The Lake County times., 1921-09-30
MURDERER
PAYS LAST
PENAL TY
Mother Had Seen Him In Dream
bangle From Nooses
Knot
BIT WILLIAM K HUTCHINSON

RY WILLIAM K HUTCHINSON
TsrAFF CORRESPONDENT l. N. sERVlcEI
CHICAGO, Sept. S0-Carl O. Wand
erer. arch murderer. was hanged here
today with song on his lips.
wanderer, slayer of his wife. unborn
child and a ragged stranger during d
fake holdup, paid in full for the muir
der of the poor boob" He went TO
his death. singing song IN a harsh
tremulous voice, TO the woman whose
life he snuffed out more than year
ago. His song trailed on into silence
as the death cap" was dropped over
his head.
ASKS MERCY ON his SOUL
-rors have mercy upon my soul
the condemned man repeated after a
minister as he walked on the scanold'
Father. into your hands, I commend
Nv snirtt God have mercy upon me
As he began the march to the gai-
Lows Wanderer again confessed u
r.,1ar peter Lawrence. the 5ailor said
80, he had killed his wife and the
ragged stranger" Throughout all oi
his hght TO escape the galiows wand
arer had insisted he was not guiity OIL
,be murders, repudiating carrier con
fessions.
4 moment later, w'hen asked for his
last word. he broke forth into song
II was "Old Pal. Old CAL and he sans
= !, voice that sent shivers down
the backs of the death" audience.
"o1d pal, old gal, are you thersa
I'm all alone.
.old pal, old gal, I'm just ons roll
ing stone" ne sang
shadows come through the weary
night, always find me near,
II crave for you, old PAL old GAL
why don't you answer rnes
"old pal, old gal"
And the shroud ended his song.
DIES IN EIGHT MINUTES
When the trap door was sprung
wanderer's body dropped through with
a. Jerk. bounding back two feet
ia3ler grabbed the twisting form. Eight
minutes later, he was pronounced dead
and the murder Of the poor boob
was vindicated.
On his last night. Wanderer sang
m. song after another. He prayed
fraouentlv with the prison priest His
songs ranged from Rock of Ages and
Nearer My God To Thee" to his fav-
orite. aOld Pal. Old CAL" and other
popular songs
seven years ago. woman awoke
lust before dawn screaming at an ap-
nar,tion of a dream filled mind She
v,stoned her son dangling from the end
of a moose. She wac Wanderers mo-
ther.
NV boy Carl they are hanging him
sba shrieked He is hanging. MY
CsoAl I'll kill myself before I live
to see them hang my Carl
MOTHER KILLS HERSELF
sn. shot herself to death that day
c>razed by the apparition OF her dream
szte ruled that her vision OF seven
,ears ago should come true today.
wandered died on the hfth Black
friday of his lfe-
yr4 plotted his wife's death on tne
Arst Black Friday. hiring the ragged
stra~r.r- in Chicago's loop to stage
a fake holdup that he might be nero
~ his wife's eyes On the next night
- Y,,,. 1920. the poor boob follow
Cd Wanderer and his wife home from
q theater-
RrDDLES ELS WIFE
T, che hallway Of their home, Wan
derer suddenly whipped out two auto
r,st,ca and blazed away. From one
gun he hred seven shots at his VIE
while with the other he fred ike
run,h.r At the poor boob" The wife.
struck twice died ar hour later ana
TIE poor boob" with Shree wounds
died that night in a hospital wan
derer was a hero for day
n, his second Black Friday. a week
later police learned that the gun
zunposed to have been used BY the
moor boob" had been purchased or
.rinal1v by Wanderers cousin They
also learned that Wanderers Wife had
withdrawn $500 from a bank two
weeks rreviously A ''love affair OF
the army officer was also unearthed.
MAKES IT CONFESSIONS
week later, on the thlrd BLACK
Friday. wanderer was arrested and
charged with murder. He made sew
enteen different statements but finally
confessed the revolving crime.
"I hated married life" he said.
wanted to get back in the army. 1t
vas 50 free and easy there. It was
the life for me Besides. my wife was
about to become a mother and I hated
her for that killed the boob to
keep his mouth shut
He was tried first for his wifes
murder and I'm October. last year. he
was convicted but sentenced to but
TWENTY-FIVE years In the penitentiary
The light penalty aroused Storm of
protest and Wanderer was brought
back from Joliet to go on trial for the
poor boobs' murder.
HIS FOURTH BLACK FRIDAY
The spirit OF that bundle of dirty
rags" which had laid unclaimed for
months in the morgue, arose from it's
Potter's Field greve to demand an
eye for an eye" Wanderer was con-
victed of first degree murder and on
his fourth Black Friday, April 10. he
was sentenced to death
a desperate effort was Immediately |
launched to save him from the gall
lows. a jury found him sane after a