The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1919, Page 3

EXPERT TESTIFIES DR. WILKINS WROTE DATE ON NEW WILL — Dr. David N. Carvalho Exam- ines Document Leaving Property to Prisoner. NEW STORY OF WATCH. } Witness Says Aged Doctor Told Him Robbers Got Gold Timepiece. tram 6. Stall Comempondaut of The Prening Work.) MINBOLA, L. I, June 23.—The af- ternoon session to-day of the trial of the venerable Dr. Walter K. Wil- for wife murder was taken up mere kins in the eross-examination of Allen Mcvers, private detective. There no such pyrotechnies between he lawyer and witness as were occa- sioned by the cross-examination of Meyers's chief, William J, Burns, ist Friday. Once Mr. Wysong confronted ers with an automobile bill 1inst Nassau County for $12 on March 12. For a moment Meyers sould not account for it. . Then he emembered that his chief had hired car that day to attend the autopsy at the Lutheran Cemetery. Mr. Wysong wanted to know if the county paid Meyers's bills in the hotels at the beach and throughout the county. “Yes,” sald the detective. “With the approval of the District Attor- ney.” David N, Carvatho, the harid-writs ng expert was called. It had been supposed he was to testify regarding the writing in the register of the Hotel Joyoe. Instead the 1915 will of Mrs. Wilkins which Is incomplete, but which left much oroperty to Dr. Wilkins. He declared he date in the 1915 will, Oct. 20, was in the writing of Dr. Wilkins, though the defenedant said he had never seen the document before March 4 last. For fifteen minutes earlier in the any there was no word of question or testimony while Allen Meyers, a private detective employed by Nassau County, worked out @ pieced together puzzle of torn bits of newspaper. ‘These were exhibits shown at vari- ous times during the trial. Some of the pieces were picked up in the yard of the Wilkins cottage at Long Beach, where Mra. Wilkins was beaten to death on the garage walk with a machinist’s hammer and a he examined | The Short Route to Slumberland! length of heavy 3-inch lead pipe. Other pieces of the paper had been found wrapped about the hamtier or stuffed into the pipe. There were still other pieces which had been found in the upper rooms of the Wilkins cottage. As models for putting the torn newspapers together the detective used complete copies of the issues of The New York World of Oct. 4 and Oct. 25 and the Lynbrook New Era |and Malvern News of Jan. 29. A piece of beaver board nearly four feet square was spread on the Judge's desk and Meyers fitted together the various pieces of torn paper, fasten- ing the corners and margins down | with strips of gummed paper tape. Some of the bits were so saturated with blood and the margins were so | worn that they could not be put in | their places exactly. When the job was completed the | Various exhibits posted on the card- board were put under a group num- Ver as a new exhibit, LATER WILL IDENTIFIED BY, DETECTIVES. The will dated Oct. 20, 1915, which left @ substantial part of the fortune of Mrs. Wilkins to her husband, was then identified by Detective Meyers. | It is the contention of the State that this second will, which lacks the sig- nature of witnesses, has been sep- | arated, sheet from sheet, and refaste- | ened, and that it is possible the testa- ‘mentary clause and the witnesses’ signatures have been removed to make it seem invalid. Q. Did you ever ask Dr. Wilkins about this will? A. He told me he had found it March 4 in his home in West 65th Street, New York. I asked him why he had never told us about it before, He said he thought the will was valid when he found it and he took :t to Mr. Freise to be probated. Mr. Friess told him it was not valid and advised him at that time to say noth- ing about it. After Dr. Wilkins returned from Raltimore March 19, with his whiskers | shaved ‘off, he told Meyers that Law- yer Freiss had decided to show the incomplete will to the District Attor- | ney. | “I knew [ hadn't told the District Attorney the truth about thie last | will," Meyers said the doctor told him, “I know the thing looked bad for me and I decided to go away, I {didn’t want to be arrested.” | Later, according to the detective, Dr. Wilkins said he concluded it was useless for him to try to hide and he came back to give himself up. Detective Meyers identified gloves and hairpins he found in the dining room table in the Wilkins cottage two days after the murder, They were offered by the state on the theory they had Seen laid aside by Mrs. Wilkins after entering her home. The defense sticks to Dr. Wilkins'’s story XXRRN MM WRMNE MERWE ERR ORME EN KN RRR CEN WR RMR EE TN ore THE “EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE a: ’ 1919 Daughter of Gen. S. E. Wedded to J.J. Martin, Jr. To Day PED DDH RTI, ITT IIE TEI West Point, and John J. Murphy j bassy in London, were married in Miss Tillman gave her residence as 104th Street, New York, a reporter, was the first witness. GIVES NEW VERSION OF STORY OF STOLEN WATCH. The District Attorney established that Mr. Kohler was at the Lutheran Cemetery at the time of the autopsy on Mrs, Wilkins’ body, March 12. Kohler said he walked up to Dr. Wil- that (Mrs, Wilkins did not enter the cottage at all, but remained outside calling for help until one-of the burglars came out and struck her down, Benjamin Kohler of No, 2 West kins while Detective W. J. Burns was interviewing the defendant. Burns walked away and left the witness alone with the old physician. Q. What conversation did you have with him? A. He told me the burglars had taken his watoh, and I asked him about the watch he was wearing then, OSTERMOOR MATTRESS How you'll enjoy your first night’s sleep on an Oster- moor! 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The Swiss watch itself was found hidden in the Wilkins cottage In a blood-stained napkin, Mr. Wysong at once oegan an examination tending to show that this testimony had been produced at the suggestion of Allen Meyers, a de- tective of the Burns agency. Q. Did anybody meet you at the railroad station? A. I say Mr. Meyers | there and he walked over with me. “That's all," exclaimed Mr. Wy- song, triumphantly. Meyers, the next witness, was ques- | regarding his interrogation of | Dr. Wilkins while investigating the crime. Q. Did you ask him question about | his course on giving the alarm? A | Yes, I asked why he passed the army | garage and went to house for help. I cal to the fact that the garage was in plain sight, there were soldiers on | duty there, it was ablaze with light and an ambulance and a telephone wire right there. Q. What did he say? A. He said he |Just didn’t happen to think of it. | Q. How about the discovery of a | lead pipe? A. Defendant told me he let out the dog Duchess when he went out to look for his wife, A litue later he said the dog sniffed at an object in the grass. He stooped and picked up the thing and it was a lead pipe. He said he tossed it aside and his finger prints would appear on it. the Coleman ed his attention Meyers told of searching a trung in the second story of the Wilkins home March 7, He found no papers in it Several days later, he sald, he went to that same trunk with MTSS «KATHERINE TILLMAN a fe epi Tillman RRBMEERRRAA RANK ABE THE RAM eg # RH RRM RRRRN NE RR RA AKER MRR RAN RAARAX ARR RRR ARR SERIE HOH) Miss Katherine D. Tillman, daughter of Brig. Gen. 8. EB, Tillman of , an attache of the American Em- the rectory of the Church of the Holy Trinity in East 88th Street to-day by the Rev. James A. Chalmers, No. 119 East 79th Street, the home of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Dix. Gen. Tillman and a number of other offi- cers in uniform witnessed the ceremony. age of papers and took off the top paper. “Here is the will,” he said, “and handed it to Mr. Friess.” . “This is the will made in 190%," Mr, Friess said, ‘and in‘ it Mrs, Wil- kins left all her money to charity. Tt establishes the fact that Dr. Wilkins had no motive for his crime, and it is therefore not necessary to go any further as far as Dr. Wilkins is con- cerned." “I atso found a parrot's feather in the string in that box” the detective said, after repeating the story of finding twine simular to that used in the crime. Q—Did you find a similar feather elaewhere? A—Yes on about hammer. The two bits of parrot feather were duly put into evidence as ex- hibits after Justice Manning and op- posing counsel had inspected them. Teling more of the discovery of the 1903 will March 10, Meyers said he pretended he had seen the paper in the trunk when it was first the string wrapped searched. “No, you didn’t," Wilkins said, ac- cording to the witness, “You couldn't.” Then, the witness said, Lawyer Friess, with a gesture, si- lenced the defendant. A bit of paper, hammered into a pinched up end of the lead pipe ‘bludgeon, was fdentified by Meyers as torn from the New York World of Oct. 4, A piece of the same news- paper, fitting the torn edges of the fragment taken from the pipe, was found under a chair on the second floor of the cottage. After calling four witnesses to-day the State will rest its case against Dr. Wilkins, Dr, Wilkins, the defendant, is ex- pected to take the stand to-morrow. LEFT WING OF SOGIALISTS ®| Reactionaries From All Over Na- tion Meet Here to Adopt Plat- form and Outline Plans Reactionaries, or left wing f the jalists, to-day met in convention Dr. G. Friess, ‘The doctor went to the trunk,” he said, lifted the cover, “put his hand | under some clothing, drew out a pack- Wilkins and his counsel, Louis PARIS, Sunday, June 22.—The ' Steeplechase of Anteuil to-day for a stake of 100,000 fyancs was won by the Knglish horse Troy te “A record breaking throng saw the race. PLAN PARTY OF THEIR OWN irand _ HAMBY SAYS TRIAL a(S “ANOTHER STEP ON SUICIDE PATH Self-Confessed eid Bocktyn Bank Slayer Has No Doubt He Will Be Convicted. Gorton Fawcett Hamby, confessed! murderer of two mon in the East Brooklyn Savings Bank holdup last/ December, wae placed on trial to-day in the Kings County Court. | “It's another step on the road to suicide,” Hamby said as he left the! Raymond Street Jail for the court! room, Then he remarked on the co-! incidence that his middle name was) the same as the surname of the Judge trying the case, Lewis L. Fawcett. selection of the jury would be the only business of the court to-day. Up| to the hour of the midday recess five It was hoped that the jury: would be completed this afternoon, Hamby was taken from the jail to the court handcuffed to a detec- tive with an escort of four deputy sheriffs. The handeuffs were not re- moved in court, Hamby arose early, shaved, took a bath and donned the same mixed gray suit he has worn since his ar- rest, After a hearty breakfast he ex- ercised between 8.30 and 9.30 in the prison yard, walking most of the time with @ prisoner known as “Whitey.” When he returned to his cell Hamby put on a few finishing touches to his appearance. His demeanor was the same, easy and nonchalant, Out he was chewing on a toothpick, which indicated that he might be nervous, Before he left the jail Detective Bason removed the gold cuff links from Hamby’s shirt. These were the same links which Hamby says he sold to a Western jailkeeper, but which the keeper had to later return to him. Asked how he feit, ingly replied: “Oh, I feel like a circle with the rim torn off. You know life, after ali, is only @ joke and I guess the joke to-day is on me.” Hamby said he did not expect to take the witness stand, SHONTS ILL FROM PLEURISY, Hamby smil- in Serious Condition After Opera- tion for Congestion of Lungs. Theodore P. Shonts, President the Inst. Satruday, Mr, Shonts is sixty-three years old. A year ago he was operated on for some disorder, the nature of which not reported, He stood that op remarkably well and recoy ‘The steamship Northland of the East- ern Steamship (Line, which ran upon a ledge at the entrance to Buzzards Bay in @ heavy fog last Saturday morning, while bound for Boston with freigh 3) passengers and brought to New York tugs and taken to dock of Tietyen & 1 —_ Sims Gets D: MEDFORD, Mass. | Admiral William Calvin Coolidge |honorary degree |the comm College to-day New York, w of Doctor of § ee From Tufts, June 2 Sims Methodint Exp ‘Afviean Day’ COLUMBL oO. June = 3.—Th |+Queen of Sheba” was to tend th |apectacular pageant at the Methodis Centenary Exposition to-day, which was |known as African Day | at No. 122 Second Avenue. There were three delegates {rom each Stat | and it was said they planned to break | e e cows tom te meses ote satel) Children Can Drink Party to start an organization of their 1 r m Ms ce ck Wale pesnicat es ast | as many Cupfuls & platform and elect radicals to leader- | ship and then spread their doctrine of propaganda by placing in all the shops ke ee a There's no harm in Ajexander Trachtob well known jen, came eie ac nee. Sane Postum— no dru meeting. h t h d ihsiaemser to hurt them an Troytown W: 100,000 Fr “There's Confessed Slayer of Bank Clerks As He Appeared in Court To-Day Tt soon became apparent that the. jurors wad peen tentatively accepted, THREE DOCTORS ATTEND HIM President of Interborough Reported of Interborough Rapid Transit Com- after-regrets. “MISUNDERSTOOD” MAN'S LETTER IS CLUE 10 SUICIDE Fears Even Death Will Be Seen in Wrong Light, He Writes in Farewell Note. NEWARKK, N. J., June 23.—A note published in a Paterson paper, writ- ten by a man who announced he was going to commit suicide because he was misunderstood by every one on earth, may, lead to the identification of the man who shot and killed him- self at Weequahic Park yesterday. Before cimmitting suicide the man soon, being entrusted with bringing of « request to Benedict asking that.an pendent Cxsecho-Slovak archate be established, ¥ Czech language be used in & vice instead of Latin and that Priests be tted to marry. © More than FRANK L. POLK IS RAMED WASHINGTON, Jone 13.4-Prank Polk of New York, bcounseiidr’ of State Department ahd now’ Acting: retary of State, was nofiiinated by Preaidert Wilson to be U tary of State, a new office created the 1920 Legislative, Executive and Sue dicial Appropriation Bill passed by” last Congress. Other nominations sent to the ‘Senate by the President h ‘to be Envoy Extrgordinary and ter Plenipotentiary . to (Para, B, Gonzales of South Carotina. To be Envoys Extraardinaty “> Isters Plenipotentiary, Boax New Mexico to Cabs; Benton of Tennessee to Guatemala. Frank Re Nebecker of Salt City to-day was ppointed an ant Attorney General by At Gengral Palmer, ite swat a PREFERS CATS TO HUBBY; HE'LL SEEK NEW HOME NEWARK, N, J., June %—Insisting that he couldn't sleep with his wife's cats Harry. Wells, thirty-nine year old of 155 Washington Street, was advised to-day by Police Judge Quigley to seek another home. Welle was ar- ‘The nomination of sroreed B, Okishome Clty, to De an au ‘anal 1 was ed reported to-day bY She ‘Senate In court |cjary Committee. to-day, Mra. Welle said she did not want to push the charge, “She has two cata in bed with her every night," Wells ‘told the Judgp, charge of assault and battery. and she replied that she would the oat “Well,” said the Judge to Wells. We ds Heres gy think you had better get yourself ale Do you want to get rid of your hus-| other Nome.” “4 band?” the Judge asked Mrs, Wells,| ‘Thank you, Judge,” said Wells, 5 had removed all marks of {dentificca- tion from his clothing. He wore a blue sult with a fine white stripe, brown shirt, straw hat and tan shoes, He was 6 feet 8 inches in height, weighed about 180 pounds and was about forty years old, The letter reads: “To be misunderstood seems to have been my lot all through life and, now that life is over, I presume pany, 1s under the care of three phy-|T will be misunderstood in death. sicians at his home, No, 930 Park Ave-| As I look over the past there is very nue, He was operated on last ntght)iittle that I have to regret. very lit- by Dr. John F, Erdmann of No. 60/t16 that I would not do over again, Wert 52d Street to relleve severe con-/ 41111 1 nave been denounced times gestion of the lungs as @ result of an|~ — a , attack of pleurisy which he sufferod| Without number for the past and by one whom I loved, At Mr. *Shonts's office, No. 165] “Perhaps now that I have passed Broadway, it was said to-day that the}away the deeds of the past may be attack was very slight, but at his!seen through a purifying glass that ery ad reported he is in @ bad) wii] make them seem better to those condition. who ca d in the times gone by. We sometimes are forced to die in order chat our memory might live. I have neither the love nor the affection for life that I know should be mine, left as I have been by God with a large family, But oh, the heartache, the throbbing brain, the ever pres- ent thought; What is the use to try and continue? You are wrong, wrong, always wrong! “No ono must be blamed for my death but myself. 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