The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
DOCTOR
IS S0UGHT IN
R0BB CASE
District Attorney Orders Arrest
Of Nurse Once Employed
BY Accused.

EAST CAMBRIDGE, Mass,
Sept. rs. Abandoning the search
for the missing head and pelyis
of Mrs. Alice M. WOlschendorf,
Tyngsboro suitcase victim, for
whose murder DR.. William M.
Robb is to stand trial Monday
next, District Attorney X. Read
ing late yesterday ordered the
entire State police force TO locate
q missing woman physician, al
legged to be an accomplice Of the
Boston physician.
| This woman suspect has an
office not great distance from
i DR.. Robb's apartments at 353
Massachusetts avenue.
Orders Arrest Of Nurse.
District Attorney Reading also or
dered the arrest OF a nurse wTo
was in the employ Of DR.. Robb
recently. This woman was to have
kept an appointment at Mr. Read
ling's office on Monday, bat made
no appearance. She will be held as
q material witness.
The district attorney sprang a
surprise last night when he ordered
| the dead woman's husband, her
brother, Kenneth Orcutt, and his
wife, Of Philadelphia; another
brother, Charles B. circuit, 81
Somerville, and the dead woman's
son, to his office.
Each in turn was drilled by the
district attorney and his assistants,
]. and secrets OF the victim were laid
bare by her relatives In final ef-
i fort to catch up the strings that
will eventually prove to jury just
how the murdered woman died.
/ The district attorney went intn
i every detail regarding the dead
woman's statements and actions uf
the last few days before she left
home to 90 to the office Of DIR.
/ Robb. He probed deeply into the
past relations Of the woman lnd
| Bowen. and forced the husband to
tell secrets he has kept stored
i within his breast for months.
i Through the father they learned
what the mother had told her
i daughters Of her illness. Every
statement she made relative to her
/ illness, while talking with her, daugn.
tiers, was repeated by the husband
and taken down by the official
stenogfapher.
Conversations IN which Mrs.
i Wolschendorf mentioned the names
/ Of physicians she had either seen
or contemplated seeing. regarding
her physical condition were sought
The hours OF Mrs, WoIschen.
/ DORIS departures from her home fol
| weeks previous to her disappear.
ance also were learned.
Husband Weeps.
With tears streaming down hil
cheeks at times. the husband told
police what he knew Of the alleged
alliance between his dead wife and
| the man who he charges won heI
love from him.
Police questioned him closely re
! gardihg what he knew of the
movements of his wife on the day
she left for the office OF DR.. Robb
The son was with his mother, thai
day, according to his story. JUS
/ where the. son left his mother
whose office he watched her enter
and what she told him when Shit
left, also were gone into.
Great activity and an atmosphere
OF suppressed excitement prevailed
at the offices Of the police and 81
the district attorney long after thu
midnight hour.
bearing a Pennsylvania number
| plate drew up on one of the side
streets leading to the courthouse
In 1t were a middle aged man and
4 woman.
| State Detective Ferrari hastenet
| from the district attorneys office
and intercepted the auto some dis
lance from the courthouse. HI
struggled the couple through a real
entrance to the district attorney
office, where they were closetet
for some time before their preseTic,
became known to investigators.
/ Later it was announced that TIT
couple were Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
circuit, of Philadelphia. the forme
a brother of Mrs. Wolschendorf
circuit is the r. K b. circuit, VIII,
wired from 1926 Henry street, De
troit, to the Boston police requssr
ing tfull details be sent him G.
the death OF Mrs. Wolschendorf
Their coming was evidently ex
pected, as was shown by Detecc
tive Ferrari's haste to meet then
| oltO get JnGHl INTO NdT. nodQlnS
office before they had been ques
toned by newspaper men.
4 When they emerged they were
accompanied by State police. They
re-entered their auto and, escorted
by State police, motpred to g
| Huntington avenue address where
the State police are understood tc
have discovered some new evi
dence.
Evidence Kept Secret.
Just what the Philadelphia Or
cults revealed to Mr.. Reading he
refused to state. 1t was pointed
out in this connection that it was
to Philadelphia DIR. Robb said he
had gone on a pleasure trip Sep
TENDER 6, while he was being sought
for arrest, while the district at
torney's office has steadfaStly main
tanned it's belief that the accused
physician was at Washington In
consultation with his brother, Jus
tice Charles H. Robb. of the Dis
trict of Columbia Court of Appeals
Although 1t was expected Judge
Frederick j. Mcleod would make
his decision on the motions of At
tQrney John p. Feeney yesterday
this was not done. The judge will
decide this afternoon. Attorney
Feeney asked that the evidence
heard by the grand jury which re
turned the indictment against DR.
William M. Robb, charging the
physician with first degree murder
in connection with Mrs. Wolschen