Evening star., 1933-11-23
NET CLOSES
ON TWO IN KILLING
Officials Center Wynekoop
Inquiry on Husband and
Mother-in-laW.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO. November 23.-Chief of
Detectives william Schoemaker as
serted today that chemists and detec-
tives had turned up evidence which
practically established" that Rheta
Gardner Wynekoop was shot to death
after partaking Of Tuesday dinner at
the Wynekoop home and that "the
murder was committed by some one
in the household"
1t had been reported that DR.. Wyne-
koop found the body after dinner.
Chemical examination of the young
woman's stomach divulged undigested
food served at the meal which Dr.
Wynekoop and Miss Enid Hennessey
said they ate at 6 o'clock, the night Of
the killing, with Rheta absent.
DR.. Wynekoop and members of her
household were virtual prisoners over
night in the old mansion that was the
scene of the bizarre murder in her
surgical room. They had been re-
leased from police custody, but two
officers were stationed in the home
throughout the night.
Husband Is Arrested.
The missing widower of the 23-year-
old victim, who had eluded police who
tried to intercept him at Kansas City,
returned to Chicago this morning and
was arrested.
The young widower walked down an
alley to the rear door of his home. A
few minutes later he was hustled out
the front, minus his hat, overcoat and
suit case, and taken in a squad car to
the Fillmore street police station to be
questioned.
Wynekoop, who had been apprised OF
the sensational death of his wife while
in Kansas City yesterday. had returned
by train without being noticed by
police, who guarded every station.
He denied any knowledge of the
operating room murder.
The American quoted an unnamed
attorney as stating: DIR. Catherine
Wynekoop (Sister of Earle) has posi-
tive information that her brother spent
the night of the murder in Chicago"
This, however conflicted with state
ments by Stanley Young, companion
of young Wynekoop, who said they
drove to Kansas City Tuesday.
Chief Schoemaker, after receiving re-
ports from special investigators as
signed to the case, said:
These statements are pretty serious,
but I am sure we are on the right
track. The solution of the murder, I
am sure, lies between the mother and
the missing husband"
.Woman's Story Secuted.
Chief Schoemaker said:
mo rigor mortis had set in when
the undertaken, who called the police,
first saw the body. This is contrary
to DIR. wynekoop's statement that the
neck had Stiffened when she said she
found the body at 8 pm It takes at
the minimum two hours for rigor
mortis to set in. II that was the case
and the body was still limp, as we
at 10 o'clock, it Is wholly possible that
Rheta could have been still alive at
7:3O or o'clock that night"
It was about 7:30 o'clock that DR..
Wynekoop sent Miss Hennessey to the
corner drug store for q package OF a
drug she said she often used to induce
restful sleep.
Return Trip Cancelled.
When Wynekoop left Chicago ne was
bound by motor car with Stanley Young
to take advertising photographs in the
Arizona cleft of the Grand Canyon.
Air line officials in Kansas City reported
that he had made reservations to re-
turn from there last night, but he failed
to arrive.
Young. was taken into custody by
Kansas City police early today and
was quoted by them as saying that he
and Wynekoop had spent last Monday
and Monday night at the home of
Young's uncle, George E. q. johnson,
former Federal Judge Of Chicago, and
left for the West the next morning.
"All indications said Police Capt.
Jon Siege, point to the slayer as q
person In whom Mrs. Wynekoop had
full confidence.
I'VE are studying two possible recon-
StructionS Of the murder. In the first
we suppose that the young woman was
induced to disrobe and get on the OPP
Grating table While she was in that
position the slayer placed her under
an anesthetic, turned her half way ON
her face and then fred bullet into
her back"
aOur other theory Is that the young
woman was seized in some other room
Of the house, chlorofcrm or ether
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