Evening star., 1933-11-27
CHARGE
HOLDS WYNEKOOP
Husband Is Arraigned on New
Count After Confession
Is Spurned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Ill, November 27.-Earle
Wynekoop was arraigned in Felony
Court today on a charge of accessory
before the fact in the Staying Of his
wife, Rheta.
The charge was substituted for the
formal murder charge lodged Saturday
against the youth. whose confession"
that he killed the girl was spurned
by the police as an effort to save his
mother from conviction. DR.. Alice
Wynekoop was held for grand jury
action on a murder charge.
Judge Jay A Schiller remanded young
Wynekoop to the custody of police with
out bail pending q hearing December a.
Hearing on a habeas corpus writ for
Earle was continued by Judge Joseph
B. David until Friday when a similar
hearing for DR.. Alice has been set.
Assistant States Attorney Charles S.
Dougherty said he would go before the
grand jury tomorrow or Wednesday to
ask the indictment of the mother and
her son-Dr Wynekoop On a charge
that she fired the pistol bullet the State
contends killed Rheta and Earle on the
allegation he had advance knowledge
of the doctors alleged purpose.
Wanted to Save Mother.
The alibi-that Earle was en- route
to the Southwest by automobile with
Stanley Young at the time Rheta died
on an operating table in the basement
surgery of his mother, DR.. Alice Wyne-
koop-was found TO be sound the police
said, establishing that a confession"
Earle made and later retracted, was
untrue.
I wanted to save my mother from
the electric chair Earle was quoted
as having said.
Two attendants at a filling station
at Lockport Ill, Harry Hodges and
Fred Capaul, re-eStablished the alibl
when they identified young Wynekcop
and his travelling companion as the men
who drove up to their place last Tues
day-the day Rheta met death-with
an automobile that had blowout in
rear tire. Wynekoop and Young were
taken to Lockport yesterday.
We'll. where do we go from here"
Young asked the officers. If you want
more proof that his story c'the con-
fession'D was a hoax, we can go on
down to Peoria where he filed a tele-
gram to his mother from a telephone
booth or to Quincy. where I'm sure 1
can find the waitress who served us
each a 70-cent meal
New Confession Denied.
The alibl angle was but one of sew
eral developments IN the most sensa-
tional death mystery Chicago has had
since the thrill murder" of Bobby
Franks by Richard Loeb and Nathan
Leopold, university students now SER
wing life in the state prison at Joliet
One was the circulation of a news
paper report-which was quickly de
MED by Prosecutor Dougherty-that
DR.. WynekOOp had made a new con.
fession." admitting she killed Rheta to
free her son of a loveless marriage tie.
said:
Il wish it were true but We have
no evidence that has not already been
made public. The only confession in
our hands is DR.. Wynekoop's statement
that she killed Rheta accidentally with
chloroform and fired a shot into her
lfeleSS body so the crime might be
blamed on a mythical robber."
Another development was an an
nouncement by Dougherty that Earle
had shown hum several blank car
tridges for the pistol with which Rheta
or her body was shot, which explained,
Dougherty said, one of the most puz-
zling angles of the case-the fact that
there was only one bullet wound al
though three exploded shells were found.
A statement attributed to Dr. Wyne-
koop supplementing her original CON
fession' was made public by Police Capt.
John Siege. In it she was represented
cIa
beneficiary in an insurance policy taken
out on the young woman was because
Rheta herself had suggested it.