The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-11-23
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Husband Arrested
In Mystery Death

incoming train from the southwest
Thursday but he was not found and
1t was reported he had fled into KAN
SaS.
Newspaper Quotes Sister
The Evening American quoted an
unnamed attorney as stating: DIR.
Catherine Wynekoop SISTER Of Earle)
has positive information that her
brother spent the night Of the murder
in Chicago" This, however. con-
flicted with statements by Stanley
Young, companion of young Wyne-
koop, who said they drove to Kansas
City Tuesday morning.
Chief Schoemaker, after receiving
reports from special investigators as
signed to the case, said:
these statements are pretty seri-
Gus, but am sure we are on the
right track. The solution OF the MUIR
der, am sure, lies between the
mother and the missing husband"
Chief Shoemaker said the report
OF the under taker also conflicted with
q statement by DR.. Wynkoop that the
victim was not present for dinner the
night Of the murder.
"Our investigation" he said, shows
that the murder was committed after
dinner, which time has been set at
6 o'clock. It may have happened
Immediately after, or even an hour or
so later.
mo rigor. morris had set In when
Ahern, the undertaken who called
the police. saw the body. This Is
contrary to DR.. Wynekoop's statement
that the neck had stiffened when she
found the body. It takes, at the
minimum, two hours for rigor morris
to set in. II that was the case and
the body was still limp, as We have
determined, when the police came at
10 o'clock, it is wholly possible that
Rheta could have been still alive at
7::30 or 8 o'clock that night
Sent Servant Out
It was about 1880 o'clock that DR..
Wynekoop sent Miss Hennessey to the
corner drug store for package Of
drug she SAID she often used to in
duce restful sleep.
Capt. John Siege, In charge at the
Fillmore street police station, said
investigators now are searching for
evidence Of the disposal Of three
quarts Of blood the coroner's chemist
reported had been lost from the slain
girls body.
"Her left lung was filled with
blood" Siege said, but she had lost
50 much more that it must have been
cleaned up" There was bloodstain
on q bedspread in the girls room,
the police captain said. and an abra-
sion on one leg indicated she might
have been killed upstairs and dragged
down to the operating room after
ward.
In addition to a 5000 life insur-
ance policy taken out by DR.. Wyne-
koop on her daughter -in-law Nov. Il.
another policy for $1,000 also carrying
a double indemnity, was found Thurs
day. The Commercial Life Insurance
company informed Coroner Frank
Walsh it had issued the policy Nov.
2, with Earle Wynekoop and his sis
ter Catherine as beneficiaries.
DR.. Wynekoop herself was benefici-
airy OF the 5000 policy on the life
of the slain woman.
Offer Two Theories
Police said they ARE studying two
possible reconstructions Of the MUIR
der. In the first we suppose that the
young woman was induced to diMobe
and get on the operating table. While
she was in that position the slayer
placed her under an anesthetic, turn
ed her half way on her face and then
fired q bullet into her back"
"Our other theory is that the young
woman was seized in some other room
Of the house, chlorofor1n Or ether
mask was thrust over her face, and
then, while unconscious. she was
carried or dragged down to the base
ment."
An examination Of the woman's
body, the captain said, revealed small
abrasion on the left knee. which he
thought Indicated she might have been
dragged. There was : scatch on each
cheek which the investigator iy1dicat-
ed he believed might have been caused
4 By On anaeethetic mask. 4 chloeoform
mask was reported found BY the po-
lice n the surgery.