Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-08-24
PETER WEHRLEY MURDERED.
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the house by the back door, which he
again bOlted.
He had then remained in the sit
ting room until he heard the return
of the automobile containing his par
ents and uncle, when he had slipped
upstairs and hidden under the bed of
his parents. AS nearly as he could
determine this was about o'clock.
He heard the party talking and
laughing, but did not know his uncle
John was in the party, nor could he
distinguish all that was said.
He was still under the bed when
his mother came to the room to
retire, and he says that when he
saw her kneel in prayer at the side
of the bed, had it been possible for
him to have gotten away without de-
lection, he would have made his es-
cape. Shortly after the other men,
bers of the family retired and then
his father came to the room and went
to bed. He lay there for long time
waiting for his father to go to sleep
and endeavoring to nerve himself to
the job he had undertaken.
About one O'Clock he crawled from
under the bed from the side upon
which his father was sleeping, and
says that in doing so his father was
aroused and sat up in bed and then he
pointed the gun at him and shot.
He then ran down stairs, unbOlted
the back door, made his escape to the
alley in the rear and ran east as far
as the st. Paul railroad tracks, run
ming as fast as he could, and cOntinu-
ing his flight south as far as the new
street that connects with the roadway
crossing StrOllers bridge; that he had
run down this street as far as the
river and had then thrown the revol-
yer as far out into the river as possible.
He had then followed the North
Western tracks as far as Fourth
street on the fiat, and had taken
Fourth street up the hill and gone
then to his room.
At some places in his confession his
statements do not tally with the case
as outlined by the police, but this
discrepancy may in a measure be due
to the fact that Alfred was too eXcit-
ed to remember all the details cor
rectly.
1t is not thought that the shooting
took place from the rear of the bed,
the course of the bullet indicating to
the contrary, nor is it likely that one
contemplating quick get away,
would have taken greater chances
than necessary and have made it nee
essary for himself to run around two
sides of the bed through a narrow
passage.
The police discredit his story of
having thrown the revolver in the
river. They are reasonably certain
that he did not go as far south as he
claimed to have gone, and they feel
llldO AI6 SSCIGOcQ lll6 I6NOlN6E SOm6-
where where if he regained his lib
erty he might have access to it.
One of the Milwaukee private de-
tective agencies, in the hope of secur-
ing little free advertising, appar-
emily reSOrted to the same dodge tried
by the same agency on a former &C.
casion. and had inspired reports
printed in the Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin, setting forth the fact that
the arrest had been made 10y one of |
their men aud the confession secured !
by him. The facts of the matter are !
that this agency had no man on this !
job; that the case was worked up by
Chief Malone, Detective Henry |
SchwiSter, District Attorney German, |
P2trolman Martin and the other local |
police officers. The confession was
secured by John Wehrley, the uncle,
repeated in the presence of Chief
Malone and then written out by AL !
fred in the presence of these two and
the district attorney.