Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-13
KILLED WIFE AS
EASIEST WAYOUT,
b SAYS WANDERER

CHICAGO, =, July 10.-Carl Wan
derer, former army lieutenant, self
confessed slayer of two persons, one
of whom was his wife, a pretty choir
singer, and the other a 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 that
of AL Watson, former Canadian SOL
dier, who was said to have told &C
uuaintances he was the only son of
a millionaire turfman living In New
York
The Identification was made by Mrs.
Catherine Vaners, Of Chicago, who
said she met Watson in Folkestone,
Eng, while he was a patient at the
Manor House hospital. New York
dispatches said the police recalled
that last May an Alexander r.. Wat
his wife. The man later was report
ed to have been found in Paterson,
N. j., but the police were ignorant
of his whereabouts.
Wanderer today placed blame for
the tragedy on his familiarity with
firearms in the army, his rowing tenn
permanent and his association with
his fathers butcher shop.
Planned Deliberately
"I planned the whole thing In cold
blood because l decided that was
the only way 1 could do it and get
away with it," he said. 1.-THE thought
of killing a person was not so re-
pugnant 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 &C.
quainted with blood that he loses his
"Then, in the army I had practiced
a great deal with firearms, and ]
learned to love the army life above
everything else in the world.
I'm addition to these things, my
name sets me forth correctly am
a Wanderer and a rover by nature.
I hate to be tied down. was not
Intended for married life. With these
influences working in my veins the
step from discomfort to what l d1o
was a short one. OF course, am
sorry for what 1 did; any sane man
would be, and I am sane, but that
doesn't help matters now.
ct loved my wife in spite or what !
have done; 1 loved her too well 70
desert her and leave her with mem
cries of a ruined romance to Keep
her company during the rest or her
Ill., Murder Easiest Way Out
"I decided the easiest way out was
to kill her. Most men after doing
that would have been sleepless ano
haunted by visions at night. was
not. I slept like a top and d1dn
have a single dream that can re-
member. It'll, a.. o+ber
chan. but I was afraid he would
snuea1 killing him did not do any
GOOD. for / did not have presence
of mind enough to remember that
those army automatics were num-
bered."
The proceedings at the inquest were
hrief onIy two witnesses testifying.
These were a detective and 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 when
were found in the hallway, Where
the shooting occurred, were produGeu;
before the grand jury on Monday.
States Attorney Hoyne said ne
would ask a 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 mao 'Sdlu He h"u ho'"
ing to add. %
Carl johnson, brother-in-law Of
Wanderer, was the only member Of
the family present at the inquest.
Both kept their eyes averted from
the other and no sign of recogn1-
ton passed between them.
Wanderer was booked on two
charges. of murder late today after
he had been ordered held to the
grand jury by coroner's jury. He
will be assigned in a ploice court
Monday.