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DR.. Wynekoop and members OF
her household, meanwhile, were
virtual prisoners in the strange
house, scene of the bizarre
Staying.
Police on guard and members
Of the family we're forbidden to
20 into the basement medical
quarters, where the victims body
was discovered.
9, Discovery of blood-stained blan-
kets and the chloroform mask
indicated, Captain Siege said,
that the girl wife had been muir
dered by someone in whom she
had placed complete confidence.
Mrs. Wynkoop had presumably
G1isrobed on the operating table, as
though for medical treatment, had
the anaeSthetic applied to her
face, and then was shot through
the heart while under the effects
Of ether, Siege asserted.
Had $4,000 Life Insurance
DR.. Wynekoop insisted she had
not been informed that her daugh-
ter-in-law's life was insured for
$4,000, double indemnity, although
DR.. Wynekoop was the beneficiary.
Disclosure of the insurance policy
was made at the inquest after the
woman physician stated that her
sons wife was Aot insured.
Investigation disclosed tn t
four deaths have occurred in the
strange Wynekoop household in
the last four years.
DR.. Frank Wynekoop, the woman
physicians husband, died sudden
y in January 1929.
Next to die was an adopted
daughter, Mary Louise, who sue
culmbed last March.
Miss Catherine Porter, spin
Ster.patient whom DR.. Alice Wyne-
koop had been treating, died later.
She and the woman physician
had shared a $4,000 bank account.
Then came the death of the
85.year-old father of Miss Enid
Hennessey, local school teacher.
Both were residents of the house.
Throughout the questioning DR..
Wynekoop maintained her ex-
planation that a robber had en-.
tered her office-residence during
her absence and after ransaGking
her desk, had tried to assault her
daughter-in-law.
Owned Death Pistol
"A 80 caliber pistol owned by
4IaA IT,AToooIo TNhEcinioVN firoJ tho
death shot into Mrs. Wynekoop's
back.
Burns and scratches about the
young murder victims mouth in
dicated that an aneSthetic had
been forcibly applied while the
girl lay nude on the operating
table. Thomas L. Dwyer, coroner's
physician, reported.
Captain Siege said:
'"The robbery story cannot be
true. &.
every circumstance indicates
that the girl was killed by some
one in whom she had complete
confidence. She had taken off
her clothes, probably as she sat
ON the operating table, and
dropped them at her feet. She
had then lain back as if sub
uniting to an examination.
'While she was in that posi-
ton, apparently, the killer placed
Her under an anaesthetic.
turned her halfway on her face,
and fired the shot into her
back.
'FinaIIy the killer tried to
stop the flow Of blood from her
mouth, and perceiving she was
dead, wrapped the body in
blanket"
Detained with DR.. Wynekoop
were Miss Hennessey, the school
teacher, and John Van Pelt. a
handyman who roomed in the
basement of the West Side man
sion.
Miss Hennessey was the only
other occupant of the house Wher
Dr.. Wynekoop made her grueSome
discovery in the basement office
operating room.
Captain Siege declared that
Earle Wynekoop's recent move
ments were not entirely explained
.Wynekoop and a companion,
Stanley Young, had returned here
from the West recently and had
been here at least until late
Thursday morning, 10 hours be-
fore the murder occurred.
Mystery Grows Deeper
Mystery piled on mystery as
the investigation progressed in
the weird mansion with its many
disused rooms, and it's garage
with secret panels.
Only II drops Of the victims
blood were accounted for, al
though a coroner'S examination
disclosed she had lost seVera
pints of fluid.
Examination of the girls stom
aeh disclosed that she had eater
a late afternoon or evening meal
but DR.. Wynekoop testified she
and Miss HenneSSey had eater
their evening meal without thl
Young wife, who, according tt
DR.. Wynekoop'S story at the in
quest, had been missing when thu
physician returned about 4 p. m
ffom a shopping trip.
Upon discovering the dead body
OF her daughter-in,law, DR.. Wyne
koop said, she did not inform
Miss Hennessey because it nigh
disturb her Sleep"
Dr.. Catherine Wynekoop, "a
year-old daughter Of the man
toms owHer, informed Miss Hen