Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-11
RAGGED STRANGER
| KILLED IN CHICAGO
: KNOWN TO NURSE
Wanderers Second Victim
Identified Confessed
Murderer Held.

CHICAGO, July 10 (by the Associat-
ed Press) Carl Wanderer. former
Army lieutenant, self-confessed slayer
OF two persons. one of them his wife,
"a pretty choir singer. and the other
man with whom he had plotted to
take her life. today was ordered held
without bail on a charge of murder
by coroner's jury.
AT the same time the ragged
stranger, whose body has been I'M
claimed at the county morgue since
the night of the crime, nearly three
weeks ago, was declared to be
Al Watson. former Canadian SOL
der. who was said to have told &C
Quaintances he was the only son of a
millionaire turfman living in New
York
The Identification was made by Mrs.
Catharine Vanos of Chicago. who said
she met Watson in Folkestone, Eng
land, while he was a patient at the
Manor House Hospital. New York dis
patches said the police recalled that
last May an Alexander f. Watson
had been reported missing by his wife.
The man later was reported to have
been found in Paterson. n. j.. but the
police were ignorant of his where
,abouts.
Wanderer today placed blame for
the tragedy on his familiarity with
firearms in the Army, his rowing
his fathers butcher shop.
Planned in CoId-BIood.
81 planned the whole thing in cold
blood. because / decided that was the
only way 1 could do it and get away
with it, he said. The thought of
killing person was not so repug-
nant to me as it might be to most
persons because of my experience in
my fathers butcher shop. A man in
a butcher shop gets so closely ac-
quainted with blood that he loses his
aversion to it.
Then in the Army had practiced
great deal at target shooting and
became too well acquainted with fire
arms. and 1 learned to love the Army
life above everything else in the world
In addition to these things. my
name sets me forth correctly am
! hate to be tied down. 1 was not
intended for married life. With these
influences working in my veins the
Step from discomfort to what 1 did
was short one. OF course, am sor-
~ for what did; any sane man would
help matters now.
Loved His Wife.
Il loved my wife in spite of what
have done; 1 loved her too we'll to
desert her and leave her with MEM
cries of ruined romance to keep her
company during the rest of her life.
Il decided the easiest way out was
to kill her. Most men after doing
that would have been sleepless and
haunted by visions at night. l wasn't.
/ sleep like top and didn't have a
single dream that l can remember.
I'm sorry 1 had to kill that other
chap, but 1 was afraid he would
squeal. Killing him did not do any
good, for l did not have presence of
mind enough to remember that those
Army automatics were numbered"
The proceedings at the inquest were
brief. only two witnesses testifying.
These were a detective and a police
man. The latter told of going to the
scene of the crime the night of the
murders. The two pistols, ten empty
shells and five bullets which were
found in the hallway where the shoot
ing occurred were produced.
Wanderer probably will be taken
before the grand jury on Monday.
State Attorney Hoyle said he would
ask speedy trial. Wanderer did not
repeat his confession to the coroner's
jury, though he was present at the
inquest. Instead the coroner read the
original typed confession after
Wanderer had said he had nothing
to add.
Carl johnson, hrother-in-law of
Wanderer, was the only member OF
the family present at the inquest.
other, and no sign of recognition passed
between them.
Wanderer was booked on two
charges of murder late today after
he had been ordered held to the grand
jury by a coroner's jury. He will be
arraigned in a police court today.
TEANECK, n. j., July 10.-George
Watson, well known horseman who
owns a breeding farm here. said to-
night that his son, Alexander Wat
SON, was not the man identified in the
Wanderer case.
PATERSON, N. j.. July 10.-Poiice
investigation here of a report that the
stranger killed in Chicago by Lieut..
Carl Wanderer had been partially
identified as "Al Watson" showed,
they said tonight, that on May a
man giving the name Alexander Wat
son was arrested here. He was held
for examination as to his sanity until
May IA, when he was released in the
custody of a woman who said she was
his wife.