had carried away his| Wattham watch and that he had not worn the Swiss watch for many weeks, Carman Plant, county detective, swore yesterday that he found a broken watch crystal on the brick walk near the spot where Mrs, Wil- kins lay dying after the attack. Les- ter Chadwick, son-in-law of Plant, | employed by the county as watchman for the Wilkins cottage after the ar- rest of the physician, swore he found the Swiss watch thrust arm deep into the stuffing of a sofa on the sec- ond story of the cottage, March 21. It was wrapped in a blood stained napkin, the crystal was missing. The hands had stopped at 9.28 1-2 o'clock. BROKEN CRYSTAL FITTED INTO WILKINS WATCH. Before the jury the broken pieces of crystal jn the yard were fitted into the Swiss watch. Dr. Charles Nor- ris, Chief Medical Examiner for New York County, testified the srots were made by fairly fresh human blood. Again and again the attention of the jury had been called to the fact that by whatever hand, Mrs, Wilkins was attacked at a little after twenty minutes past 9 o'clock the night of Feb. 27, Again there was a sharp contest be- tween counsel on the reliability of the clue furnished by the discovery of a gold loversknot scarfpin with a tiny diamond setting. State detectives say they found it in the lining of the change pocket of Dr. Wilkins's over- coat, Witnesses have quoted the doc- tor’s narrative of the wrestling of such a pin from his tie by the burg- Jars, The housekeeper of the New York City lodging house of Mrs, Wil- kins sald the pin in court was exactly like the one she had seen the physl- cian wear, Mr. Wysong emphasized the fact that though the coat had been in the custody of Detective Plant since early March, the pin in the lining was not forthcoming until Juno Ui, after the beginning of the trial; he empha- sized the opportunities afforded to Allen Meyers, a Burns detective hired by the county to tamper with the coat, DRUGS TAKEN FROM DOCTOR | Wounded lets, on his return from his fiigilt to Bal- timore (under a changed name and with his mutton-chop whiskers shaved off), there were shown to the jury a hypodermic syringe and a bottle of sulphate of morphine tab- The other articles taken from him were letters, soap, manicure Scissors and one or two drugs sulted for his heart trouble, A highly colored relief to the tense contest over the evidence was af- forded by the presenting of William J, Burns, head of the detective agency, as a State's witness. It was broad comedy to everybody except Burns, Justice Manning and Mr. Wysong, who entered on a slam- bang, give-and-take cross-examtha- tion, Burns, in the course of his retorts, which were seldom answers, charged that his competitors, the Pinkertons, and not the State of New York were behind the pending investigation of his agency with a view to revoca- tion of Its license, Burns grew less hostile until Mr. Wysong asked him if one W. N, Hill, convicted by Burns's evidence in the land fraud cases, had not been par- doned on Attorney General Wicker- sham’s report that the Burns evi- dence was unfair. “Yes,” roared Burns, “He was pardoned, but $150,000 was paid for that pardon.” Q. Paid to President Taft? A. No, Q. To Attorney General Wicker- ham? <A. No, but—that big bunch of cooks. ‘ Q. Associates of President Taft fand his Cabinet? A. Oh, a big bunch of erooks put it over for another man and Jones got the benefit of it. Burns in his testimony said Dr. Wilkins admitted to him that the robbers must have struck him down with something “pretty soft” und even acknowledged it might have been a fist blow. Dr, Wilkins told many others he was struck with a lead pipe or a blackjack, WALL STREET OPERATORS WILL NOT JOIN WIRE STRIKE Officers of Three Press News Ser- vice Framing Demands for 50 Per Cent. Wage Increase, Hopes of the striking telegraph operators that they would be joined by the press operators and the mon who handle the brokers’ wires re- ceived two setbacks to-day. W. W. Ewing, chairman of the Kastern di- vision of the brokers’ operators, sald his men would not go out on a syin- pathetic strike. Roy Howard, presi- dent of the United Press Association, said he was ready and willing to meet operators with a proposal to advance wages. He said he anticipated no strike on U. P, wires. Whe chief executives of the oper- ators’ organizations of the United Press, the International News Service and the Universal News Service are meeting in New York to-day to frame demands which will be presented Mon- day, The demands, it is understood, will call for approximately 50 per cent. increase in pay, . The Associated Press, it is said, is not affected by any of the plans for wage increases. BURGLARS CARRY OFF $4,000 WORTH OF SILK Break Into Office on Fifth Floor at Nos, 114-116 East 28th Street. Burglars appear to be becoming Ibblder because of the ukuse of the po- |lce against publicity, Sometime in the early hours of ‘Theraday morning the office of the Helenora Silk Company on the fifth floor of the loft building at Nos, 114-116 East 28th Street, which Is @ modern fire and burglar proof structure, was en-| tered and $4,000 worth of Georgette; silk was taken, The burglars packed up $7,000 worth more ellk, but left It. William Green, the colored night elevator man, forsook his cage at 10 jo'clock as usual and says that he was Jabout the building until 1 o'glock in the morning, After he had retired, the burglars jimmied the front door| of the Helenora Company's office, | William Natenson, president of the silk concern, does not believe in a door- plate, So during the day he hangs out! a sign with his name on it and at night takes In the sign. He said to-day the police had not bound him to secrecy, WHEN ARRESTED. In @ quantity of articles taken from Dr. Wilkins when he was ar- vested at the Pennsylvania Terminal Detectives went to the building Thurs- day morning and looked the office over, iepeant and policeman remnaln on guard sergeant ‘pol re on guar ecrullnizing ell passers-in, Soldiers in Wheel Chairs Lined Up For Prize Awards in the “‘Crutch Parade’ resent be} /State, that the cost to the & quart of mitk at the farm is 6% cents, and before that qu A group of spectators at the “crutch parade”—from left to right. Mrs. Francis M. Wilson, Francis M. Wilson, Capt, Louis Alfaro and Mrs. Alfaro. LANDLORD ORDERS |WAR HERO ACCUSES HN TO MEET $20 BOOST OR GET UT Bronx Tenant Says Owner » Demands He Sign a Two-Year Lease, Reports of extortionate rent in- creases and failures of landlords to keep their promises regarding re- pairs and decorations continue to reach The Evening World and the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteer- ing. A sample case is a complaint to this newspaper ftom a tenant of the apartment houses Nos. 1430-1432 Uni- versity Avenue, the Bronx, who says he has been notified that his rent is to be boosted from $40 a month to $60 on Oct. 1 and that he must sign a lease at the increased figure by July 1 or lose his apartment. Another tenant on the same avenue, at No, 1611, tells the Mayor's Com- mittee he occupies four rear rooms five flights up in @ non-elevator apartment house for which the rent under his present lease is $40 a month. He says he has been notified that on Oct. 1 the rent will be $57, and that he must make a two-years’ jease at once, Six letters from as many different tenants of Nos, 212-220 West 140th Street were received by the Mayors Committee to-day, reporting that the rental of six-room apartments was re- cently increased from $88 to $43 a month and that now notice has been served that the future rent is to be $50. One of these tenants encloses a notice which he says he has just re- ceived from the Terry Holding Com- pany announcing this Jatest increase, It ig exceedingly apologetic, explain- creased cost of upkeep and promises that the apartments shall be put into and maintained in condition second to none in the city. A tenant of No, 146 West 83d Street, reporting an increase in rent from $23 a month to $45, adds that if this sort of thing is not checked tenants will be driven to Bolshey'sm and rey- olution, Twelve tenants of Nos, 1392-1394 Busbwick Avenue, Brooklyn, were present to lestify before Commission. er of Accounts Hirshfield yestérday against their landlady, Mary Smythé of No, 1193 Jefferson Avenue, Brook- lyn, Only five were called, One tes- tified that Ernest Smythe, the woman's husband and agent, without giving previous notice of any in- crease, called on June 2 and eoliected a $7 increase for this month, saying: “1 don’t want any more of this flim- flam, Your rent 1s $25, which you will pay to-night ur get out to-morrow.” Another testified that Smythe, an- ewering her protest, sald: ‘The more we raise rents, the more it boosts the price of our property.” Smythe swore that he could bring other tenants who would testify that WOMAN OF SEIZING =: ~ FATHERS ESTATE Soldier Who Lost Leg at Ar- gonne Says She Sent His Sisters to Poorhouse. Benjamin Fidlow, « private of the 6th Infantry, with his right leg cut off at the hip after an Argonne wound, appeared before the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering to- day with a plea for ald under the fol- lowing condition: “When I and my brother went to France in the spring of 1918 we left our father and two brothers and a sister (the children from nine to thir- teen years old), living in @ two-fam- ily house at No, 548 New Jersey Ave- nue, Brooklyn; the other half of the house was owned by my father’s friend, Philip Feineman, ..“1 returned from General Hospital No. 3 at Hahway yesterday to find that my father died last July. woman whom we knew as a friend, who lived in Decatur Street, had ropresented herself as a blood re- lation and had had a lawyer living in her home appointed as administra- tion, They have collected the rents, the $400 insurance and have sold the Personal property worth $600, The children are in a public orphanage. I can get no accounting. I think they thought both myself and my brother were not coming back from France, when they heard. we were seriously wo' Philip Fein appeared to cors roborate the soldier's story. Walter S. Kennedy, Assistant Corporation Counsel for the Committee, sum- moned a representative of the allered administrator, who defied the Com- mittee on the ground that the matter had nothing to do with rent profiteer- ing. Commissioner Hirschberg sald that the fact that the Fidlow chil- dren, though proper heirs to a home, were homeless, was pertinent. George C. Norton of the Sub-Committee on Law was appointed to estigate the whole matter and advise as to actign to be taken NEED AD OF LAM TOG BARONS Neither. Statute Nor License Now Forbids Unjust Dis- tribution of Supply. By Sophie Irene Loeb. The following is the itemized cost of one quart of Grade B milk in the largest Quid milk concern, from the time it leaves the farm until it half @ cent profit on a quart of milk the dealer figures that it costs hint | credence in the reports that Villa has ebandoned bis offensive to the north. generals nearly 8 cents a quart to do it. | I went over a large portion of the | milk territory in New York State near New York City, and followed the process of the milk from the time it leaves the farmer, through the pasteurizing process, its arrival at the freight terminals in Weehawken, Jersey City and Hoboken, the truck- ing thence to the city, until it is dis- tributed in wagons. ‘And the above figures are the cal- these steps by the corporation. COMPANIES Wik PRICES IF WAY 18 FOUND. The largest company claims that if these costs can be reduced in any wi hey will be glad to reduce the price of milk to the consumer, but, according to them, these costs are Practically insurmountable and are necessarily fixed charges on every rt of milk, as nearly as fluctua- tions in quantity can be computed. These figures, however, relate only to fluid milk. As already stated in these columns, more than half of the milk produced in this State goes into the condenseries and evaporating plants and other by-products manu- facturing concerns. Nearly all of the fuld milk selling corporations operate condenseries and by-product enterprises, which se take care of the milk, Yet the profits of none of these by-products are figured in connec- tion with the sale of fluid milk, but as entirely distinct operations of the milk industry, According to the present milk licenses, there is no provision by which these by-productd shall be taken into consideration with the fluid milk, which would naturally reduce the cost of fluid milk to the consum Neither is any statute in force to- day by which @ proper apportionment is made of the milk production of this State that would insure a low-price milk service first, and then the by- products made of the “surplus,” So that it is entirely optional with any person or corporation going into the milk business to do whatever he pleases with the milk production of al? this State, regardless of whether suf- ficient milk, even for health purposes, is made avallabie to the consumer. In other words, there ie no com- pulsion or check placed anywhere in ‘ho milk industry, and if sufficient funds were available the entire milk roduction of this State could be used for manufacturing purposes, without any protection to the consumer, POLICETRY TOSUPPRESS NEWS OF FATAL STABBING “Investigating” Attack That Caused Death of Man After Brooklyn Block Party. When George Martin, thirty-six years old, of No, 105 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, died to-day at the Greenpoint Hospital from stab wounds in the abdomen, an- other effort on the part of the police to suppress news of crime failed, Before Martin died he told the hospital nurses that on the night of June 12 be attended a block party at Driggs Ave- nue, near Kingsland Avenue, At mid- night, he said, he started home. He was held up, but knocked his assailant's revolver away. They grappled, he sald, and Martin received three stab wounds in the abdomen. He gave 4 descrintion of the man who stal him and, it is sald, the police are “invei ting.”* Leave ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS they had received previous notice of the increase, and the Commissioner told bim to do so, S. S. “MANDA Special Trips SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1919 New York to Atlantic Highlands, N. J. SCHEDULE Leave NEW YORK, Battery Landin, RETURNING FARE 40 CENTS EACH WAY Regular Daily Trips Begin Wednesday, June 25, 1919 L , AY 30 A. M., 1.30 and 8.00 P. M. 11,00 A, M., 5.00 and 9.45 P. M. yrs , URDAY, JUNE 21, 1919. MILK CONSUMERS (WATCHFUL WAITIN War. Department Plans Puni- developments along the pouthern ber der and within Mexico (tseif, it was one-half cent ® protection of the border through the | creation of @ neutral sone south of In other words, tn order to make the | Pay tes cone culations made as to each one ot ot 160,000 and its decreased REDUCE ome of the high | ' Profusely Illustrated and Containing Eighty Pages, Including Nine | Bit Detective Cassasa Cleans Up Puzzling Theft Case in Real Old-Time Style, Detective Frank Cassasa, who bossed the pickpocket Stoner Wootls and POLICY IN MEX SCARDEDBY LS squad under Commis- Brazilian Party Leaves: Washington to Call on. U ‘The pretty twenty-year-old 4 ter of Dr, Epitacio Pessoa, elect of Brasil, Imperator yesterday, after taken off a disabled French im mid-ocean, wants to see tl tive Expedition Should Villa Insist on Reprisal. WASHINGTON, June %1—Recent A i j Hi i ith HH iy iy k tk fi jenkins and @ cigit store rough thousands of cards aithary Obeervers here place little get posted on the new styles, to ride on @ bus and your too." Dr. Pessoa, his wife and left at 8.45 o'clock to-day for rman, |{2ston, aboard a special train. lo, | Will arrive at 2 P.M. Dr. Pessom 0 directly to the White make an informal call. Although three Federal Fighters’ Flewers for Mrs. Booth. Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, “little Mother of the overseas fo ceived an ovation and a lot of vat f by the doubtful loyalty of Sei gailor sdinirerse in, Amater- night. the West before returning to on the U, 8. battleship Idaho, SIXTH AVENUE CORNER I9%'SE We Place on Sale Monday At Most. Attractive Prices . 800 Pairs 320 Pairs 420 Pairs Women’s White Duck Men’s Oxfords Women’s Boots Low Shoes Shell Cord dma- . 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