The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-12

Voluntarily DiscIoses Location
of Long Sought Parts Of
Victims Body.

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. IA
sensation occurred late yesterday
afternoon at the East Cambridge
court house when District Attor-
ney Arthur K. Reading, address
ing Judge Sisk in the Middlesex
superior criminal court, declared
that DR.. William M. Robb, promi-
nent Boston physician, about to be
sentenced for an illegal operation
on Mrs. Alice Wolschendorf, had
pointed out the place where the
head and pelvis of the "suit case"
victim were buried.
His Own Suggestion.
This morning before z o'clock.
DR.. Robb. accompanied by his
counsel, the sheriff, and State po-
lice. at DR.. Robb's own suggestion,
visited Concord, and Dr. Robb point
ed out the places where he had
flirfed the victims head and pelvis;
the head was buried in one place
and the pelvis in another" an
bounced the district attorney.
This statement ended q search
which has been going on ever since
last September for the rest OF the
body, parts OF which were found
at that time in the Merrimac river
IN two suitcases.
Shortly after their discovery, DIR.
Robb was arrested for first degree
murder. He ridiculed the charges
aad boasted tina. he would put the
accusing authorities In their proper
place. He denied knowing DIR.
DaIva Swope, prominent Brockton
physician and family doctor Of the
Wolgchendorfs, accused as Access
sorry In the crime, declaring that
he had never seen the co-defendant
until meeting him In the prisoners
dock.
Confessed Recently.
A few days ago DIR. Roob con-
fessed to illegal surgery, and plead
ed guilty before Judge Sisk. Late
yesterday DR.. Rohb, nattily dressed
in q gray overcoat and a gray
Fedora hat, was brought in and
placed In the prisoners cage. A
few moments later the same justice
sentenced him to not more than
seven and not less than nve years
at hard labor in State prison, the
first day to be in solitary confine.
ment.
An hour later, broken man, DIR.
Robb was weeping in the East
Cambridge jail. Last night he was
whisked to the State prison at
Charles Town.
For five years he win be able to
review the moment In his little Back
Bay office when he leaned over the
stiil form of Alice Wolschendorf on
his operating table and listened In
vain for heart beat.
The buxom woman OF forty-three
vaars. four times q mother and |
senarated from her husband. had |
come to him in the misery OF an en- |
barrassing predicament.
ignoring the law, the man once |
driven from New Hampshire for the |
same crime OF illegal surgery. bent |
his efforts to relieve Alice Wolschen-
dorf from the shame she feared.
His Efforts Failed.
It failed and there followed one of
those amazing crime mysteries which |
give newspapers something to get
excited over.
DIR. Robb, frantic, cut up his
victim. In two automobile suitcases
he stuffed limbs and arms tossed
them into the Merrtmac river. The
river gave up its gruesome burden.
For almost two weeks police
acurried about endeavoring to identi-
fy the victim. 1t was q mystery
with a thousand thrills.
Solved. IT brought DIR. Robb behind
the bars. charged with first degree
murder. He confessed. The indict-
ment was quashed and g. new one
neutrality-suspicious. Illegal surgery.
,Robb surrendered some weeks
back, a man with amazing self as
surance.
Nervous and Detected.
Yesterday in the prisoners cage
he sat nervous and detected. He
peered at newspaper men. Sentence
pronounced, he shuffled from the
courtroom manacled to sheriffs.
Maybe he felt alone when he