Evening star., 1933-11-24
WOMAN PHYSICIAN
ADMITS MURDER
fearful Pleas of Son Break
Calm Denial of Dr..
Wynekoop.
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her clothing. I went down there with
her. When she had removed her cloth
ing. told her to get up on the table
and let me examine her side.
"She got on the table and I got a
bottle of chloroform and began mas
saying her side with it. Since this par
ticular portion of her body was sensitive
to pain. suggested that she take
enough chloroform to deaden her senses.
This she agreed to do.
Il continued maSSaging her side for
about 25 minutes. At the end of this
period 1 noticed that she seemed to be
passing out. After hasty examination
I decided the girl was dead. l was
stunned. My entire past and future
flashed before me. I realized my career
was at stake.
Remembers Gun.
Suddenly. I remembered there was
a gun in the room In flash I de-
cided to make it appear as though the
girl had been murdered in robbery.
Selling the gun from the drawer,
held the muzzle within five inches OF
her skin, and pressed the trigger.
When the shot was fired, l nearly
tainted from the sudden noise. I can't
explain why I did it other than the fact
I was terror stricken to discover that
Rheta had died from the chloroform.
I'm sorry.
When I recovered my senses real
ized that something would have to be
done. l placed the gun near Rhetas
head and ran and got a blanket from
another room in the basement, using it
to wrap the body
After l had wrapped the body up /
started to run upstairs. Suddenly my
mind cleared, and 1 thought l could
make the whole thing look like rob-
berry. l went back and wiped the fin
gerprints off the gun and opened the
basement door to make it look as
though some one had come in that way.
Goes for Walk.
Then went into the Office and stole
my own S6 out of the desk. Afterward
I went upstairs and got my coat and
hat and left the house. Going over
to Madison street. 1 walked up and
down for long time; it seemed like
hours.
Says They Were Alone.
Capt. Siege asked her at that time
who was in the house at the time of
the killing, and she replied:
mo one. The house was empty ex-
cept for Rheta and me-
Dr. WynekCOp UIlen asked CIle ponce
captain for permission to tell the story
to her family herself, saying: Il don't
want the police to break the news to
them"
Siege refused, however, to let her see
her son Earle, husband of the dead
woman, because he was being held in
close custody.
During the confession Dr. Wynekoop
broke down and cried for the first time.
Police said her tears ended the great
est exhibition of control they ever had
witnessed
A waste basket containing absorbent
pads the woman physician allegedly
had used to sop up blood from the
wound was one of the final bits OF eW-
dence that resulted in the statement.
Blood Stains Found.
Siege said he had found a blood
stained blanket in the house and had
concealed this discovery from DR.. Alice.
Capt. Siege asserted that the large
amount of blood soaked in the blanket
led him to disbelieve that Rheta had
been chloroformed before she was shot
and that physicians had sustained his
theory.
When Burdine H Gardner, father OF
the slain woman. was informed OF the
mother -in-law's statement he said:
All 1 can say is, give hel tie limit"
The coroner's inquest was reconvened
at l 80 pm. to hear the new evidence.
The confession was reported to have