The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-24
Mother Confessed To
 The Chicago Murder
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having proposed marriage last Fri day. four days before the body of his auburn-haired wife was found
 In the operating room of his
 mother.
 Captain Duffy said wynekoop expressed a desire to talk" in or-
 der to "save one very dear to me" pr Wynekoop was brought this morning from central police sta- ton where she was taken after
 hours questioning last night. Wyne- koop, who previously had admitted keeping company with other wo- men and said he very seldom was at home, was taken into custody yesterday upon his return from Kansas City. He asserted he was
 near Peoria, III, at about the time police believe his wife was shot to
 death.
 The second woman with whom Wynekoop admitted. keeping com- pany, was Priscilla Wittl, auburn haired worlds fair employe, who
 was questioned for several hours
 and released to-day. She said young Wynekoop spent the evening
 prior to the day Mrs Wynekoop
 was murdered with her.
 Both Red.Haired
 Miss Wittl and the slain wife
 were both 23 years old and both
 were red-haired. Miss McHale,
 last discovered inamorata of the Wynekoop scion, is 22 years old
 and a blonde. Police who questioned the wo-
 man physician and her son
 throughout the night subjected them to a "lie detector" test, the
 results of which were not an- nounced.
 pr Wynekoop was arrested and
 held without bail on orders of Cor
 oner Frank J. Walsh, who said a
 chemical analysis of the slain wo-
 mans body revealed sufficient
 chloroform to anaesthetize her completely. He expressed the opinion she had been chloroformed
 and then shot to death.
 Walsh asked for the arrest of Dr
 Wynekoop flor murder" and said he planned to ask that a formal
 charge of murder be placed against
 her. The announcement, however,
 was made prior to the time her son
 began his statement to police.
 Three alienists who listened to
 the questioning of the physician expressed the opinion she was medically and legally sane." The. alienists, called by Walsh,
 were Dr Harry A. Hoffman, direc- tor of the criminac psychiatry
 court clinic, Dr Charles A. Newman,
 associate professor of Northwestern
 university, and Dr John Favill, as-
 sociate professor of nervous dis
 eases at Rush Medical college. No Rest For Them Police Captain John Stege ques- toned them intermittently. T believe that solution of the murder is near" he said. "We
 may have 8 definite announcement to make later." Attorneys for
 mother and son were refused per-
 mission to see them.
 Dr Wynekoop was subjected to
 "lie detector" tests after six hours
 of continuous grilling failed to
 break down her stubborn conten- tion she knew nothing of the actual
 murder of her daughter Jaw. The tests were made by Charles Wilson, assistant professor of crim-
 inology at Northwestern university, The arrest of Dr Wynekoop was ordered by Coroner Walsh after an autopsy disclosed chloroform suffi- cient to anaesthetize the 23-year- old auburn-haired wife. She was shot to death on the operating table in the home of her physician mother-in-law while wholly uncon. scious from the anaesthetic, Walsh said.
 Events in the strange murder in the old red-front brick mansion on
 sedate West Monroe street moved swiftly as police questioned mem. bers of the family. Earle Wyne- koop, confessed philander was taken into custody on his return from Kansas City.
 He admitted spending the night prior to the staying of his young wife in the company of Priscilla Wittl, also auburn haired, but claimed he was enroute to Kansas City by automobile with a friend al
 the time his wife was shot to death
 late Tuesday. Police were check
 ing his movements.
 Mother Knew of Love Wynekoop revealed his mother was aware of his infatuation for
 Miss Wittl and knew that he was keeping company with her, but that his wife did not. He told po- lice he had not seen his wife for two weeks.
 Stege ordered the arrest of Dr Wynekoop because, he said. the discovery the slain woman was killed while under the influence of chloroform tended to explode the theory advanced by members of the family that she was shot by a burglar whom she may have sur prised in the physicians office, ad-
 joining the operating room.
 Every indication in the case points to Dr Wynekoop. She is un- able to satisfactorily explain her movements at about the time her daughter-in-law was killed. I am not at all satisfied with her story" he said.
 A dispute for possession of the slain woman's body was won by her father, B. H. Gardner. whole sale flour and salt dealer of Indian apolis. Dr Wynekoop and Earl Wynekoop at first opposed the re- quest of Gardner that he be per-
 mitted to return the body to In- dianapolis for burial.
 FATALLY INJURED Stratford, Conn, November 24-
 (UP) - Crushed against the rear
 of his truck by another truck.
 Richard Curtiss, 32, Nichols, was
 injured fatally late yesterday.