The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
THE STRANGE CASE
OF CARL WANDERER
DIDN'T LOVE WIFE, BUT DIDN'T
WANT ANYBODY ELSE TO
HAVE HER, SO HE SHOT HER.
HE HAD TIRED OF HER
Man Who Never Smoked or Chewed
or Drank Went About Deed of
Killing Two in a Cold Blooded
Way. Hired One of Victims

CHICAGO.-Carl Wanderer, for
mer army lieutenant and self-confess-
ed SLAYER of his wife and an uniden-
tilted stranger, was ordered held to
the grand jury on two charges To-
day, by the coroner's jury.
The ragged stranger killed by Carl
Wanderer was partially Identified to-
dav as AL Watson, said to be the son
of a New York millionaire turfman."
a nrevious partial identification as a
South Bend man was found to be err
roneous.
The identification was made by
Mrs. Catherine Vanos of this city,
who visited the morgue this afternoon
after reading newspaper descriptions
of the body.
Watson is said to have been a mem
Der of the Canadian expeditionary
| forces. 1t is presumed he made the
acquaintance of Lieut.. Wanderer
while in the service.
Mrs. Vanos said she met the man
in Manchester, Eng. He was at that
tinre a member of the Second Mechan-
| ical Transport Engineers, of the Cana
dian forces, and he told her he was
the son of a New York millionaire
horseman. Mrs. Vanos is an elevator
operator She accompanied several
police to the morgue, where lmme-
diately on glancing at the body, she
identified it.
Formal charges of murder were pre-
pared today by States Attorney
Hoyne to be preferred against Carl
Wanderer, who confessed last night
to the killing of his wife and tramp.
The motive for the murder was first
given by Wanderer as desire to go
back into the army, free from marital
ties. 1t was later revealed, according
to the police, that he wished to inherit
her estate and did not intend to rob
her.
Killed Two.
In his confession, police said, Wan
derer declared he had deliberately shot
to death his bride of few months
in the hallway and that he also shot
an unwilling victim of his planning,
a man unarmed, whom ne entlced
there so he could kill him and then
accuse him of having tried to rob MN
and his wife, who in two months
would have become a mother.
The unidentified man used by Wan
derer to pose as robber and then
slain. was partly identified as Will
liam Noeth, who in 1911, or 1912, was
employed by the Gentry Brothers cir
Gus while in South Bend, Ind.
"We shall go before the grand jury
and ask his Indictment on charge or
murder" States Attorney Hoyne SAID;
at is one of the most cold blooded
and revolving crimes in Chicago's his
tory. We shall ask an immediate tn
al and the rope"
81 want to be hanged" Wanderer
: commented. 81 hope to join her IN
: death. / wonder if she will forgive
: me. Well, l loved her too much to
let another man get her. But | didn't
want her myself"
Wanderer said he did not wish to
: desert his wife and join the army but
: wished to be "free."
He was moved from the cell he oc-
cupied in the detention home yester-
dav to the death cell' from which
several murderers have gone to their
Likes Death Cell.
81 like the cell all right, but l
: can't rest on these boards" he de-
: clared. :, >,
"Get nv blankets from my old cell"
: This was done. -,
He continued: 81 certainly will
Z sleep much better now. l feel better
: with that off my chest. | had bad
: dreams and the picture of the hallway
z with my wife lying there came back
. once in a while. l feel like new
: man and I'm ready to kick off when
3 ever they want to take me-
One of the anomalies of the case
which misled the police for weeks
: was the romance of the couple ana
/ their happy married life supposedly
Wanderer, who had never SMOKED,
chewed drank or INDUCED in slang
had but one love affair, the one with
Ruth johnson, who became his wife at
the conclusion of war romance.
| "She was the only girl | ever KISS
ed" he told the police. He took her
to church every Sunday. They mar
ride after the eX-heutenant returned
from France.
Cold BlOOded Manner.
| Wanderers story of how the rag
ged stranger was hired to be the I'M
Willing victim in the double murder
was told by him in the same cold
blooded, Unconditional way he related
the details of his wife's death.
H He picked up the man on the West
Side on the day of the murder by of
fering him a job as truck driver.
An appointment was made for the
evening. When the stranger came
| Wanderer told him that he wanted
him to follow Mrs. Wanderer into the
apartment house and stage a fake
hold-up. When Wanderer and his wife
returned from the theater the stran-
ger played his part, as directed, and
was met with a stream of lead.
II Wanderer then turned on his wife
and shot her twice. She died within
| five minutes Her only words were