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our household for four years. If
mother Is as clever as police
claim she is, don't you think she
would have done a cleverer job
than this?
"And If it was a prearranged
affair, like they are trying to
make out, why would mother
leave the gun there, when she
knew it could be readily proved
to be our own gun? II the gun
wasn't there, it would make 1t
appear a whole lot like the work
of a rObber."
Kept From Funeral
Earle then switched to his slain
young wife, whose almost nude
body was found on DR.. Wyne-
koop's basement operating table
late Tuesday evening. She had
been shot from the back through
the heart. He said:
'Do you know, I didn't even
get to attend the services for
my dead wife? I wanted to go,
but they wouldn't let me. 1
didn't even get to see her ex-
Cept for a few seconds at the
undertaking parlOr. when I first
came back from Kansas City"
A reporter reminded Earle that
anything he held back, anything
he attempted to shield, might be
construed as against him, and
then asked him to explain his
meeting with his mother at Sixty
seventh Street and Kedzie Avenue
last Monday afternoon, the day be-
fore the Staying. Earle declared
vehemently:
"Mother had heard that IL /
didn't get down on that job
soon, the job would be in
Jeopardy. That was the only
reason she met me and that
was the only thing we talked
abOut-my job.
''My mother is absolutely
innocent"
Says Girls Are Liars
And his Worlds Fair girls,
pretty Priscilla Whittl and Mar
garet McHale, who told of his
having made love to them and
then proposed
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He denied, too, that he, told po-
lice his wife was unhealthy and
classified police in general as
''lars." He said:
'That statement that Cap
tain Duffy gave out yesterday
is not true about me saying
my wife had tuberculosis: that
she put drugs in our food at
home. The police are giving
out pack Of lies.
I'm going to tell the court
just what the police are doing
to me. to my mother and to
my family"
He AbsOlves Teacher
When told that Miss Enid Hen
91essey, school teacher who lived
ut the musty old Wynekoop man.
sion on West Monroe Street, had
been taken from the home early
today by detectives, Earle laughed
and said:
81 suppose the police will
have her in this, too. before
they get through"
Questioned about the insurance
policy on his wife naming him as
one Of the beneficiaries, he said:
II don't know a damned
thing about that and never
heard about it until I read Of
1T in the newspapers"
Earle scoffed at the lie detec-
tor and declared that he had told
deliberate untruths to test it and
1t had erred. He said:
"The human body isn't me-
chaniCal enough for anything
like that. When they put it on
me they told me the needle
would jump if lied. When
they first questioned me I told
the truth and the needle never
WaVered.
OUTSIDE JOB, SAYS HE
"Then, when they started
asking me questions about in
consequential things, deliber-
ately lied and that needle kept
in just as straight a line as it
did when I told the truth.
'NO one in our house had
anything whatever to do with
that murder. It was strictly an
outside job.
"The only thing that is true
In mothers entire statement is
that Rheta used to 20 down
stairs frequently, disrObe, and
weigh herself. The rest is a
pack of lies, told by my mother
to save me because she thought
/ was in danger"
Earle then refused to have his
picture taken behind the cell bars.
He began to prepare for appear.
ance shortly at the States attor.
ney's office for further question
ing as authorities sought what
they termed the real lowdown'
in the mysterious killing of pretty
Rheta.
Still the cool. well-poised ply
Sician. DR.. Wynekoop stood by
her confession" as she faced
another ordeal Of questioning in
the killing Of her pretty daughter
in-law. . ...
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