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Show HUSBAND HAS WIFE SLASH SI FAKE HOW Such Is Charge Made Against S. F. Man, After Alleged Confession SAX FRANCISCO. Califj. July 16. Henry Wilkens was arrested Friday, charged with the murdcrlof his wife. Anna Wtlkens, OS the resujlt of a statement, state-ment, alleged to hae bten made by Ar i m Castor u Disltr ct Attorney B .' and polh .soman (Catherine Ot'onnor. it was announ:cd today by i M Golden, i hlef deputy district at-torney, at-torney, after Wllkona ba( been lodged in jail liere Mrp. X"illens was shot and killed the nipht of May 30. supposedly sup-posedly by one of three highwaymen in an attempted holdup Arthur Castor Cas-tor held in Jail hen on cliarge of passing pass-ing worthless checks is sld to be one of the highwaymen. ! Kl BOIdUP sl'AGKD. According to Cantor's purported SI ment, he and his brother. Valter, had arranged with Wilkens to stage a fake holdup of the Wilkens' automobile automo-bile The Castors, it is claimed by the police, were to have robbed WJ kens of v. hat money he had and Mrs WUk-cn.s WUk-cn.s of her Jewelry. 1 The holdup, Arthur Castor is aaid to have declared, was staged as planned plan-ned with Walter Castor wielding the revolver in the holdup according to the reputed confession, a shot was fired, fir-ed, but Arthur Castor Is said to have denied that he know who fired it. his brother, Walter, or Wilkens. U ALLKT TAKEN in the robbery, Arthur is reported to have said Walter Castor took a wallet from Wilkens After th- holdup, hold-up, continued th.- statement, the pair drove back into the city the "next morning Walter complained that i Wilkens had double crossed him that th.C wallet was empty and that Mrs. Wilkens had worn no Jewelry. Then. Arthur Castor is :;,id to "have explained, he and his brother went to .the Wilkens' home, where Wilkens BaVC them three $100 bills. Two $100 bills were found on the I Castors when they were arrested thQ day following the shooting of Mrs. Wilkens. The brothers later wcro I turned loose because, of Insufficient evidence ncainst them Wilkens claim. i ed that he had been robbed of three ?100 bills f tho holdup in which his i Wll'o v. as slain. BANDITS STOP C.U t . According to the story told to the police by Wilkens at the time of the shooting be and his wife, with their two small children, were motoring along ; residence aire, r m San Fran cfscb when another car crowded their automobile over to the curb and forced forc-ed him to ntop. Then. Wilkens claimed.. claim-ed.. Hup. bandits held him u at the , point of pistol and robbed hlin of .three 1 100 'nils. one of the bandits , then reached for his wife's Jewelry "Wilkens! said, whereupon he attempted attempt-ed to pull s revolver which he arned I In 11 P-Ockel In the automobile's door. . The bandit swung his gun to cover Wllk. .ns ano .Mr-. Wilkens threw her-iHctf her-iHctf In front of her husband Just iu time to receive ;h. bullet. In her heart. Vvilken's asserted, Klrt Wilkens died ion the way to the hospital. Walter Castor n believed to be somewhere near Eureka, Calif |