The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-11-27
MURDER CONFESSION
IS REPUDIATED BY
WOMAN PHYSICIAN
Says Words Were Put in Her
Mouth by Policeman, A.
torney Declares
SON Is FORMALLY ACCUSED
Police Spurn Confession by
Youth, Made in Effort to
Save His Mother

Chicago, Nov. 27.-tP-Dr. Alice l.
Wynekoop, through her attorney,
Monday repudiated her confession
that she shot her daughter law AZ
ter chloroform had made the girl
senseless.
1.-THE words were put into my mouth
by those policemen" Attorney Frank
Tyrell quoted the 62-year -old woman
as saying.
Her son, Earle. was formally
charged with helping to plot the
murder Of his wife, Rheta. and was
locked up In the county jail.
Earle Wynekoop was arraigned In
felony court Monday on charge Of
accessory before the fact In the MUIR
der Of his wife.
The charge was substituted for the
formal murder charge lodged satur-
day against the youth, whose "confes-
sion" that he killed the girl was
spurned by the police as an effort tc
save his mother from conviction. DR.
Alice Wynekoop is being held 70,
grand jury action on murder charge
Held without Bail
Judge Jay A. Schiller remanded
young Wynekoop to the custody Of
police without bail pending hearing
December 4.
Hearing on habeas corpus writ was
continued by Judge Joseph B. Davic
until Friday, when similar hearing
for DIR. Alice has been set.
Assistant States Attorney Charle.
S. Dougherty said he would 60 before
the grand jury Tuesday or Wednes.
day to ask the indictment Of the
mother and her son-Dr. Wynekoor
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 al
legged purpose.
This course Of action was an
nounced after the police said that
the alibi Earle sought to destroy "to
save my mother from the electric
chair" had been re-established.
The alibi-that Earle was en- route
to the southwest by automobile with
Stanley Young at the time Rheta died
IN an operating table In the basement
surgery Of his mother. DR.. Alice
Wynekoop-was found to be sound,
the police said. establishing that a
confession Earle made and later re-
tracted. was untrue.
Wanted TO Save Mother
II wanted to save my mother from
The electric chair" Earle was quoted
as having said.
The alibi was but one Of several de-
velopments In the most sensational
death mystery Chicago has had since
the thrill murder" OF Bobby Franks
by Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold
university students now serving life
sentences in the state prison at Joliet
One was the circulation Of q news
paper report-which was quickly de-
MED by Prosecutor Dougherty-that
Dr. Wynekoop had made q new com
fession.' admitting she killed Rheta
to free her son OF loveless marriage
tie.
Another development was an an
1ouncement by Dougherty that Earle
had shown him several blank car
ridges for the pistol with which
Rheta or her body was shot, which
explained, Dougherty said, one Of the
most puzzling angles OF the case-the
fact that there was only one bullet
wound although three exploded shells
We're found.
!, A statement attributed to DR.
Wynekoop, supplementing her original
confession" was made public by Po-
Ice Captain John Siege. In 1t she
was represented as saying the reason
she was named beneficiary In an In
aurance policy taken out on the
Young woman was because Rheta her
self had suggested 1t.