Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-10
W0ULDbE FREE"
WANDERER SAYS,
FOR KILLING WIFE
Ex-Army Officers Confession
at Chicago Awaits Action
by Grand Jury.


CHICAGO. July 1O.-Formal charges
OF murder were prepared today by
States Attorney Maclay Hoyne to be
preferred against Carl Wanderer. VINO
confessed last night to the killing
of his wife and tramp.
The motive for the murders W as hrSt
given by Wanderer as desire 10 go
back into the Army, free from mari
tai ties. 1t was later revealed, aC-
cording to the police, that he wished
TO inherit her estate and did not IN
tend to rob her.
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 man. unarmed- whom ne
enticed there so he could XIII Nun
and then accuse him of having tried
to rob him and his Wife. who. in two
months. would have become mo- heH-
The unidentified man used by w an
6erer to pose as a robber and thea
slain was partly identified as Will
liam Noeth, who in 1911. or 1872 was
employed by the Gentry Brothers
circus while in South Bend. Ind
Case Goes TO Grand Jury.
1--WE shall go before the grand jury
and ask his Indictment on charee
of murder," States Attorney Hoyne
blooded and revolving crimes In Chl-
Cages history. We shall ask an I'M
mediate trial and the rope.
81 want to be hanged, Wanderer
commented. Il hope to join her IN
death. / wonder if she Will forgive
me. Well / loved her too much to
let another man get her. But L dian |
want her myself
Wanderer said that 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-
day to the death CELL from Whlch
several murderers have gone to their
fate.
"I like the cell all right. but l car
rest on these boards" he decla u
"'Get my blankets from my old ce "
This was done.
Believes He Will asleep Better
He continued:
81 certainly will sleep much better
now j feel better with that off my
. chest. 1 had bad dreams. and the pic
ture of the hallway with my wife ly-
ing there came back once in awhile.
feel like a new man and m READY
to kick off whenever they want 10
take me-"
One of the anomalies of the case
which misled the police for weeks was
the romance of the couple and Their
supposedly happy married life. Wan
derer. 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 l ever
kissed" he told the police. He took
her to church every Sunday. They
married after the ex-lieutenant re-
turned from France.
COld-BlOoded and Unconditional.
Wanderers story of how the ragged
stranger was hired to be the unwill
ing victim in the double murder was
told by him in the same cold-blooded,
Unconditional way he related the de-
tails of his wife's death.
He picked up the-man on the West
Side on the day of the murder by Of
fcring him job as truck driver. An
appointment was made for that even
ing. When the stranger came Wan
derer told him that he wanted him to
follow Mrs. Wanderer into the apart
ment house and stage a fake hold-up.
When Wanderer and h g wife returned
from the theater the stranger played