Evening star., 1933-11-26
WYNEKOOP STORY
OF DEATHSCOUTED
Confession Called Fantastic
Effort to Save Mother in
Weird Killing.
Continued From First Page.)

Joseph SABBATH that he be booked or re-
leased by pm. to satisfy an appli-
cation for a harbeas corpus writ in
Earle's behalf. Charles S. Dougherty.
ace of the county prosecuting staff.
acknowledged after a morning with the
youth that he had no new evidence
against him.
Mother Sticks to Story.
DIR. Alice, blowing kiss to her son
across the court room, was led away
to her county Jail cell still standing
by the confession her son had called
"A pack of lies to save me-"
That confession was no confession
of murder or of homicide, but state
ment that her sons wife died Of an
overdose of chloroform given to ease
pain, and that she shot, afterwards, to
cover the professional mistake. She
said she allowed the young woman to
hold the chloroform and tnhale 1t.
Chief point at issue was the exact
cause Of death.
DR.. Clarence Muehlberger, coroner $
chemist, reported that analysis OF the
girls body disclosed SUFFICIENT chloro-
form had been administered to cause
death before the bullet was fired. A
deputy coroner said DR.. Muehlberger
made an oral report, however, that
blood in the stomach and blood filling
the left lung evidently came from the
bullet wound. indicative that she was
still alive when shot.
Accepts Shooting Cause.
The coroner's jury, charging DR..
Alice with murder, had accepted the
finding of DR.. Thomas L. Dwyer that:
In my opinion the cause Of death was
a gunshot wound, hemorrhage and
shock"
Lieut.. Sam Peterson, assembling the
evidence for the States attorney, ex-
hibited a clotted sheet that had COW
cred the body. pointing to the indica-
tions Of strong heart action after the
pistol shot. The wet towel found near
the head, he said, may have been used
to prevent escape Of the fumes OF
from the furnace of the Wynekoop
house was thought to have been a
sponge used to administer the an
esthetic.
The officer showed the blood-stained
pillow on which the dying girls head
had rested. =, .,
"She even bled from the mouth, !"
Peterson said. The doctors have told
us that such action does not take place
In a dead person"
Prosecutor Dougherty strove to shake
the stories of Dr. Alice and her son
that their meeting Monday night, un-
known to Rheta, was merely to discuss
Earle's prospects Of job.
Two Motives Seen.
I am convinced the assistant
States attorney declared, that DR..
Wynekoop plotted with her son, Earle,
to remove the girl from the scene.
There. were two motives. The first was
Earle's dissatisfaction with his married
life. The second motive. We believe,
was the insurance policies"
DR.. Alice had paid the premiums on
two new policies for $4,000 and 81 600
on Rheta's life, herself the beneficiary
of the first and Earle and his sister, DR.:
Catherine Wynekoop, beneflciaries OF
the second.
Capt. Thomas Duffy announced that
Earle had admitted he purchased new
box Of cartridges for his mothers pistol
on November II, and had taken her into
the garage to instruct her how to fire 1t.
DR.. Alice was almost jaunty as she
crossed the jailyard to be locked in
cell, her home until next Friday, when
a habeas corpus writ is returnable.
Asks Ride in Patrol.
"Oh, I want TO 60 In q patrol" she
remarked, pouting, to her guard as ne
led her from the criminal court room.
II love the good old wagon. 1t knocks
you this way and that and is a gym.
nasium and transportation all in one"
She was placed In hospital quarters,
the matron asserting she was near ex-
haustion. DR.. Alice had refused since
Tuesday night to take more than clear
coffee, tea and occasionally cookies. Her
daughter, Dr. Catherine, and Attorney
Frank Tyrren termed her confession"
the result of exhaustion and suggestion
by stupid policemen"