The Washington times., 1920-07-14
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|. DR|PPED LOVE
Police ,stt Wanderers Letters
TO Girl Friends for Crime
Motive.

CHICAGO, July If-Police today
are sitting the correspondents OF carr
Wanderer, former army Lieutenant
charged with shooting to death MS
young wife. Ruti, and an unidentified
stranger he had hired TO take psrt
In a fake robbery, in the yestibule OF
their apartment here, on June II.
From Wanderers letters ana from
his friends, police say, they learned
that he had many friendships win
girls, some OF which ran concurrently
with his married life.
Among them appeared the name OF
LirI Icc Horne. a girl whom ne knew
before his marriage, according TO his
sisters. Mrs. Hattie Rotsh and Laura
NWanderer. and Pearl c. Pearson
cousin. They told, police Miss Horne
may be able to shed some light on
the case. Mrs. Rotoh saidt
II believe Carl Is insane. our
mother killed herself after having
been insane for six years. and Carl
once tried to throw himself from
fire-escape while confined there with
SC carlet fever. He must have been out
OF his mind when he killed Ruth, but
THIS is no reason why he should not
pay the penalty
Among the letters found by the po-
lico was one OF a puzzling nature
CieaIing terms.
MOTHER DREAMED HIM HANGED.
The relatives of Wanderer arc pre-
pairing a defense of insanity for him.
He says he will make no defense,
as he wants to hang and get it
over with. His sister, Mrs. Roth, says
yesterday that her mother, six years
ago, cut her throat with a pair OF
shears after a wild dream in which
she saw her son Carl hanging by
the neck,
1T has come out the way mother
dreamed 1t would" she said. can
never forget the terrible night tho
dream came and how II drove her TO
kill herself: When l look back on
that morning it seems that ! sec
death, in her eyes. 1t is hard. to be-
lieve your own brother would do the
| thing he has confessed doing" said
Mrs. Roth, but il il Is true. the fact
that he 10 my brother doesn't make
| any difference in what l think OF
the case. He should be hanged"
Wanderers AFFAIR with seventeen
year-old Miss Schmidt is considered
an innocent incident. His greed for
money is displayed in repeated com
plants about the $50 in taxicab fares
she cost him. Alienists have exam
OF the Schmitt girl Wanderer said:
"Why, never took that little kid
seriously. l. took her to Riverview
once or twice, but she didn't know
was married What was the differ
ence? tell you, she meant nothing
to me. What a sucker l was. Just
| think of all the money I spent on that
girl For taxicab rides, too. Say, it
amounted to $50. That's $40 a ride.
/ II cost me as much as the bonus / got
frorilIhe army .
THROUGH WITH MEN.
. Il didn't know he was married" the
girl says. 81 didn't know great
deaf about him. except that he had
been an army officer and seemed like
a nice young man. When he took me
home he called me sweetheart and
he kissed me. After that I saw him
three or four times. He seemed so
good and talked so pleasantly that
got to like him better. / am through
with men,"
The identity of the man he led to
slaughter is again doubtful. J. j.
Maloney, of Pontiac, r. l.. is reported
forty years old. The dead man is not
more than twenty-five and is smaller
than Maloney..