The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-11
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Chicago, July l0.-States Attorney
Macay Hoyne was expected today to
prefer a first degree murder charge
against Carl Wanderer, ex.army lieu,
tenant. who confessed last night TO
the killing Of his wife and tramp.
The motive for the murder first
was given by Wanderer az a desire
to go back into the army, free from
marital ties. 1t was revealed, ac-
cording to the police, that he wished
to inherit her estate and did not
intend to rob her.
Wanderer, police declared, signed
his confession OF the shooting after
coolly reading over the stenographic
copies of his oral statement. He
stated calmly today that he was
through talking and he was waiting
for the hanging" according to Off
GERS.
Wanderer was taken to detention
home No. /, where a heavy guard
was placed over him to prevent any
or harm himself
In his confession, police said, Wan.
derer declared he had deliberately
shot to death his bride Of a few
months, and that he also shot an
unwilling victim Of his planning a
man, unarmed whom he enticed to
his home 80 he could kill 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 Wy Wanderer to pose
az a robber and then be slain was
partly identified as William North,
who in 1911 or 1912 was employed
by the Gentry Brothers circus. while
in South Bend, Ind. The partial iden-
tification was made by +. Pryor,
formerly a circus employe.
Another "a hours Of evasion on
Wanderers part and he would have
in all probability been free OF the
opportunities of the police. it was
declared today at police heldquar
ters. They had held him withoo'
charge and obtained confession, po
lice officials said, jest in time TO avoid
writ of habeas corpus or an ar
raigrment for bonds.
I'VE shall go before the grand
| jury Monday and ask his indictment
on a charge of murder" States AT
torney Hoyne said today. 1T Is one
Of the most cold d-blooded and revolving
crimes in Chicagos history. We shall
ask an immediate trial and the rope
II want to be hanged" WanGerei
is credited with saying. II hope, tt
Join her in death. l wonder If she
will forgive me. Well, / loved hel
too much to let another man get her
but | didn't want her myself"
Wanderer declared that he did NO
wish to desert his wife and join thi
army, but wished to be Free" policf
said
He was moved from the cell m
occupied in the detention ~i,nA yes
terday to the death cell' from which
fate Samuel Cardinelli, one Of tn
Is men under sentence, was its las
occupant.
IT certainly will sleep much bette
now, with that off my chest" he
reported to have said. Il had dream!
and the picture of the hallway witt
my wife lying there came back onc'
in a while. ] feel like new mai
and I'm ready to kick Off wheneve
they want to take me-"
One Of he anomalies of the case
which the police said misled then
for weeks was the romance of TIT
couple and their apparent happy mar
ried life. Carl, who had never smoked
chewed, or drank. had but one low
affair, the one with Ruth johnson
who became mis- wife at the conclu
sicn of n war romance.
"She was the only girl 1 ever kiss
cd he told the police. He tool
her to church every Sunday. The.
married after the ex-lieutenant re
turned from France. The family
the murdered wife are still steadfas
in expressing their reluctance to De
live Wanderers confession.
T've got to hear it from his owl
lips, before I will know what L
think" said Ruth's brother, Carl John
son. "I'll go down to see him toda.
and then III ask him.
Wanderer would not allow his moth
er to be notified.
A story Of how the ragged strange
was hired to be the unwilling vic
tim in the double murder, was toll
by Wanderer in the same cold-blooded
emotional way he related the detail
of his wifes death.
He picked up the man by offerin
him a Job as truck driver. An ap
pointment was made for that even
ing. Wanderer told him he wnnte
the man to follow Mrs. Wanderer' int
the apartment house when they RI
turned from q movie show, that ever
ing, and stage a fake holdup. tn
stranger agreed.
Wanderer returned home and dine
with his wife and mother-in-law. The
he took Mrs. Wanderer to the now
to see one of Jack London's mos
exciting adventure tales.
Wanderer had the two guns in nj
pocket, both loaded. When they re
turned from the theatre, the strange
played his part as directed. and wa
met with stream Of lead. Wandere
then turned on his wife and shot he
twice. She died within five minutes
Her only words were, "the baby" TIL
child was expected in two months.
When witnesses arrived, the fagge
stranger was on the floor. shot II
half dozen places and Wandere
was sitting astride his chest. beatinl
the dead mans face.