The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-10
AWAITS HANGING
/. AFTER ADMITTING
MURDER Of BRIDE
Former Lieutenant ConfeSSeS
Killing Wife and Tramp He
Induced to Stage Fake Hold
Up in Home.

Up in Home.
CHICAGO, July 1o.-Carl wanderer,
, former army lieutenant and confessed
slayer of his wife and an unidentified
| stranger. was ordered held to the grand
| jury on two charges Of murder today
| by the coroner's jury.
| The motive for the murders first
| given by Wanderer as n desire to go
back into the army. free from marital
| ties, 1t was revealed. according to the
police, that he wished to inherit her
estate and did not intend 10 rob her.
| Wanderer. the police declared signed
his confession OF the shooting after
| cody reading over the stenographic
| copies of his oral statement He stat
talking and he was waiting for the
hanging" according to officers.
Wanderer was taken to Detention
| Home No. l. where heavy guard was
on his part to either escape or harm
| himself
| In his confession, police said. Wan
derer declared that he had deliberately
shot to death his bride OF few months
| and that he also shot an unwilling vic
| tim OF his planning. man, unafmed,
| whom he enticed to his home so he
| could kin him and then accuse him OF
| having tried to rob him and his wife,
who In two months would have become
| a mother
The unidentified man said to have
been induced by Wanderer to pose as
a robber and then slain, was partly
identified as William North, who in 1911
or 1912, was employed by the Gentry
Brothers circus while in South Bend.
made by T., Pryor, formerly a circus
employee.
Another "a hours of evasion on Wan
derer's part and he probably would have
been free of the opportunities OF the
police. 1t was declared today at police
Headquarters They had held him with e
out charge and obtained a confession.
| police officials said. just in time 10
avoid a writ OF habeas corpus or an ar
rangement for bonds.
Gold Blooded Crime"
we shall go before the grand Jury
Monday and ask his indictment On q
| charge of murder" States Attorney
Hoyne said today, 1T is one 81 the
most cold blooded and revolving crimes
| in Chicagos history. We shah ask an
immediate trial and the rope"
| Il want to be hanged" Wan icr3r is
credited with saying. Il hope T. join
her in death. wonder II abe will Tor
give me Well, | loved ner too mlt h
to let another man get her. But DIDN'T
want her myself"
Wanderer declared he did not wish
to desert his wife and join the army,
but wished to be free, police said
| He was moved from the cell he oc-
cupied in the detention home yester-
| day tc the death CELL from which
several murderers have gone to their
fate. Samuel Cardinelli. one of the Is
men under sentence, was its latest oc-
cupant,
now, with that off my chest he is
| reported to have said. 81 had dreams
and the picture OF the hallway with my
| wife lying there came back once in a
while. | feel like a new man and I'm
ready to kick off whenever they want
| to take me-"
One OF the anomalies Of the case
which the police said misled them for
| weeks was the romance OF the couple
and their apparent happy married life.
| Carl, who had never smoked chewed
| or drank, had but one love affair, the
| one with Ruth johnson. who became
| his wife at the conclusion of a wal
| romance.
She was the only girl ever kissed, "
he told the police.
He took her to church every Sunday.
| They married after tho ex-lieutenant
| returned from France.
! The family Of his murdered wife are
| still steadfast in expressing their re.
luctance TO believe Wanderers confess
sion.
| I've got to hear 1t from his own
| -
said Ruth's brother, Carl Johnson "Ilt
go down TO see him today and then IL
| ask him"
Wanderer refused to let his mother
| he notified
Offers Tramp Job.
The story of how the ragged stranger
was hired to be the unwilling victim in
| the double murder was told by Wan
derer in the same cold blooded unemo-
tional way he related the details OF his
| wife's death
He picked up the man by Offering
| him job as truck driver. An APP
| potntment was made for that evening
| Wanderer told him he wanted the man
to follow Mrs Wanderer into the
apartment house when they returned
| from a movie show that evening and
stage a fake holdup The stranger
agreed
! Wanderer returned home and dined
with his wife and mother law. Then
| he took Mrs Wanderer to the movie to
see one Of Jack London's most exciting
| adventure tales
| Wanderer had the two guns in his
pocket, both loaded. When they re-
| played his part as directed, and was
met with a stream of lead
! Wanderer then turned on his wife and
shot her twice She died within five
minutes Her only words were The
| baby" The child was expected in two
months.
when witnesses arrived the ragged
| stranger was on the floor, shot In a
half dozen places and Wanderer was
sitting astride his chest beating the
dead mans face.