Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-10

He gave as his reason for the Staying
that he wanted to be rid OF his wife so
he could go back to the army.
She was shortly to become a mother,
he said. and he "hated the Idea OF haT-
ing a child and other family response
bilities."
Wanderer was held to the grand jury
on the charge of wife murder.
The action was taken following a brief,
formal inquest over the body OF Mrs.
Wanderer.
Mrs Wanderers brother. Paul John
son, was the only relative OF any OF the
principals to attend the inquest
DECIDES MURDER
BEST WAY OUT.
Wanderer declares he finally decided
that murder would be the best way out OF
his situation, and so planned the crime
with the double purpose Of making 1t ap-
pear to be the result Of an attempted
robbery and so that he could pose as
hero for having killed his wife's sup
posed murderer.
His first step was to hire the uniden-
fed ne'er -do-well, who afterward be
came his victim-a ragged derelict of
the streets who, on promise OF money,
agreed to hold up Wanderer and his
wife in the vestibule Of their home on
their return from n movie theater.
He did not provide his Pseudo-con-
federate with a revolver, but on the
night of the crime carried two pistols,
one he had used in the army and the
other borrowed for the crime from his
cousin, Fred Wanderer.
u didn't want to kill my wife out
right because of her love for me- he
said.
Il wanted her to think that when she
was shot I was defending her with my
life"
TELLS WIFE HE
WANTS TO BUY HOME.
His next move was to tell his wife that
he had abandoned all idea of going back
to the army, and that he wanted to set
tie down and buy home.
In this way he induced her to draw
ST 800. their joint savings account, from
a bank and turn the money over to him.
The entire murder scheme, according to
Wanderers confession, went through ex
actly as he had planned.
Arriving in the darkened vestibule of
their home. the hired highwayman from
a corner where he could scarcely be seen,
ordered Mrs. Wanderer to fork over
that money"
An instant later spurts of flame blazed
from Wanderers two pistols, and his wife
and the man he had hired for the false
robbery fell dying to the vestibule floor.
The latter was killed almost instantly.
Then
'Are you hurt. honeyl" wanderer
called to his wife in the darkness.
Carl. I'm dying" was her reply.
ANOTHER FUSILLADE
OF BULLETS.
There was another fuslllade of bull
let's from Wanderers pistols, and a
moment later he was standing in the
vestibule with two bodies and the smok-
ing weapons in his hands.
One Of these-the one he obtained from
his cOusin-he threw beside the body Of
the supposed robber
Then he called for the pol &c and, act
ing the role of a man crushed by grief,
described to them how the fatal rob-
berry" had occurred.
His story was believed and no sus-
picion attached to him until the police,
while tracing the ownership of the pistol
found beside his victims body, discov-
cred the weapon had been bought by
Fred Wanderer.
Then the detectives took Wanderer into
custody and began questioning him.
He told no less than sixteen different
stories of the crime before the true one
came out
According to Identification established
through the Chicago American and ac-
cepted by the homicide squad and Dep
uty Coroner Davis the ragged stranger"
killed by Wanderer was Al Watson, for
mer overseas soldier in the Canadian
expeditionary forces, and the son of a
wealthy New York turflnan.