The Washington times., 1923-12-13
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Physician DiscIoses Where He
Hid Part Of Victims
Remains

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. IA
sensation occurred late yesterday
afternoon at the East Cambridge
court house when District Attor-
ney Arthur X. Reading, address
ing Judge Sisk in the Middlesex
superior criminal court, declared
that DR.. William NJ. 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 o'clock,
DR.. Robb. accompanied by his
counsel, the sheriff, and State po-
lice, at DR.. Robb's own suggestion.
visited Concord, and DIR. Robb point
ed out the places where he had
Hurled 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 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
AID boasted thai he would put the
accusing authorities in their proper
place. He denied knowing DR..
Dalva Swope, prominent Brockton
physician and family doctor Of the
Wolschendorfs, accused as acces.
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 age DR.. Robb con
fessed to illegal surgery, and plead
yesterday DIR. Robb, nattily dressed
in a 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 five years
at hard labor in State prison, the
first day to be in solitary confine'
ment.
An hour later, broken man, DR.
Robb was weeping in the East
Cambridge jail Last night he was
whisked to the State prison al
Charles Town.
For five years he will be able to
review the moment in his little Back
Bay office when he leaned over the
still form of Alice Wolschendorf on
his operating table and listened in
vain for heart beat.
The buxom woman of forty-three
years, four times a mother and
separated from her husband, had
come to him in the misery of an en-
barrassing predicament.
Ignoring the law, the manHonce
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.
DR.. Robb, frantic, cut up his
victim. In two automobile suitcases
he stuffed limbs and arms tossed
them into the Merrimac river. The
river gave up its gruesome burden.
For almost two weeks police
scurried about endeavoring to identi-
fy the victim. 1t was a mystery
with a thousand thrills.
Solved, it brought DR.. Robb behind
the bars, charged with first degree
murder. He confessed. The indlct.
ment was quashed and a new one
reached-practicing illegal surgery.
Robb surrendered some weeks
back, man with amazing self as
surance.
Nervous and Detected.
Yesterday In the prisoners cage
ne 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
reached the Jail and cried sc
pitifully. The man who had oper
ated a sporty Stutz automobile sc
Jaunt1ly may have felt that the
world had turned it's back upor
him for good.
1t was the second time he hat
wept in Jail. There at noon nj!
Wife and sister had kissed hin
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