| Show CHARGED WITH AWFUl M A Wilkins of Oakland Cal Accused of Killing Wife Now in Custody San Francisco Nov o 23 The police of ot Oakland today unearthed a most dia din diabolical diabolical crime and have taken into custody M I A Wilkins a stationary engineer and an will charge him with the murder of his wife whose remains were found burled buried in quicklime underneath a shed In the yard of f the Wilkins home in Elmhurst a sub suburb suburb urb of Oakland Mrs Wilkins has not been seen around her home by the neighbors for several days das It was known that she was soon to give birth to a child and inquiries re regarding regarding regarding garding her whereabouts by the neighbors elicited the he response from Wilkins that she had gone to the home of her parents in the east Suspicion Aroused A friend of ol the death dead dea woman Mrs S J if M MAnderson I Anderson of San Francisco had been staying at the Wilkins home during the th past few days and now asserts that Wit VII Wilkins kins klus had endeavored to induce her to leave her husband and go away awa with him Her TIer ns became aroused and last nights night nigh in a dream she saw the body of her for former former mer friend lying on the ground with the arms crossed over the breast She came cameto cameto cameto to San Francisco and told her husband hUBband of the strange incident and this morning the two went to the chief of ohice of Oak Oakland Oakland Oakland land and told the story stor The case was given into the hands of Sheriff Barnet of Alameda county and with Detective DWight Kyle of Oakland he went to th the home of the Wilkins in Elmhurst and found the body In a trench under an ol oU i carpet in the shed It was lying just as described by Mrs Anderson with the hands folded across the breast br ast Husband Arrested Wilkins lIkins was taken into custody later and after being taken to the Alameda county Jail he at first said that his wife I had committed suicide Later he hI said I that she had died lied during childbirth and ami i that he had buried burled the body under the i i shed to save expense He told several j different stories and at last refused to I talk further Mrs Irs Anderson told the officers that I she site was wao awakened from the dream by i Wilkins who was standing over Oer her with witha I a knife in his hand When she asked what he meant he replied that she had hall i been talking wildly In her sleep sheep He put i I away the knife and asked her to take i ia a drink of water She sipped some of the water but did not swallow It sus SIlS suspecting suspecting that It had been poisoned This proved to be le the fact V Wilkins is J years ars of ol age and has hia ha always borne a good gool reputation He lie Is employed bv hy the firm of C C C C Moore loor fo Co o of or San Francisco He came here herewith herewith with his wife from York Pa and claims to have ha a son in Cincinnati He is a member of the th National Association of Stationary Engineers I |
